Spring Break
Ticket policy found flawed
New policies disappoint
MANDI WOODRUFF
Issue date: 8/27/07 Section: News
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Although 18,026 students will line up this week to receive their football tickets, others resent the University for not allotting more student tickets despite the new ticketing process.
Students received e-mails this weekend confirming the type of ticket package they were awarded.
TICKET PICKUP
Where: Stegeman Coliseum ticket booths 1,2,3, and 4
What Time: 5 to 9 p.m.
What Day:
Monday Aug. 27: Students with 65 or more UGA credit hours
Tuesday Aug. 28: Students with 50 or more UGA credit hours
Wednesday Aug. 29: Students with 15 or more UGA credit hours
Thursday Aug. 30: Students with fewer than 15 UGA credit hours or all new students
Students may pick up four other season packages with the UGAID of the person whose tickets they are
claiming.Following a recent change in ticket distribution policy, there have been complaints pertaining to students who were not issued the correct allotment of tickets.
"My son was really upset and disillusioned," James Lavender said of his son Matthew, a freshman from Dunwoody, who received three of the seven home game tickets.
"It seems that it is at the expense of the students when the stadium holds 90,000 and there are 30,000 students, but not all students get season tickets," Lavender said. "Something's missing.
It should be for the students."
Josh White, a junior from Fayetteville, started a Facebook group called "UGA 2007 Football," where students can exchange their tickets with students who did not receive tickets to the game. White said he got the full season package.
"I haven't had any problems (with registration)," he said.
Total credit hours do not ensure that upperclassmen will receive full season packages, according to www.georgiadogs.com, but they will be allowed to pick up their tickets before other students.
Students who have 65 or more credit hours can pick up their tickets today at Stegemen Coliseum from 5 to 9 p.m., the email said.
Students received e-mails this weekend confirming the type of ticket package they were awarded.
TICKET PICKUP
INFORMATION
Where: Stegeman Coliseum ticket booths 1,2,3, and 4What Time: 5 to 9 p.m.
What Day:
Monday Aug. 27: Students with 65 or more UGA credit hours
Tuesday Aug. 28: Students with 50 or more UGA credit hours
Wednesday Aug. 29: Students with 15 or more UGA credit hours
Thursday Aug. 30: Students with fewer than 15 UGA credit hours or all new students
Students may pick up four other season packages with the UGAID of the person whose tickets they are
claiming.
"My son was really upset and disillusioned," James Lavender said of his son Matthew, a freshman from Dunwoody, who received three of the seven home game tickets.
"It seems that it is at the expense of the students when the stadium holds 90,000 and there are 30,000 students, but not all students get season tickets," Lavender said. "Something's missing.
It should be for the students."
Josh White, a junior from Fayetteville, started a Facebook group called "UGA 2007 Football," where students can exchange their tickets with students who did not receive tickets to the game. White said he got the full season package.
"I haven't had any problems (with registration)," he said.
Total credit hours do not ensure that upperclassmen will receive full season packages, according to www.georgiadogs.com, but they will be allowed to pick up their tickets before other students.
Students who have 65 or more credit hours can pick up their tickets today at Stegemen Coliseum from 5 to 9 p.m., the email said.
Viewing Comments 1 - 10 of 20
Nick
posted 8/27/07 @ 10:28 AM EST
Boo hoo freshmen, looks like a lot of you will have to take part in what is becoming the unofficial tradition of paying 80 bucks for an Auburn ticket. (Continued…)
You're dumb and here's why
posted 8/27/07 @ 12:42 PM EST
I don't want to hear what the freshman think they deserve. When I was a freshman, you either received the full schedule or none at all, and I received the latter. (Continued…)
taints
posted 8/27/07 @ 12:44 PM EST
its not just freshman that got half season packages...its sophmores and juniors too
Ken
posted 8/27/07 @ 12:52 PM EST
At Tennessee every single student that wants a ticket gets one. At Georgia money is what comes first and the Athletic Association could care less about the students. (Continued…)
CoastalDawg
posted 8/27/07 @ 1:00 PM EST
With as much tuition and other fees as it costs to attend UGA now, it would seem as if football tickets would be the first thing granted to a full time student. (Continued…)
Ken
posted 8/27/07 @ 1:07 PM EST
Let us not forget that the president of the Athletic Association is in fact Michael Adams. Also, ALL of the money that is received by the Athletic Association stays in athletics. (Continued…)
Clairez
Claire
posted 8/27/07 @ 2:55 PM EST
I am a sophomore. I received 3 tickets. I have 3 roommates: 2 sophomores and one junior. One sophomore and the junior received 4 tickets, whereas the other sophomore received the entire package. (Continued…)
Walter
posted 8/27/07 @ 3:56 PM EST
At least football tickets are still reasonably priced for students. The true athletic scam is the golf course ... 45$ to ride on the weekend? Its a complete rip-off to charge students that much money, never mind the 55$ asked of alumni. (Continued…)
Baffled
posted 8/27/07 @ 4:17 PM EST
I agree with the absurdity of freshmen being upset at not receiving the full Home schedule. Twice before registering during my Freshman year I was told of the system generally used at UGA. (Continued…)
David Thorpe
posted 8/27/07 @ 5:30 PM EST
18, 026 student tickets out of a 92, 746 stadium does seem like a low percentage. However, how do you expect the ticket association to give a larger proportion of tickets to students when we can't even fill our entire section until the 2nd quarter for most games? It is downright embarrassing to see the student section of the upper deck half empty at kickoff for some of the lesser games. (Continued…)
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