Camping out for the Iowa game
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I would go to reserved student seating for the Kansas and Oklahoma St. games. Only offer them on an in person basis for student season ticket holders. Set a time, like 8 am the Monday before the game, when they become available. People would still be able to camp out or get there early to be in line, but it would be a smaller number of people and a lot easier to police when you aren't letting people into a venue but just in line to pick up tickets. Also, have a limit of two IDs per person to balance between helping groups be able to sit together and keeping it fair for those that show up and wait in line.
This is what they used to do for Kansas and Iowa games, but they stopped doing it a few (6 or so?) years ago.
I remember people camping out to get those tickets and they did it either before the season started or during the beginning of the season sometime.
When he runs around next game at the 4 minute timeout just block the way on the balcony so he can't get through. What would he do?
This makes sense. So, if we have the answer within our own AD history, it only makes sense to put it to use.
It baffles my mind that someone would have the nerve to try to save seats after camping out.
It is really a shame. This has got to be brought under control. Hopefully, the solution will be something that actually honors the true fans.
There were no ropes and barriers eventually. I would estimate that I started roughly #150 in line. By the time the doors opened I estimate I was roughly #300. Once people started budging from the farthest back barrier (because they are like 3-4 feet tall and don't way much at all), then everyone who was initially behind rows of rope is probably thinking "well ****, if all of those people are going to budge from back there, then I'm going to have to budge from here".
I emailed a couple people in the athletic department about the potential problems that they would run into with the biggest games. I was told that they had "looked into" the situation and that they believed that they had the best plan set up to deal with the line. If they really believe that some strands of rope and barriers are the best plan to deal with the situation, then wow. Either something drastic has to change in regards to how they prevent people from budging, or they have to change the way that they do the line.
You have thousands of impatient kids standing outside in the freezing cold for long periods of time (ehem, some of us there a long time anyway), it has become obvious that the line is deteriorating, and that the students are now cramming together like what happened with Kansas last year, so tell me if the following would be a good idea: Have a Hilton staffer come out and throw his hands in the air to get the students excited and then NOT let us in. Then after that, lets have 4 or 5 more Hilton staffers walk outside to just take a look at the line and wave to everyone, and then walk back inside and make us wait for another half an hour. All you accomplished was making a volatile situation turn even more volatile, while making everyone who was toward the back push the people in front of them because they think the doors are about to be opened.
Oh, and I'm also really glad to hear that the CAC was standing inside Hilton for a large portion of the wait time, told some friends of theirs that the doors would open at 6 (word spreads quickly), but what they actually meant was that they would DECIDE what to do at 6. So.. when they decided to just keep everyone out there for another hour+, they stayed nice and toasty in Hilton while thinking about how AWESOME this is going to look on their resume and how sweet they're going to look when the camera is on them.
Sigh.. I digress.. Probably too long, and therefore won't read, but the whole situation Friday was F'd up. I've never been one to be a big basher of CA because it wasn't like I could do much about it, and my fellow students themselves have done a fantastic job this season of being loud and rowdy, but things have to change. If (when) this team continues to win, and we see multiple top 15-10 matchups throughout the remainder of the year, the problem will only grow.
Let me just finish by saying this is an amazing problem to have. Student support HAS been incredible this season, and its crazy to me how much its grown even from my freshman year two season ago (and from what I can imagine, before Hoiball got here.)
As a fellow student that waited in line... Everything here is spot on.
Friday's student line situation was handled extremely poorly by whoever is in charge of that (Ath Dept/Hilton staff).
Well said, and good insight into the situation and issues. Its pretty obvious something needs to be done, and it needs to be done before something bad happens.
This sounds like the problems go beyond just losing a spot in line, but also a student safety issue.
I'm all about having fun in large crowds, but could become something serious if there are injuries that are a result of these large crowds that are not controlled.
