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Ticket policy found flawed

Abstract:
Although 18,026 students will line up this week to receive their football tickets, others resent the University for not allotting more student tickets despite the new ticketing process. Students received e-mails this weekend confirming the type of ticket package they were awarded....

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Nick

posted 8/27/07 @ 10:28 AM EST

Boo hoo freshmen, looks like a lot of you will have to take part in what is becoming the unofficial tradition of paying 80 bucks for an Auburn ticket. Get in line with the alumni who are sick of seeing what should be their tickets sold off to some redneck from Jackson County who sits and writes love notes to Matt Stafford all day.
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You're dumb and here's why

posted 8/27/07 @ 12:42 PM EST

I don't want to hear what the freshman think they deserve. When I was a freshman, you either received the full schedule or none at all, and I received the latter. I would have loved to receive three tickets instead of scalping for every single game.

Quit whining. Life's tough. Wear a helmet.
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taints

posted 8/27/07 @ 12:44 PM EST

its not just freshman that got half season packages...its sophmores and juniors too
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Ken

posted 8/27/07 @ 12:52 PM EST

At Tennessee every single student that wants a ticket gets one. At Georgia money is what comes first and the Athletic Association could care less about the students. Its all about money. Maybe those in high school looking at colleges will see what the true priority here at UGA is.
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One Alum

posted 8/27/07 @ 1:54 PM EST

90%+ of UGA students have tuition and fees fully subsidized by the State. So quit complaining about how much it costs to go here. If you don't want to pay the other fees for amenities, then stay at home and go to Kennesaw or Ga Gwinnett.

There is no "right" to football tickets. Quite frankly, it's quite telling that the reports that get the most response have nothing to do with the alleged reason for why students are here in the first place.
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CoastalDawg

posted 8/27/07 @ 1:00 PM EST

With as much tuition and other fees as it costs to attend UGA now, it would seem as if football tickets would be the first thing granted to a full time student. The "new" athletic director has chosen to increase ticket prices twice since he has been in office and an increase in giving to the university is required to even be able to obtain the "right" to purchase tickets. Long time supporters of the university have had their ticket allocations cut including some involved in the actual operation of the events. Not everyone is happy, including this someone. As an alumnus of the university I have no "rights" to tickets unless I'm able to afford what is rapidly becoming exorbitant contributions. In a very few years, only wealthy people will be able to attend the games because of continuing to increase costs. Ticket prices have risen a quick 48% in the last few short years. Whether or not that is the decision of the athletic director alone is a mystery to me, but it is more than rapidly reducing the availability of tickets to many long time fans. Students shouldn't have to fight to be able to see their own home team play a game at their own home stadium. Parents, if you have a child @ UGA who wants to be able to obtain a student ticket, it's time for you to organize yourselves and find the right avenue to see that student tickets are available. Even if 30,000 tickets are alloted for students, that leaves 60,000 available at an average price of $40.00. That is still a cool $2.4 million PER GAME at the gate, not including those who maintain prestige boxes. THAT is big time football and the students and their parents who foot the bills to attend should be able to get into the games, no problems asked. If I recall, when I attended UGA it only took a student ID card, but I can't guarantee that memory is correct.
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Drew Watts

posted 8/27/07 @ 3:41 PM EST

Originally posted by

CoastalDawg

 With as much tuition and other fees as it costs to attend UGA now, it would seem as if football tickets would be the first thing granted to a full time student. The "new" athletic director has chosen to increase ticket prices twice since he has been in office and an increase in giving to the university is required to even be able to obtain the "right" to purchase tickets. Long time supporters of the university have had their ticket allocations cut including some involved in the actual operation of the events. Not everyone is happy, including this someone. As an alumnus of the university I have no "rights" to tickets unless I'm able to afford what is rapidly becoming exorbitant contributions. In a very few years, only wealthy people will be able to attend the games because of continuing to increase costs. Ticket prices have risen a quick 48% in the last few short years. Whether or not that is the decision of the athletic director alone is a mystery to me, but it is more than rapidly reducing the availability of tickets to many long time fans. Students shouldn't have to fight to be able to see their own home team play a game at their own home stadium. Parents, if you have a child @ UGA who wants to be able to obtain a student ticket, it's time for you to organize yourselves and find the right avenue to see that student tickets are available. Even if 30,000 tickets are alloted for students, that leaves 60,000 available at an average price of $40.00. That is still a cool $2.4 million PER GAME at the gate, not including those who maintain prestige boxes. THAT is big time football and the students and their parents who foot the bills to attend should be able to get into the games, no problems asked. If I recall, when I attended UGA it only took a student ID card, but I can't guarantee that memory is correct.


So what you're saying is, even alumni have a hard time getting tickets without exorbitant contributions, to say nothing of students? Well, that makes me feel great as a freshman who was "granted" 3 tickets. (I guess that's the right word for something that apparently should be taken as a huge privilege for a freshman.)
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Ken

posted 8/27/07 @ 1:07 PM EST

Let us not forget that the president of the Athletic Association is in fact Michael Adams. Also, ALL of the money that is received by the Athletic Association stays in athletics. None of it goes towards your education or tuition. Also your financial figures are flawed. Most of the tickets say 40 buck on the face but they are only sold to those who have donated thousands to the athletic assoc. already. Same goes for parking. I know of one lot that you have to donate 10,000 per year or more to even be able to buy the parking pass for. Once again its all about money, not the students, not football, not education, money.
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Claire

posted 8/27/07 @ 2:55 PM EST

I am a sophomore. I received 3 tickets. I have 3 roommates: 2 sophomores and one junior. One sophomore and the junior received 4 tickets, whereas the other sophomore received the entire package. There is no reason why more students should not get more tickets. If other schools can do it, UGA can, too.
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Walter

posted 8/27/07 @ 3:56 PM EST

At least football tickets are still reasonably priced for students. The true athletic scam is the golf course ... 45$ to ride on the weekend? Its a complete rip-off to charge students that much money, never mind the 55$ asked of alumni.
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Baffled

posted 8/27/07 @ 4:17 PM EST

I agree with the absurdity of freshmen being upset at not receiving the full Home schedule. Twice before registering during my Freshman year I was told of the system generally used at UGA. The way it was typically described to me, "Freshman are put into a lottery for which tickets they'll receive, other students get the full Home Package." That's what I heard time and time again, and at no point during my sign-up did I expect to receive a ticket for every single game.

I am somewhat confused by the sudden lack of season packages for non-freshman, however, as it seemed to me that full packages were per the norm for non-freshman up through last year. Hours were used only to determine eligibility in requesting away game tickets. Feel free to correct me if that isn't correct.

In any case, I do not think it is the "right" of students to attend football games. However, I do think it should be an available privilege for the kids who chose this school over others and are giving UGA some of its highest marked classes in history. Does UGA's Athletic Association have so little money that it can't manage to give more seats to the students? I believe Basketball attendance skyrocketed last year, so the Athletic Association made a cool $20 there.

It seems as though UGA is worried about the here and now with regards to Athletic Association income. However, should they be worried about turning off the Alumni of tomorrow with behavior like this?
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David Thorpe

posted 8/27/07 @ 5:30 PM EST

18, 026 student tickets out of a 92, 746 stadium does seem like a low percentage. However, how do you expect the ticket association to give a larger proportion of tickets to students when we can't even fill our entire section until the 2nd quarter for most games? It is downright embarrassing to see the student section of the upper deck half empty at kickoff for some of the lesser games.

How great of an atmosphere would it be if more games were like the Tennessee game of last year (aside from the outcome, obviously)? An hour before kickoff, the student section was already rocking. Granted, it's hard to get excited about the Western Carolina's and Georgia Southern's of the world, but at least be in your seat BEFORE kickoff!

No doubt, tailgating is a special, prominent part of the entire Georgia football experience. However, especially for night games, you can sacrifice 30 minutes of tailgating time to get in the game a little earlier and show the team when it runs onto the field that you're there in support. It will also show the Athletic Association that we, as students, care enough about the game itself to perhaps gain a larger ticket supply for future years.
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David Thorpe

posted 8/27/07 @ 5:35 PM EST

18, 026 student tickets out of a 92, 746 stadium does seem like a low percentage. However, how do you expect the ticket association to give a larger proportion of tickets to students when we can't even fill our entire section until the 2nd quarter for most games? It is downright embarrassing to see the student section of the upper deck half empty at kickoff for some of the lesser games.

How great of an atmosphere would it be if more games were like the Tennessee game of last year (aside from the outcome, obviously)? An hour before kickoff, the student section was already rocking. Granted, it's hard to get excited about the Western Carolina's and Georgia Southern's of the world, but at least be in your seat BEFORE kickoff!

No doubt, tailgating is a special, prominent part of the entire Georgia football experience. However, especially for night games, you can sacrifice 30 minutes of tailgating time to get in the game a little earlier and show the team when it runs onto the field that you're there in support. It will also show the Athletic Association that we, as students, care enough about the game itself to perhaps gain a larger ticket supply for future years.
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David Thorpe

posted 8/27/07 @ 5:39 PM EST

18, 026 student tickets out of a 92, 746 stadium does seem like a low percentage. However, how do you expect the ticket association to give a larger proportion of tickets to students when we can't even fill our entire section until the 2nd quarter for most games? It is downright embarrassing to see the student section of the upper deck half empty at kickoff for some of the lesser games.

How great of an atmosphere would it be if more games were like the Tennessee game of last year (aside from the outcome, obviously)? An hour before kickoff, the student section was already rocking. Granted, it's hard to get excited about the Western Carolina's and Georgia Southern's of the world, but at least be in your seat BEFORE kickoff!

No doubt, tailgating is a special, prominent part of the entire Georgia football experience. However, especially for night games, you can sacrifice 30 minutes of tailgating time to get in the game a little earlier and show the team when it runs onto the field that you're there in support. It will also show the Athletic Association that we, as students, care enough about the game itself to perhaps gain a larger ticket supply for future years.
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Adam

posted 8/27/07 @ 5:51 PM EST

I am a fifth year senior at the University. I have earned 119 hours at this institution. I have completed a degree in Risk Management & Insurance, and I am finishing up my double major in Real Estate. My cumulative GPA here is 3.91.

With all that said, you would think that I would easily be "granted" a full season package. However, the fact that I am taking nine hours this semester has put me at the level of an incoming freshman, and I did not receive a single ticket. Taking fewer hours than usual because your time at the University is winding down is no reason to be treated as an incoming freshman.

Furthermore, this ticket process that we currently have encourages people in my situation to sign up for 12 hours and proceed to drop a class after drop/add has concluded, which is absurd. I should not have to pay extra tuition
and affect my transcript by dropping a class in order to get tickets.

A bunch of bs if you ask me.
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David Thorpe

posted 8/27/07 @ 6:15 PM EST

18, 026 student tickets out of a 92, 746 stadium does seem like a low percentage. However, how do you expect the ticket association to give a larger proportion of tickets to students when we can't even fill our entire section until the 2nd quarter for most games? It is downright embarrassing to see the student section of the upper deck half empty at kickoff for some of the lesser games.

How great of an atmosphere would it be if more games were like the Tennessee game of last year (aside from the outcome, obviously)? An hour before kickoff, the student section was already rocking. Granted, it's hard to get excited about the Western Carolina's and Georgia Southern's of the world, but at least be in your seat BEFORE kickoff!

No doubt, tailgating is a special, prominent part of the entire Georgia football experience. However, especially for night games, you can sacrifice 30 minutes of tailgating time to get in the game a little earlier and show the team when it runs onto the field that you're there in support. It will also show the Athletic Association that we, as students, care enough about the game itself to perhaps gain a larger ticket supply for future years.
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David Thorpe

posted 8/27/07 @ 6:17 PM EST

18, 026 student tickets out of a 92, 746 stadium does seem like a low percentage. However, how do you expect the ticket association to give a larger proportion of tickets to students when we can't even fill our entire section until the 2nd quarter for most games? It is downright embarrassing to see the student section of the upper deck half empty at kickoff for some of the lesser games.

How great of an atmosphere would it be if more games were like the Tennessee game of last year (aside from the outcome, obviously)? An hour before kickoff, the student section was already rocking. Granted, it's hard to get excited about the Western Carolina's and Georgia Southern's of the world, but at least be in your seat BEFORE kickoff!

No doubt, tailgating is a special, prominent part of the entire Georgia football experience. However, especially for night games, you can sacrifice 30 minutes of tailgating time to get in the game a little earlier and show the team when it runs onto the field that you're there in support. It will also show the Athletic Association that we, as students, care enough about the game itself to perhaps gain a larger ticket supply for future years.
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CaveMan

posted 8/27/07 @ 6:37 PM EST

I am a 6th-year Junior and am EXTREMELY PISSED that I didn't get a full set of tickets. You would think that since I've committed six years of my life to this institution that I would be given the appropriate amount of footballage. My parents have been working too hard and paying too much money for me to not get what I deserve.
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David Thorpe

posted 8/27/07 @ 7:11 PM EST

Originally posted by

CaveMan

 I am a 6th-year Junior and am EXTREMELY PISSED that I didn't get a full set of tickets. You would think that since I've committed six years of my life to this institution that I would be given the appropriate amount of footballage. My parents have been working too hard and paying too much money for me to not get what I deserve.


18, 026 student tickets out of a 92, 746 stadium does seem like a low percentage. However, how do you expect the ticket association to give a larger proportion of tickets to students when we can't even fill our entire section until the 2nd quarter for most games? It is downright embarrassing to see the student section of the upper deck half empty at kickoff for some of the lesser games.

How great of an atmosphere would it be if more games were like the Tennessee game of last year (aside from the outcome, obviously)? An hour before kickoff, the student section was already rocking. Granted, it's hard to get excited about the Western Carolina's and Georgia Southern's of the world, but at least be in your seat BEFORE kickoff!

No doubt, tailgating is a special, prominent part of the entire Georgia football experience. However, especially for night games, you can sacrifice 30 minutes of tailgating time to get in the game a little earlier and show the team when it runs onto the field that you're there in support. It will also show the Athletic Association that we, as students, care enough about the game itself to perhaps gain a larger ticket supply for future years.
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Brett

posted 8/27/07 @ 11:23 PM EST

CaveMan, your main concern should be your status as a 6th year junior, not football tickets.
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