Basketball tickets

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Whether it's Texas Box Office, the athletic department, the university leaders or whoever, f*ck them. A friend of mine drew an online student ticket for the Kansas game as soon as they were available and skipped his last class and assignment on Monday to get to the game an hour and a half before the game. He didn't quite get into the lower level seats, and due to the clusterf*ck that ensues when the lower level wristbands run out, a number of people were able to essentially jump him in line by the luck of being closer to the upper level doors. No problem, he gets in but gets poor choice of seats right? Well as it turned out, when there were about 100 to 150 of them left they quit letting people in, told them it was full, and that they should wait in case more seats opened up. About 15 minutes before gametime, the football team walked in right by them, but the students waiting in the cold were told to stay and wait, until, right after tip-off they tell them to go home

In recap, they issued the student tickets, decided to take some of them away so the football team could watch (sit silent and motionless until doing their halftime thing and leaving), made the students they screwed stand out in the cold until shortly after the game, then told to leave, assuming they either could instantly be at a tv or didn't care about the game they had waited for hours in the cold to watch. F*ck them.
 
which from what I saw at the beginning of the season would have been atleast 99% of those students. They only come to the big games and then cry about not sitting courtside.
 
I don't think the football team took all of those tickets. But I get the point that athletic department sucks when it comes to getting students into the games.

Students were loud but that brain fart our team had allowing KU to score 22 in a row really took everybody in the building out of the game. I don't blame them for losing their enthusiasm. That was a pathetic display of basketball during that stretch. The crowd got back into it when the team got back into it though.
 
Quadruple the motion for people who go to one game a year to shut the hell up. In the past couple of years, TBO had promotions where if you went to a women's game you were given guaranteed admission to the bigger men's games. Your friend needs to skip more than just his last class if he wants into the KU game, ****, Duke students skip whole weeks and live outside in tents to get to the UNC game so buck the hell up and quit your bitching. Maybe if we put students through absolute **** to get into the game the quiet ones will quit coming and we can actually get a good game atmosphere. I for one absolutely loved the rush of getting let into the lower decks and all out sprinting through the hallways of Erwin with hundreds of other students to get to my first come first serve seats. Took me back to my cross country days

Also, don't talk bad about the football team getting tickets without waiting. Those are perks that come with the territory, and when recruits see that they get treated like royalty on campus even in the off season, they will want to come play football here.
 
I was suprised the football team was not given lower level seats. Considering the game, allocating any seats for the football team is a sacrifice.

Though I think they did something similar after the Big XII championship game where the football team was recognized, maybe only 25-50 players were able to show. I think it was Texas State. The team was able to sit in the regular student section behind the band in the lower level. The student sections behind the band weren't even half full. Granted it was finals time, but I'm sure you can find a 2 1/2 hour study break...

Texas football players are going to take priority over most students on campus. Thats the way it is, love it or hate it. But as other posters said, when students use up all their allotment at other games, then seating will get better.
 
Simple Solution:

Stop giving the tickets to rich old white folk who cant stand up for more than 5 minutes without aggravating their arthritis and then maybe, just maybe.. we will have a decent sounding crowd.

The students section always tears the rest of the crowd to pieces.. And there is only about 100 seats(total guess) under the basket..

100 students vs Thousands and thousands of people shouldnt even be a competition.

I guess I dont know a lot about our situation behind the scenes regarding tickets. But why cant we just give the students the first dibs at all the tickets? Is that too ignorant to be asking?

I dont mean to be rude, but Id rather see the student body in full force than anyone else. That is what college sports in general is all about.
 
For big games they should raise the donor level to eliminate a couple sections of lower monetary level donors, push all the big donors to mid court, and open up a few more sections around each basket on the lower level. For big games the students will show up and the place will be packed with people who can stand longer than 5 minutes, the increase in donations to get big game tickets could offset the loss in more student tickets, and everybody wins (including the other team, right now anyway)
 
I was mad when my family tried to get upper-midcourt seats. TBO said they were all sold out, so we just get upper-endcourt seats. Get to the game, and what do ya know, TONS of empty upper-mid seats. I was secretly hoping it was scalpers getting stuck with the tickets than TBO just being inept.
 
As a student that attends (nearly) every home basketball game, the best solution is to ante up the extra $80 for the Stampede Pass. That pass is amazing and is worth it for entry into the Kansas game alone. I arrived about an hour and half before the Kansas game and sat in the O-Zone.

So if you're really concerned about not wasting time sitting outside the Drum before games, I'd invest in the pass next year.
 
Bad thing. Sorry it happened. Should be a better way.

The System works by the Golden Rule: Gold Rules. The rich, old, crochety, wrinkly, crochety, pasty white folks donate lots of money. In return, they get the best seats. Gold Rules.

It's true in football, baseball, basketball and in bidniss, education, politics and life.
 
Mace and others....the LHF donors BUY their season tickets. I think the best solution is a new arena. We could afford it, and Austin could benefit as well. The Drum WAS awesome when it opened, but it's way outdated.
 
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