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Cearley: Ticket system 'moving in the right direction'

Abstract:
Editor's note: The Red & Black recently sat down with Tim Cearley, director of ticket operations for the University Athletic Association, to discuss details surrounding the new student ticketing system for football games. With the new system, home-game tickets will be electronically loaded onto students' UGA identification cards rather than issued in paper form....

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Dave

posted 6/18/09 @ 9:01 AM EST

I think this system will be more effective if run efficiently. However, why don't students who donate their tickets simply get reimbursed 8 dollars? The student section would always be at least 95% full if that were the case. But with students having no incentive other than donating them to the donation bank out of good will for students who do not have tickets, I'm afraid many students who can't attend a particular game won't donate them out of laziness, causing a much less full section for some of the less appealing games.

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seriously, Red&Black?

posted 6/18/09 @ 2:52 PM EST

Originally posted by
Dave
I think this system will be more effective if run efficiently. However, why don't students who donate their tickets simply get reimbursed 8 dollars? The student section would always be at least 95% full if that were the case. But with students having no incentive other than donating them to the donation bank out of good will for students who do not have tickets, I'm afraid many students who can't attend a particular game won't donate them out of laziness, causing a much less full section for some of the less appealing games.

AMEN.

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4th Year Student

posted 6/19/09 @ 4:44 PM EST

You're nuts if you think the student section wont be full. For many, many, years before you or I were at UGA, the student section has been overly-full. This year will be no different.

These tickets are exactly what UGA needed. Now students, regardless of hours at UGA, get to sit where they deserve to sit and with their friends. I was sick of Fratty McJunior and his fun date girl taking up seats to a game where they dont even know 10 players on the field. Now deserving students who care about both the game and the players in general can come early and get the seats they deserve.

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Lauren

posted 6/19/09 @ 6:26 PM EST

Originally posted by
4th Year Student
You're nuts if you think the student section wont be full. For many, many, years before you or I were at UGA, the student section has been overly-full. This year will be no different.

These tickets are exactly what UGA needed. Now students, regardless of hours at UGA, get to sit where they deserve to sit and with their friends. I was sick of Fratty McJunior and his fun date girl taking up seats to a game where they dont even know 10 players on the field. Now deserving students who care about both the game and the players in general can come early and get the seats they deserve.

From my seats in the west endzone my sophomore year, the upper student section where my freshman tickets were always looked pretty damn empty.

Also, while I'm in favor of general admission, it should be allotted by class. I had to sit in the nosebleeds my freshman year, other people should too. There are more than enough juniors and seniors to fill the 108-112 student section.

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Clearly = fail

posted 6/20/09 @ 12:02 PM EST

You are all high if you think this is or could be a good system...it SUCKS! This is the most ridiculous idea ever - it goes against everything you ever learned in economics about supply and demand.

If I buy a ticket and cant go to the game, I hold the right to sell that ticket to the highest bidder. If you buy a movie ticket, and then cant go, you can sell that to anyone you want to at whatever price they are willing to pay. Not your fault if they want to spend $200 to see Marley & Me.

Sorry, but the University is cutting the entire student body a really shitty deal on this and the attendance IS going to suffer. They expect DONATIONS IF YOU CANT GO!? with NO REFUND!? Do they live in the real world? Especially one in this economy? NOT ONE SINGLE PERSON WILL DONATE, if they do then they get a fail too, for being an idiot.

I'm submitting Tim Clearly's name up for Moron of they year - send your ballots to www.clearlysucks.com

Tim Clearly -- FAIL

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