Dirtywater {l Wrote}:I have always felt that an important part of the BC "college experience" is the entertainment provided from BC sporting events. Students should have first priority on tickets and never be charged an admission price. Has BC's student government ever made this an issue or mounted an organized campaign to get the current policies changed? Has anyone collected data re student sports ticketing policies in place at peer schools? To the students - what do you think is needed to get the policies changed from your perspective? With the costs of a BC education approaching 52k per year - its a bit chicken shit for the school to make it difficult to attend a basketball game.
ryrob {l Wrote}:Dirtywater {l Wrote}:I have always felt that an important part of the BC "college experience" is the entertainment provided from BC sporting events. Students should have first priority on tickets and never be charged an admission price. Has BC's student government ever made this an issue or mounted an organized campaign to get the current policies changed? Has anyone collected data re student sports ticketing policies in place at peer schools? To the students - what do you think is needed to get the policies changed from your perspective? With the costs of a BC education approaching 52k per year - its a bit chicken shit for the school to make it difficult to attend a basketball game.
The free ticket idea has been brought up many times by many people. The answer is always the same: "BC fields the most sports teams in the ACC and they need to be funded."
eepstein0 {l Wrote}:ryrob {l Wrote}:Dirtywater {l Wrote}:I have always felt that an important part of the BC "college experience" is the entertainment provided from BC sporting events. Students should have first priority on tickets and never be charged an admission price. Has BC's student government ever made this an issue or mounted an organized campaign to get the current policies changed? Has anyone collected data re student sports ticketing policies in place at peer schools? To the students - what do you think is needed to get the policies changed from your perspective? With the costs of a BC education approaching 52k per year - its a bit chicken shit for the school to make it difficult to attend a basketball game.
The free ticket idea has been brought up many times by many people. The answer is always the same: "BC fields the most sports teams in the ACC and they need to be funded."
Men's basketball tickets should be free to students. Every game should be a walk up policy. There simply isn't the interest to charge that much money.
ryrob {l Wrote}:eepstein0 {l Wrote}:ryrob {l Wrote}:Dirtywater {l Wrote}:I have always felt that an important part of the BC "college experience" is the entertainment provided from BC sporting events. Students should have first priority on tickets and never be charged an admission price. Has BC's student government ever made this an issue or mounted an organized campaign to get the current policies changed? Has anyone collected data re student sports ticketing policies in place at peer schools? To the students - what do you think is needed to get the policies changed from your perspective? With the costs of a BC education approaching 52k per year - its a bit chicken shit for the school to make it difficult to attend a basketball game.
The free ticket idea has been brought up many times by many people. The answer is always the same: "BC fields the most sports teams in the ACC and they need to be funded."
Men's basketball tickets should be free to students. Every game should be a walk up policy. There simply isn't the interest to charge that much money.
There is not one person who doesn't agree with this. I see the AD's side in this though: when you actually pay for tickets you feel more compelled to go and remember when games are. If it's a walkup policy, attendance might be even worse as our nerd students won't care about most of the games.
branchinator {l Wrote}:Problem is that most students are having their parents pay for the tickets.
TobaccoRoadEagle {l Wrote}:ryrob {l Wrote}:branchinator {l Wrote}:Problem is that most students are having their parents pay for the tickets.
I keep hearing this, but what are you basing that on? I don't know a single person where this was the case.
i'm guessing there are just as many season tickets that never get picked up now as there were back in the early 90s
Shredder {l Wrote}:ryrob {l Wrote}:eepstein0 {l Wrote}:ryrob {l Wrote}:Dirtywater {l Wrote}:I have always felt that an important part of the BC "college experience" is the entertainment provided from BC sporting events. Students should have first priority on tickets and never be charged an admission price. Has BC's student government ever made this an issue or mounted an organized campaign to get the current policies changed? Has anyone collected data re student sports ticketing policies in place at peer schools? To the students - what do you think is needed to get the policies changed from your perspective? With the costs of a BC education approaching 52k per year - its a bit chicken shit for the school to make it difficult to attend a basketball game.
The free ticket idea has been brought up many times by many people. The answer is always the same: "BC fields the most sports teams in the ACC and they need to be funded."
Men's basketball tickets should be free to students. Every game should be a walk up policy. There simply isn't the interest to charge that much money.
There is not one person who doesn't agree with this. I see the AD's side in this though: when you actually pay for tickets you feel more compelled to go and remember when games are. If it's a walkup policy, attendance might be even worse as our nerd students won't care about most of the games.
I agree with free admission and think that it would be good for filling the student sections (in basketball and football) before game time. Athletics probably sees it as poor business because even with empty seats at the less popular games, at least the tickets are sold. I think it's Wake that has a system in which students opt in or opt out for a flat fee that includes admission to any game they can get to as well as some other things. I think that's the best policy. As for it being an issue with UGBC, if it doesn't involve heated bus stops or straw-man issues like the campus being divided, no one will bring it up.
Dirtywater {l Wrote}:Don't mean to sound like the old sage here - but my guess is that all of this could be changed with a little organized effort by a group of interested students. Find out what the other ACC schools have in place and write up what you believe would be an acceptable and fair policy. Get the data on annual gross ticket revenues from student tickets by sport - I bet its insignificant. The benefits of having a full house and major support shown on national television would far outweigh the nickels and dimes Gene's beancounters are collecting. Demand that the UGBC get off its ass and make a case and volunteer to work with them (assemble a large group to meet with them to let them know this is important). Make sure the case is well organized and thought out - and written down in the form of a new policy. Then cast for alumni support - you will get it. Do not go to Gene. This has to be from top down. Unfortunately, nothing ever gets changed unless people who give a shit make an effort. And if nobody wants to bother - then you get what you got. I will be personally happy to lend a hand. Its utterly absurd that we do not have better student attendance at games and it is even more absurd to make it a burden for our students to attend those games. Squeaky wheel always gets the grease guys.
claver2010 {l Wrote}:TobaccoRoadEagle {l Wrote}:ryrob {l Wrote}:branchinator {l Wrote}:Problem is that most students are having their parents pay for the tickets.
I keep hearing this, but what are you basing that on? I don't know a single person where this was the case.
i'm guessing there are just as many season tickets that never get picked up now as there were back in the early 90s
It's just that no one gets season tickets anymore
I haven't heard of people having their parents pay for their tickets either -I don't know where this "majority" thought came from.
AdamBC {l Wrote}:claver2010 {l Wrote}:TobaccoRoadEagle {l Wrote}:ryrob {l Wrote}:branchinator {l Wrote}:Problem is that most students are having their parents pay for the tickets.
I keep hearing this, but what are you basing that on? I don't know a single person where this was the case.
i'm guessing there are just as many season tickets that never get picked up now as there were back in the early 90s
It's just that no one gets season tickets anymore
I haven't heard of people having their parents pay for their tickets either -I don't know where this "majority" thought came from.
Back in the day - or at least when I started at BC (within the last ten years), incoming freshmen would get a letter sent to their homes with ticket prices for the 3 sports. Often parents would buy season tickets for their kids without following up. So a few hundred ticket packages would be purchased and never picked up at the ticket office by the nerds.
ryrob {l Wrote}:eepstein0 {l Wrote}:ryrob {l Wrote}:Dirtywater {l Wrote}:I have always felt that an important part of the BC "college experience" is the entertainment provided from BC sporting events. Students should have first priority on tickets and never be charged an admission price. Has BC's student government ever made this an issue or mounted an organized campaign to get the current policies changed? Has anyone collected data re student sports ticketing policies in place at peer schools? To the students - what do you think is needed to get the policies changed from your perspective? With the costs of a BC education approaching 52k per year - its a bit chicken shit for the school to make it difficult to attend a basketball game.
The free ticket idea has been brought up many times by many people. The answer is always the same: "BC fields the most sports teams in the ACC and they need to be funded."
Men's basketball tickets should be free to students. Every game should be a walk up policy. There simply isn't the interest to charge that much money.
There is not one person who doesn't agree with this. I see the AD's side in this though: when you actually pay for tickets you feel more compelled to go and remember when games are. If it's a walkup policy, attendance might be even worse as our nerd students won't care about most of the games.
innocentbystander {l Wrote}:AdamBC {l Wrote}:claver2010 {l Wrote}:TobaccoRoadEagle {l Wrote}:ryrob {l Wrote}:branchinator {l Wrote}:Problem is that most students are having their parents pay for the tickets.
I keep hearing this, but what are you basing that on? I don't know a single person where this was the case.
i'm guessing there are just as many season tickets that never get picked up now as there were back in the early 90s
It's just that no one gets season tickets anymore
I haven't heard of people having their parents pay for their tickets either -I don't know where this "majority" thought came from.
Back in the day - or at least when I started at BC (within the last ten years), incoming freshmen would get a letter sent to their homes with ticket prices for the 3 sports. Often parents would buy season tickets for their kids without following up. So a few hundred ticket packages would be purchased and never picked up at the ticket office by the nerds.
Orientation at the Naval Academy (while I was trying in vain to get an appointment to Annapolis), I learned about the "Honor Code." You were never to violate the Honor Code. One of the stipulations at the USNA was that if you weren't already an athlete participating in a varsity sport (ie: consuming 20 hours a week of your time not doing academics), you were required (REQUIRED) to attend at least two sporting events a week. And at any moment, a higher ranking cadet could stop you anywhere on campus and demand a full briefing of the last two sporting events you witnessed (who won, who was the leading scorer, etc.) If you LIED about anything, that would be in violation of the Honor Code. And that would surely get you booted from the USNA and right quick....
....and that school was (and still is) filled with nerds.
Nerdification is not an excuse for anything. I think BC should mandate (somehow) that students attend these events. And no, Quidditch does not count.
Bryn Mawr Eagle {l Wrote}:innocentbystander {l Wrote}:AdamBC {l Wrote}:claver2010 {l Wrote}:TobaccoRoadEagle {l Wrote}:ryrob {l Wrote}:branchinator {l Wrote}:Problem is that most students are having their parents pay for the tickets.
I keep hearing this, but what are you basing that on? I don't know a single person where this was the case.
i'm guessing there are just as many season tickets that never get picked up now as there were back in the early 90s
It's just that no one gets season tickets anymore
I haven't heard of people having their parents pay for their tickets either -I don't know where this "majority" thought came from.
Back in the day - or at least when I started at BC (within the last ten years), incoming freshmen would get a letter sent to their homes with ticket prices for the 3 sports. Often parents would buy season tickets for their kids without following up. So a few hundred ticket packages would be purchased and never picked up at the ticket office by the nerds.
Orientation at the Naval Academy (while I was trying in vain to get an appointment to Annapolis), I learned about the "Honor Code." You were never to violate the Honor Code. One of the stipulations at the USNA was that if you weren't already an athlete participating in a varsity sport (ie: consuming 20 hours a week of your time not doing academics), you were required (REQUIRED) to attend at least two sporting events a week. And at any moment, a higher ranking cadet could stop you anywhere on campus and demand a full briefing of the last two sporting events you witnessed (who won, who was the leading scorer, etc.) If you LIED about anything, that would be in violation of the Honor Code. And that would surely get you booted from the USNA and right quick....
....and that school was (and still is) filled with nerds.
Nerdification is not an excuse for anything. I think BC should mandate (somehow) that students attend these events. And no, Quidditch does not count.
1. Are you serious? Requiring student attendance is a spectacularly terrible idea. This isin't f'ing North Korea where we all dance in unison in color-coorinated costumes in some marxist wet dream of support for the National team's players. And the military academy example here is different. That's more of a unit cohesion and esprit de corps idea - plus those kids are not paying tuitioun so they are required to put up with alot more bull**** then would ever be acceptable at a civillian college.
Bryn Mawr Eagle {l Wrote}:2. I never knew you attended the Naval Academy. If you've discussed this previously I apologize for having missed it, but I sense another story opportunity. Do tell, please, about how you came to be there and what happened.
2. I never knew you attended the Naval Academy. If you've discussed this previously I apologize for having missed it, but I sense another story opportunity. Do tell, please, about how you came to be there and what happened.
innocentbystander {l Wrote}:Apparently, getting booted off the team for pre-marital sex (even when you are one of the best players) just before the tourney, is acceptable at some civilian colleges.
innocentbystander {l Wrote}: To mandate that students at least show up for a sporting event or two... I don't think that is that much to ask. You just want to go to school and do no extra-circulars? Try night-school or maybe DeVry.
Dirtywater {l Wrote}: Is there any policy re the use of sold seats that remain unoccupied after x minutes following the start of the game?
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