What is UT doing with student basketball tickets

[Statalyzer]

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LASP used to mean you showed up on gameday and they scanned your ID and you got a wristband. Why add the extra hassle of having to get the ticket a week early? This will just make the already-often-poor student attendence even worse because now students won't be able to get some friends together the day before the game and say "Let's go watch the UT basketball game tomorrow"

I understand why they have the draw for football, but it's a horrible idea for basketball.

 

[Horns11]

It looks like they're trying to eliminate the hassle of waiting on game day. It says in the fine print at the bottom that getting a draw ticket does not guarantee admission. It's just a way to bypass the line that close to tip off.

When I was there (98-01), we had to draw at Belmont if we wanted good seats. If students are that in to basketball, they should realize how to plan ahead. If not, then it'll become tougher and tougher to keep Barnes if we can't fill the place.

 

[SL Xpress]

It's not going to be "tougher and tougher to keep Barnes". That threat meant something a few years ago, but no longer.

The guy isn't going to coach into his 70s until he has a stroke a la Lute Olson. He's 54 now. It's at least somewhat safe to say he has 10 more years as the head coach, but anything after that is year to year. He has an excellent start to the 2010 class, and a top 10 national kid for the 2012 class is about as much a lock as someone can be at that stage.

He's turned down a hugely lucrative opportunity to return to his home state at North Carolina State, and he's turned down the Kentucky job, one of the true plum positions in all of college basketball. Duke, North Carolina, and UCLA will never come calling. Indiana --- another job he's turned down --- has more prestigious, but fewer resources. There just aren't any more jobs out there that would be compelling enough enticements for him to leave what he's built at Texas simply to coach for another 5 years or so.

I've been as worried --- and many times, more worried --- than anyone around over the years, but after he passed on the opportunity to go to Kentucky, I don't think about it much any more. Texas is a national recruiting juggernaut. If they compete at the level they should over the next 3 years, that's only going to build on itself. He may get frustrated and continue to fight for changes in internal policy regarding attendance, but he isn't leaving for another position over it.

There's also a student point system in place this year that rewards students with priority tickets to women's and men's basketball plus priority for bowl tickets based on attendance at men's and women's basketball games (with an emphasis on the women's games). I don't know if that will help student attendance or not, but that's the goal.

 

[cbs]

It still looks like you can draw up to the day of the game, assuming no sell out.

Back in the old days, we used to camp out (often with the cheesehead guy) to get front row, center court tickets for the games. Those were reserved. It looks like now you draw and it's still first come first serve. Maybe to eliminate many of the scanning issues complained about so much on here?