We dropped a ticket last year since we had 2 at ISU. We donated one level above our required since I dropped the ticket. Needed to add one so I was going to go back to the required level but figured I better stay higher to increase our chances. Ended up over a section in the area that we donate so I think I'm kinda stuck at that level now. Will have a daughter graduate and if she wants to slide in with us I will have one year where i will be unsure what to do since our youngest would be a senior in HS that year. Probably the cheapest just to buy the cheap seats and have her blend into the student section with friends for a year.
The best decision they could have made (and it would have affected me most likely) would have been to flip the students to the south from the north and push them one section further south. This would have given the better donor level seats to be sold and just inverted the seats of most people. The ones displaced from the southern most section could have had the price lock for the better seats for 3 years like they did. This would have placed the students behind the opponent section for the most part and still had them in solid positon. It would have been a win for the AD and only a slight hit for the student section.
Yep, I worked at the ISC at that time, unless it was some small thing, any concert brought in their own equipment.
Yeah that was my point, hire one of these long time touring bands crew to setup a system in the North endzone, move the band to the field below the students.
That ain't happening.
Paying us to move the student section? Where did you get that idea? The conference mandates safety for visiting teams and all game participants. It is up to the schools to make that happen. I suppose ISU could put up a 12' chainlink fence on the top of the wall to keep people off the field, but instead they decided to move the most likely field rushers away from the route from the visiting bench to the visiting locker room. It was an ISU plan and decision not a conference one.
When OU comes they should put the band on the hill right along that wall by that thin section that is the visiting team fans and have them directly face that section and repeatedly blast them with the ISU fight song.
Big 12 Announces Public Reprimand and Fine of Texas Tech
In accordance with the Big 12 Conference Principles and Standards of Sportsmanship, the Conference has issued a public reprimand and $50,000 fine of Texas Tech University for the field storming incident that occurred at the conclusion of Saturday’s overtime victory against Texas.big12sports.com
In accordance with the Big 12 Conference Principles and Standards of Sportsmanship, the Conference has issued a public reprimand and $50,000 fine of Texas Tech University for the field storming incident that occurred at the conclusion of Saturday’s overtime victory against Texas.
“We have a duty to provide a safe game environment,” said Big 12 Conference Commissioner Brett Yormark. “The Texas Tech Department of Athletics has a written event management policy that, while well thought out, was unsuccessful in ensuring the safety and security of all visiting team student-athletes, officials, coaches and staff. There is zero tolerance for any act that compromises the safety of game participants, and it is of utmost importance that home game management provide adequate security measures for our student-athletes, coaches, game officials and spectators.”
