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I just always get the feeling that the athletic department doesn't care about loyalty or want to reward it when it comes to the students. Don't get me wrong, my friends and I have been spoiled for basketball games freshman year (front row seats), but since then we've gotten crap seats in Cassell. Especially now with the team sucking, you have these people that never go to the games and have these primo seats and then you have us who have missed maybe a handful of games over four years and our seats are high up and behind the backboard. It just rubs me the wrong way.
After living in Brodie for the first 3 years on campus and Monteith for the last, I can agree that Monteith definitely needs to go, but I don't see how you can house all these kids on campus if you don't expect to replace Thomas and Monteith.
Also, it's nice that they built the two new parking garages, but the still need to do one in the cage. I think that would solve a lot of resident and game day parking.
I don't think all sports have tickets
My dad was devistated when he heard they were tearing down Thomas, his home for at least a few years.
Marcus Davis, if developed properly, can be dangerous to all opposing defenses.
I'm liking how my Giants are starting to grab all these Hokies. I think Tweedy is really a steal. Look at how he played this past season when given a shot on defense. And he dominated the opposing return teams. But lest we not forget:
That's nice. Time for them to break ground on a new indoor football practice facility.
It's ironic because the money you'd make in "profit" on scalping the tickets is probably what you would make in two shifts working a campus job. The people who try to cheat the system probably got dicked this year, though, since you couldn't give away tickets by the end of the year..
Call me an idealist, but I STRONGLY disagree with the concept of 'making a quick buck' off of student tickets - it sickens me to see that students have sold tickets to high profile games at an enormous profit. When it comes down to season tickets, students aren't paying much more than $10-15 per football game and maybe even less than that for basketball games. I knew people who never went to games, but bought a student ticket & guest ticket for the sole purpose of selling them throughout the year. If you want to make money, get a job on campus and do it the old-fashioned way, since there's plenty to be had.
Anyways, I'll stop ranting - I agree with you though, the system is a complete sham and VT really does need to reform it in some fashion
This is exactly what I was going to say. Last year was the first time I won season tickets and of course it was only because nobody else wanted tickets. I had a friend who didn't get season tickets but she did go to every game from the stand-by line, and although that was always and option, she didn't win tickets in the lottery very often. If there's someone who actually wants to go to games then they should be able to get tickets.
downvote for redundancy.
upvote for admitting to it like a (VT)man.
Apparently you offended an academic living behind ivy walls. Haha.
I can summarize my opinion of the student ticket situation (at least in basketball) with one story.
My Junior year I really wanted season tickets to basketball games. I entered the lottery and didn't win. Undeterred, I decided to still try and find season tickets. I knew somebody was likely trying to sell them and make a buck. Fine, I don't mind paying an extra ten bucks, fair enough.
I saw some sorority girl who looked like she didn't even know who Eric Green was offering up her season tickets literally a day after the lottery results came out. I believe the tickets would have cost about $80 straight up, including that annoying "handling fee" they give out which is another thing all together. I offered to give her $95 for the tickets. She responded by saying she was taking nothing less than $130 for them.......
Again, if you want to make a buck that's fine, but the system is being blatantly abused and VT has got to do something about it.
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# | File this under "HUNHH?" ACC games in London??!! (England, not Kentucky, folks) Quidditch is the new LARP
I could watch this on repeat all day.
Our basketball season ticket policy has always rubbed me the wrong way. I can't complain too much since I've gotten season tickets for all my four years, but I can't stand the fact that for the "bad" games, there's no one there, and it's these same people that have taken season tickets away from the people who really want to go to every game. That being said, it's fairly easy now to get into the games, but the principle is bad in my opinion.
They could do it without having to raise prices too much, because they already scan your ticket, which has your name associated with it even if they don't scan your ID. Even if you can't make it to a game and give it to a friend the ticket is still being used and you get credit for finding someone to fill your seat.
Overall, loyalty points would probably require an increase in student ticket prices to pay for the staff and ID scanning at each game for all sports.
still kinda makes me frustrated to read how he doesn't know how he fell that far in the draft, clearly hes not there maturity-wise
And Tweedy now, too. But on a related note,
BUBBLE SCREENS FOR EVERYONE!
UNC, UND... they all suck.
Coughlin will straighten him out. It will also help that he has Wilson and Hosley on the team. Then he gets to see how Cruz, Hixon, and Nicks do it.
I love it when my college team players become my pro team players...
whoops sorry about that my bad
YOOUUUU RRAAANNNGGG?
"But the living there , if not hard, is at least extremely inconvenient" I could not have said it better myself.