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Zach Luckett just raised his hand

I think the "underrated" Olinemen are a very good thing. VT used to be the underrated school which no one was afraid of, but win or lose, they were beat up afterwards and respected what VT brought to the table. Also, Bitter, you don't like the moniker. Who really cares what they call themselves? Why is "fab 5" reserved for 4 and 5*s? In the NBA, every team has a "big 3".

At UMD they give you a discount into the Terp Club (you need to be a member to get season tickets) and give you discounted tickets for the first year. As much as I hate UMD they got the ticket thing right.

I like the idea of i guess we can call the "Hokie Points" or what have you. The only thing I would add would be why stop at tickets, why not tie it into give aways and promotions and such? With our current administration its unlikely but with a new one dedicated to student support who knows? Maybe after so many points you can get the effect shirts/ Hokiezone shirts for free?

That would also help induce the corps to participate, theres not a lot of us but we do love us some Hokie sports lol, just the whole football tickets thing isnt an incentive.

Now that im thinking even, what if as a senior if you totalled up enough points you could be given a discount on your season tickets as a recent grad if you bought them within say like 3 years of leaving?

I'm actually not sure how many of our 60,000 regulars really pay attention to coaching staff changes, and besides, there are probably a lot turned off by the fact that we essentially picked up guys that Auburn just fired, without really understanding the full story.

The best system would clearly be to just take your number of tkp turkey legs as your points.

I see where all you guys are coming from, and yes the getting out of Lane thing is the biggest immediate flaw in my mind. But I think if you had a "student-only" entrance and exit gate (say the one behind the scoreboard east side) it would help, maybe you could even do a system that says you only have to scan when you come in, or if you leave early (obviously you could then figure out who stayed the entire time by whoever is left over).

The fact that everyone can buy season tickets now does make this a bit useless for football, but it takes one good season for that to change again, and the student body is only growing larger. And personally, I hated the way basketball tickets worked, I hate getting ripped off by some students who doesn't even know what a teabag and Paulus have to do with one another. I still think the ticket system needs improving regardless and I think a point-system of some sort is the right way to go.

It's important for basketball. The next time I see a kid on Facebook trying to sell their season basketball tickets for twice the price I'm going to hunt them down and kick him right in the nuts.

Personally, I agree that the lottery system is flawed, but honestly it isn't that bad. My freshman year I managed to go to every game even when I didn't win the lottery (if you really want to go, tickets are not hard to come by), and ever since I've just bought season tickets. Also this is kind of a moot point now considering everyone can buy season tickets.

Now some form of a point/karma system would be great when it comes to seat placement, but outside of that it really isn't necessary anymore.

Wow man thank you so much!!! I owe many of you fellow key players rounds of beer. Next time I'm in the burg it's on me fellas!

I think the general consensus is that the points system is the best idea. However, scanning on the way out would cause too much congestion. Just taking the time to go to a soccer game should be worth something.

When I was at Tech you camped east of Cassell on the grass between the tennis courts and road. But you really only needed to do this for big games. If you went very early on the day they released tickets and lined up you could almost always get tickets. And 1 guy could get 5 tickets with their sports id card thing. I heard camping became an issue later due to certain activities in tents and the aforementioned class attendance and traffic issues. We used to rotate 5 or 6 guys in the tent. I only remember one guy getting taking off the line by campus police for being drunk but heard stories of much more drinking and more illicit things.