The Hawks have a "Fans vs. Players/Coaches" dynamic right now.
We have a "Old Fans vs. Students" dynamic.
Ours is weirder.
WRNL Calls Out the Students
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The Hawks have a "Fans vs. Players/Coaches" dynamic right now.
We have a "Old Fans vs. Students" dynamic.
Ours is weirder.
Hit a little close to home for you fellas??
My thoughts exactly. Loved how they said stop staying in to play video games - get out, have some fluids, & get to finger blasting!
My thoughts exactly. Loved how they said stop staying in to play video games - get out, have some fluids, & get to finger blasting!
Glad this is getting out there more than just confined to the forums on here.
Our group that goes to games will consist of up to 6, sometimes more if groups merge. But for more than a few games there will be 1-4 that just don't show up. Too busy, not feeling well, have to work etc. Never once have they sold their tickets to someone else in those situations. The ticket trading system sucks. It's really hard for a lot of people to make it to all of the games, but I've been to every game except for a nobody in the noncon. So I'm not justifying anything, just putting some perspective into it.
I agree though, about 95% of the time it is b*tch*ssedness
Our group that goes to games will consist of up to 6, sometimes more if groups merge. But for more than a few games there will be 1-4 that just don't show up. Too busy, not feeling well, have to work etc. Never once have they sold their tickets to someone else in those situations. The ticket trading system sucks. It's really hard for a lot of people to make it to all of the games, but I've been to every game except for a nobody in the noncon. So I'm not justifying anything, just putting some perspective into it.
I agree though, about 95% of the time it is b*tch*ssedness
I would have killed to have Fred' teams playing when I went to school here. To the students who currently do show up, you guys are great. This isn't about you. It's about those that aren't showing up. I can guarantee you that there are a lot of younger alumni in their late 20's/early 30's that are finally coming into having some time and income to spend on going to more games. If students aren't showing up and doing their part, those seats need to go to those that will gladly pay for them and how up. We can get loud, we know the words to the Fight Song, and we can sure as hell booo and yell “**** McGary.”
This is a great time in your lives and as others here have said, it’s the only time you can get crazy and be irresponsible without a lot of consequences. Embrace it and have fun! Because in a few years you’ll be stuck in a soul-crushing job that you’ll hate because you have a mortgage to pay for.
This is a great time in your lives and as others here have said, it’s the only time you can get crazy and be irresponsible without a lot of consequences. Embrace it and have fun! Because in a few years you’ll be stuck in a soul-crushing job that you’ll hate because you have a mortgage to pay for.
This is said without knowing how the tickets are handled/sold. From what I have read the student section is oversold. My idea would be on game days you would have to log in to the ticket department and get some sort of code to print off showing you indeed have a seat for that day's game. It would be a first come, first served system. Once the sections are filled in, the system will show that no one else can get a ticket/code. If sections are not filled in within a designated time period before the game starts anyone wanting a ticket/code could purchase a seat. I would be willing to bet that the problem of the sections not being full will end. Since the seats are already sold, additional revenue will be made from those purchasing unused seats. Just my two cents.
I don't like the F....Whoever chants honestly
The student section will probably shrink a bit (which is odd since we have 32K students)
This is a first world problem. I watch a lot of other places including our own league that can't even get anyone at their games. Just have some tweaking to do is all.
The student section will probably shrink a bit (which is odd since we have 32K students)
This is a first world problem. I watch a lot of other places including our own league that can't even get anyone at their games. Just have some tweaking to do is all.
You guys make it seem like there would be 1000 people every game looking to buy a ticket if they released the seats that weren't picked up by students to the public.
I'll bet that's true for at least the conference season. Maybe not the cupcakes. I've been to 2 games this year. One weeknight, one weekend. All sections appeared full except the upper deck student section. Look how fast single game tickets sold out this year. You're kidding yourself if you think alumni/general public wouldn't fill in those seats.
They could have sold another 500 cheap general admission, first-come, first-served season tickets that included every game except Michigan, Iowa, and Kansas. Probably would have left out Oklahoma State also if this decision were being made preseason, but be throwing it in for free now that we have seen how the season has gone.
I don't see JP throwing away the money generated by the overselling of student season tickets, especially when he can sell some of those seats for the third time.
There has always been an alum v student dynamic on this board. Except when we were students the team had 100 plays consisting of "hold onto the ball until there's 5 seconds left and hope it goes in the hoop"
Any would be better than none.
The system is going to change for next year, no doubt about it. No reason to argue about it now.
What if we start busing in homeless people to start filling any seats that are empty at tip off?
That was great.
It is interesting and you'd hope athletics would figure something out in regards to tickets. As the article pointed out, better turn out when the team wasn't as good and there were less students going for the tickets....now they are harder to get, but only hear complaints for BIG games. Somethings gotta give.
A lot of it is probably as was said in the letter....there is a change in culture with youth and access to things. People want little bits of fun, instant, etc. All games are on tv of some type. It's been a cold winter....yada yada yada.
I've said this before for football too, but maybe they do go for a graduated system where freshmen get x games...go to them all get x+5 games next year, and so on. Same for football. Build up a little hunger for more.
It is interesting and you'd hope athletics would figure something out in regards to tickets. As the article pointed out, better turn out when the team wasn't as good and there were less students going for the tickets....now they are harder to get, but only hear complaints for BIG games. Somethings gotta give.
A lot of it is probably as was said in the letter....there is a change in culture with youth and access to things. People want little bits of fun, instant, etc. All games are on tv of some type. It's been a cold winter....yada yada yada.
I've said this before for football too, but maybe they do go for a graduated system where freshmen get x games...go to them all get x+5 games next year, and so on. Same for football. Build up a little hunger for more.
If it's 1000 or 10 or 1, it is a ticket that could be used by someone WANTING to be there.
The sooner some of you realize that not every student even likes basketball, the sooner we can drop this topic.
