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I agree with everything you've said, the only thing I wouldn't like is scanning the student ID. As a fairly young alumni I sometimes rely on using my student id to use a student ticket to go to games, even though I'm not a student anymore. However, if it improves the student section back to how it was when I was coming to games in high school, I'd put up with me having to get an actual non student ticket.
Our student ticket policies are very strange, to say the least.
The one that has bothered me for ages was the way they handled basketball season tickets for students. After my freshman year, I ended up buying season tickets for basketball and went to practically every game my sophomore year. After that season, they changed the way season tickets were given out - that's when you had to enter & win the lottery to be ELIGIBLE for season tickets. I understand that demand was higher, but it really hurt the crowds in my opinion. I am a huge basketball fan, moreso than football (which I still enjoy tremendously), but was unable to get season tickets due to the new policy.
As far as providing incentives, I think one of the easiest ways to curb students leaving early from football games would be to scan student IDs. As you come in it's scanned & the same when you leave - the students who have accumulated the most time inside the stadium get priority seating next year... It's not a perfect system and there will always be people who try to take advantage of it, but I think it would cause people to think twice about leaving at halftime if they knew their seats next year would be further up in the stands.
I actually wrote this for my proposal paper in the Technical Writing course like 5 or 6 years ago. Of all the schools I researched, we were the only school that has zero incentives for people getting tickets. Everyone else was heavily weighted by age, attendance, etc. I think this is the way to go, unless they end up making people go to all sports to get loyalty points, not just the sports that you are interested in getting tickets for. I'm all for supporting all of the athletic programs but the last thing I wanted to feel obligated to doing on a Friday night was going to see the Women's Tennis team play just to get points so I could go to the football game.
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Hopefully, some good coaching can take hold. He definitely has some potential.
Yep, I completely missed those somehow... I guess I was envisioning tabs at the top of the site, but the forum section works for me!
Again, thanks for all the hard work you guys put into the site.
Good call!
Can someone with a Twitter account tweet that at him? I think some twitter recruiting is always good...
If I could downvote myself I would. Fail on my part for not clicking on the twitter link..... smh at myself.
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In my mind (ideally) we'd have some kind of incentive system for going to all the games, a la Maryland. To be able to go to games like the Duke game at Maryland, you build up loyalty points by going to all the "bad" games and you are rewarded with a tickets to the high profile games. I'm not sure if something like that would feasibly work with us, but it's something that I always thought gets the "best" fans at the games. Could be something worth looking at IMO.
he committed to Notre dame
Notre Dame actually: http://rivals.yahoo.com/notredame/football/recruiting/player-Elijah-Hood...
hood commits to unc
In addition to the NFC East title, I guess the Giants are having a competition with the Redskins to see how many Hokies they can have on their roster.
Right now they're both tied at 4.
Yeah I think we're all still pissed about no Thursday night game.
It's a very small leap from Orange & Maroon to Burgundy & Gold!
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# | Bitter blog - Receiver Marcus Davis signs FA deal with Giants Hopefully he's going to be coached by someone that isn't going to let even the microscopic stuff slide. Everyone knows he has the height & speed, it's the consistent effort that was missing. For his sake, I hope he makes the most of this opportunity and proves himself. At the same time, I wonder how far Coach Moorehead would have buried him in the depth chart if he gave the same effort as last year.
The uniform in this thread + a video like this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=eXVTMuFGXCQ
Unfortunately not. Between the retired logos and the rather poorly photoshopped numbers, these are sadly not real.
thats just cold....true but cold.
I hope this has lit a fire in him and he rises to the occasion.
Its much easier to blame him. Especially since he thinks we shouldnt have a Thursday night game
In Weaver's defense, does he have any say in uniforms or game times? I thought the game times were chosen by ACC TV, and that nike chooses the uniforms? If nike doesn't supply us with Maroon Jerseys, we can't wear them.
These shirts will go great with my orange and maroon Zubas! Thanks guys.
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Yeah, I agree with the scanning the ID's being an issue. Also, there have been multiple occasions where I have used others' IDs to help get friends from other schools into the gates with a student ticket. I actually wrote a paper while I was in school about the loyalty system as well. I believe I looked a lot at West Virginia as an example on how they set theirs up.