No Orange Bowl Student Discount

RamblinPeck said:
Tech doesn't care about you, in a group or individually.
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Isn't that the truth.

Tech acknowledges you at $2,000 a year.
Tech will care when you start talking about $50,000 gifts.
Tech starts loving you at $200,000.

Unless you were personal friends with an admin, it is hard to feel the love after you graduate. And there have been many great admins at Tech (some great Deans of Students and student life staffers for one were there for several generations of Tech students). That said, the alumni association away tailgates have been excellent this year.

The GTAA loves you just for buying season tickets in a Tech fund area though.
 
yeah... but when you go to those schools you aren't being put through literal hell to graduate...

I feel the same way... if the school want's the stadium to be loud they should give at least a slightly discounted price because the other fans are sure not making the noise...

And I don't care if you older people are subsidizing us... we are going to subsidize the guys coming in later... Do you expect us as a student body to pay for all the new buildings while we are students too... Students have little to no income and GT grads are generally doing pretty well in that area...

At least spirit has just lowered their air fair to 49 dollars one way... sweet!!!
 
whiteboardguy said:
Iowa students are paying the same price for Orange Bowl tickets. But they didn't pay an athletic fee.

Regardless of who is to blame, the point is that students shouldn't have to pay the same as everyone else. We're the most energetic of the fans and we certainly influence the energy of the team. We're less likely to be able to afford it. And discounting our tickets should be considered an investment in future donators. Why would they want to piss us off now?
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The bowl is a bowl, it is not a regular season game or a conference championship. It is a post season exhibition between two teams and is not an NCAA sanctioned event.

Where do you think the money to subsidize your ticket is going to come from?

I don't think anyone is trying to piss you off, the only way you could feel slighted is by having the illogical view that you are "owed" a discount. You aren't owed anything and I can't see how you feel entitled in this situation. Just because a midwestern school with 50% more students and an even larger alumni base does not charge athletic fees, doesn't mean there is a need to complain about your athletic fees. As other posters have stated, it is worse for SEC students and much worse for SEC fans than we have it at GT in terms of $ donated or spent to attend football games. College football is still a business and for every debit there must be an offsetting credit or tangible benefit. This is no different than those that complain about the Tech Fund policy, it costs big $$$$ to run a successful football program. I think that is what we all want and what we all are excited about. When you graduate with a superior degree you can look back on what you had to work for, sacrifice and the resulting memories and smile.
 
I think a lot of the frustration comes from them RAISING the football ticket price from free to $36. Yeah, $36 is friggin awesome, but seeing them raise so many fees at once is frustrating. Frustration also comes from them having "student tickets" that are just like all the other tickets. I was frustrated that my family bought the ACCCG tickets through the AA, only to find out just how badly we were ripped off, thinking that buying through the AA was giving us a discount. I'm frustrated with the fact that I thought there would be student tickets for the OB, since there were for the ACCCG, and that's why I spent more money on going to the ACCCG (and not studying for finals...but that's another story), and now I can't afford the OB. This isn't whining. TWBG isn't whining either. Just venting some frustration and, like he said, explaining why the real student fans won't be at the game. We all spent our money going to the ACCCG. And not studying for finals. And Mommy and Daddy don't buy OB tickets, hotel, and travel for kids who fail finals.......not that I'm speaking from personal experience or anything......
 
TangoHotelWhiskeyGolf said:
Where do you think the money to subsidize your ticket is going to come from?

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it costs big $$$$ to run a successful football program. I think that is what we all want and what we all are excited about.
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It could come from the millions of dollars spent on the many other frivilous expenditures of a bowl game.

I can get a frickin student ticket to many pro sports and they don't even have students.

A component to an exciting/successful/recognized football program is a large and energetic student section. They should encourage that.

Neverthless, I should probably wait a few minutes before I ranted about it (I had just found out that the price was the same and wanted to blow off steam). Sorry for the whining.

You're right, I probably will end up sucking it up and buying the ticket. But it's pretty stingy on their part to not offer a student price for a student football game.
 
First off, you dont have to pay the $36...

All in all, we are having to pay for PJ... So is $36 worth it to you? I paid more for my tix and it was totally worth it...
 
GTMensLax&SoccerD1Soon! said:
First off, you dont have to pay the $36...

All in all, we are having to pay for PJ... So is $36 worth it to you? I paid more for my tix and it was totally worth it...
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Actually we are paying 36 dollars to pay for this really really dumb system the AA and SGA spent something like $200,000 on so that some students that don't go to all of the games anyways can get into the UGA game... I don't mind paying 36 dollars but lets not kid ourselves here. Talk about wasting money... Maybe we could all pay 35 dollars... not pay for a new ticketing system... and then get discounted orange bowl tickets...
 
whiteboardguy said:
Ok, I've said my peace. I'll quit whining. But when people start bitching on here about why there were hardly any students at the game or why the fans weren't loud enough, you'll know why.
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yeah, because you students would rather buy a PS3 with games than go to the Bowl game. that is all it is. you have enough money, you just choose to spend it on something else
 
This thread has a ridiculous amount of entitlement bitching in it. Students have it so unbelievably good with regards to ticket prices that it's hilarious they would be bitching about not getting a discounted ticket to the Orange Bowl. Try getting the same seats you had as students when you're graduated. Trust me, you're already ahead several thousand dollars a year with regards to sports.
 
GTCorey said:
Actually we are paying 36 dollars to pay for this really really dumb system the AA and SGA spent something like $200,000 on so that some students that don't go to all of the games anyways can get into the UGA game...
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care to explain?
 
This thread fails. It has always been this way for every school, even when we were students. I paid for my bowl game tickets. My brother paid for his Final 4 and Sweet Sixteen tickets. Quit crying, lest you be mistaken for Tim Tebow.
 
coldbeer said:
care to explain?
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Yeah the AA complained that the ticket system wasn't secure enough (mostly, young alumni were getting in on student tickets and old buzzcards).

So they spent a bunch of money investing in RFID buzzcard scanning turnstyles and an online ticket requesting system. Then they offered $36 "season tickets."

But because the $36 gets you out of camping out for tickets (like real student fans used to), a bunch of people bought them and didn't go to any game but the UGA game. There were a lot of fair weather fans there because of this.
 
whiteboardguy said:
Iowa students are paying the same price for Orange Bowl tickets. But they didn't pay an athletic fee.

Regardless of who is to blame, the point is that students shouldn't have to pay the same as everyone else. We're the most energetic of the fans and we certainly influence the energy of the team. We're less likely to be able to afford it. And discounting our tickets should be considered an investment in future donators. Why would they want to piss us off now?
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Stop complaining, geez. Your not entitled to anything. Those alumni have donated tons of money to the school, have paid seat licenses, and have been tailgating while you were picking your nose in third grade. I've been going to games for 17 years, shouldn't I get a discount? I've got kids and times are tight, so should I get a discount?

The world does not revolve around you. Pay for a ticket if you want to go, if you can't afford it then I'm sorry, figure out a way to afford it. But stop being a whiny little baby.
 
coldbeer said:
care to explain?
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http://nique.net/news/99915

The system cost us $150000, and SGA (funded through us as well) payed 35,000 and then the AA "absorbed the rest". They took away first and 10, and then charged us 35 dollars for season tickets. I'm not sure how many season tickets were sold, but it should make close to $100,000 in revenue I would expect. The difference is that their are no longer ticket vouchers and we sign-up online. It just makes it harder for fraternities to get non-student fans into the student section using vouchers from people who wouldn't go to the games anyways. So it hurt people who go to all the games anyways and made sure there was more space for people who wanted to go to one or two games a year...
 
whiteboardguy said:
Yes, they should subsidize our *ticket* (not "trip"). Isn't that what the athletic fee is supposed to do....reduce ticket costs?

I've got a job, I work as a TA. I sell my books. I do eat Ramen (though admittedly not everyday). Counting cards...no thanks. But you know what that money goes to? School.

You guys are all missing the point. Why do students pay the same as everyone else?
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Its not a home game, dumbass.
 
whiteboardguy said:
But because the $36 gets you out of camping out for tickets (like real student fans used to), a bunch of people bought them and didn't go to any game but the UGA game. There were a lot of fair weather fans there because of this.
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This is a legitimate problem and one that will never be fixed, unfortunately.
 
I agree that it's disappointing that there are no discounted prices available for students. It would be great if the Orange Bowl provided a student discount for a portion of the tickets each school is required to buy. They don't, however, and it doesn't appear that any other bowl does, either.

It would also be great if the GTAA would offer some of the tickets at a student discount. This would require them to make up the difference to the Orange Bowl. If they were operating safely in the black, then I'd be in favor of them doing this. But they're not, so I understand completely why they don't offer a discount.

Meanwhile, there is still another option for getting cheaper tickets. You can go to www.orangebowl.com right now and order tickets for $95. That will only get you upper deck seats in the end zone, but you'll still be there.
 
gth816f said:
This is a legitimate problem and one that will never be fixed, unfortunately.
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Why not?

There's got to be a better solution. Require student ticket holders to arrive early and release the seats to others if they aren't there. Or raise the price and issue an attendance refund to fully offset the price for perfect attendance. Or blackball the students' RFIDs who miss a certain number of games.

I don't think they should just accept the situation.

I never faced anything like that because we had no tickets. The first students to any game were admitted until the seats were full. You camped out for each game rather than tickets. (In practice, the only long lines were for basketball key games.)
 
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