TOLEDO GAME SOLD OUT!!!!

[kdog27]

I have an issue with the number of tickets they a. hold for students and b. keep for students till the game.

I first came into contact with this problem during the 2003 NIU gameday football game. I was not a graduate student at the time and needed to get a ticket. I nearly missed that game because it was sold out and they held 4k or some obscene number for students. They needed a ticket pick up for that one. ANyone who was at that game knows the student section was not Packed.

Also, if they are going to the ticket pick up for the students they need to modify it. I have no problem with holding 1400 tickets for the students. The entire campus, nearly 20k students pays their fees to go to events like this, the event is for them, remember. I do have a problem though if there are extra tickets laying around that won't get picked up by tip off. Why not put a close on the student ticket pick up? It started Tuesday at 9am, why not end it on Thursday at 5pm? Alows a couple of days and a full business day for leftover tickets to be resold. . . .

So I did some research on this one and here is what I found out. If 4000 seats were held back for the NIU game that is close to 14% of the capacity of Doyt Perry Stadium. That means the athletic department held space for about 20% of the student body. Thats not a whole lot. In Anderson Arena here is the breakdown. 1400 seats is almost 30% of the listed arena capacity. But that only allows 7% of the student body in to see the game. I don't know how other schools doll out their student tickets but we pay for ours. Even though most studends don't know it. Just over 50% of the general each student pays goes to intercollegiate athletics. As long as this is the practice then student tickets should not be sold until the doors open for any given game. Here again, marketing needs to get the word out about the games and show some enthusiasm abou the events.

There were a hell of a lot more than 4,000 students at the NIU football game. That game brought everyone out of the woodwork. Than we played Kent I believe and there might have been 40 students there

[momtartin]

There were a hell of a lot more than 4,000 students at the NIU football game. That game brought everyone out of the woodwork. Than we played Kent I believe and there might have been 40 students there Embarassed

Yea, but remember the weather for that game too, it wasn't exactly sunny and warm....

[hammb]

If you remember any of that day you didn't have nearly enough fun

[momtartin]

Good point, It sure would have been interesting to play my instrument that way, but I'm pretty sure the director wouldn't like it,