Student Tickets (Merged)

[Fungo Squiggly]

Nobody has a vested right to anything. If the school wanted to, they could give the both students and the alumni the finger and let the tickets sell at the price the market determines.

The students absolutely should have priorities to tickets over the alumni and they do. Factor in that the tickets are half-price and I don't know how much anyone can really complain about that. It's still a pretty sweet deal.

Even if the students are stuck in the endzones, it still a hell of a lot better than being stuck behind a pillar in B-deck trying to watch the game on a monitor showing everything from the reverse camera angle. :p

 

[buckeyesin07]

so you're saying being a student at the college where the game is being played doesn't give them a "vested right" to sit in good seats? how can you possibly justify that?

Your position is laughable here--you seem to believe that if OSU decided tomorrow that it would no longer offer football tickets to its students, OSU students would have some sort of actionable claim against the university. Let me put it this way, for OSU students to have some right to purchase football tickets, there must be some law or rule that you can point to giving them such a right. Otherwise, the students are simply the beneficiary of a privilege bestowed upon them by OSU. Your opinion that they should be entitled to purchase tickets doesn't give them anything.

 

[SchoolPsychBuck]

Thanks for the heads up

 

[Electron Boy]

Your position is laughable here--you seem to believe that if OSU decided tomorrow that it would no longer offer football tickets to its students, OSU students would have some sort of actionable claim against the university. Let me put it this way, for OSU students to have some right to purchase football tickets, there must be some law or rule that you can point to giving them such a right. Otherwise, the students are simply the beneficiary of a privilege bestowed upon them by OSU. Your opinion that they should be entitled to purchase tickets doesn't give them anything.

oh for God's sake, no one is talking about a legal right. obviously no one has a specific legal right to football tickets, that's ridiculous. i'm simply responding to the OP having a legitimate gripe about his seating being moved. does OSU have the right to move his seats where ever they want to or even not sell him tickets, period? of course. but acting like that's a legitimate response to someone who has given a lot to the university is pretty weak.

no one is "entitled" to tickets in the legal sense, but this is a college setting and believe it or not, students and their opinions and perceptions matter. it's cute to hide behind the "well, it's really more of a business than anything so that's all that matters" ideal, but we both know that's not how it works. students may not actually matter in the immediate future in terms of profits and margins and so on, but in the long run and from a PR standpoint, the administration and the sports department sure as hell likes to pretend that those students matter.

in any case, yeah, i do think it's a legit gripe if someone who had AA tickets now has to sit in C deck. if that happens to enough students, and they complain about it, it will change. the last thing OSU wants to do is irritate future donors.

 

[buckeyesin07]

if that happens to enough students, and they complain about it, it will change. the last thing OSU wants to do is irritate future donors.

Like I said before, if you and/or the original poster think you're getting ripped off by OSU's new policy, don't buy the tickets. Let's just say that I strongly doubt that there will be enough students who do so such that OSU will revise its policy. Indeed, there are tens of thousands of people in Columbus alone that would jump at the opportunity to sit ANYWHERE in the stadium for $30/ticket.

 

[Gatorubet]

Published: Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Updated: Saturday, July 26, 2008

**********:Site.openWin('/polopoly_...ives/landscape_260/2176419963.jpg', 250, 182)Alex Gilbert

In a recent study by The Crimson White, it was found 16 percent of
seats at Bryant-Denny Stadium are allotted to students, making the
University the third-lowest of the larger SEC schools surveyed.
Florida topped the list, giving out 24 percent of tickets for Ben Hill Griffin
Stadium to students. Though the University is one of the lowest for percent
of stadium allotted to students, it has the highest rank in percentage of
students given a chance to purchase tickets.

Out of the approximately 23,000 students at the Capstone, 65 percent
have the ability to buy tickets. The next-highest percentage is the University
of Tennessee, which gives 56 percent of its students a chance to purchase tickets.
how many
http://www.cw.ua.edu/2.4648/1.452809

Just wondering, your place is so big compared to ours, how many students get tickets?

We have no "student section", but put a ring of students around the field. The group seating is rotated so you have one game on the 50 and another in the end zone. At LSU they are all in the one end zone, so it is loud when you are driving one side of the field, but not so bad the other way (OK it's bad - just not as bad )

What Big-10 Field (besides yours, which may be the natin's leader in loud stadiums) do you hate to play at most because of the noise?

 

[Mac]

I'm going to be a SR this year and my freshman year I had tickets (by myself which was kind of weird) but they were right above the Ramp entrance. SO and JR I was in Block O, and this upcomming year I will be in the South Stands. Honestly as long as I'm not in the top corners or so, I'm happy.

But I like the idea of Students all sitting together, I think it will help with the noise level in both ends of the end zone which is great. I wish they would do this with Basketball and move us down low

 

[Mac]

Published: Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Updated: Saturday, July 26, 2008

Alex Gilbert

In a recent study by The Crimson White, it was found 16 percent of
seats at Bryant-Denny Stadium are allotted to students, making the
University the third-lowest of the larger SEC schools surveyed.
Florida topped the list, giving out 24 percent of tickets for Ben Hill Griffin
Stadium to students. Though the University is one of the lowest for percent
of stadium allotted to students, it has the highest rank in percentage of
students given a chance to purchase tickets.

Out of the approximately 23,000 students at the Capstone, 65 percent
have the ability to buy tickets. The next-highest percentage is the University
of Tennessee, which gives 56 percent of its students a chance to purchase tickets.
how many
Crimson White - UA student football section allotment below average

Just wondering, your place is so big compared to ours, how many students get tickets?

We have no "student section", but put a ring of students around the field. The group seating is rotated so you have one game on the 50 and another in the end zone. At LSU they are all in the one end zone, so it is loud when you are driving one side of the field, but not so bad the other way (OK it's bad - just not as bad )

What Big-10 Field (besides yours, which may be the natin's leader in loud stadiums) do you hate to play at most because of the noise?

I believe we give out around 30,000 tickets to students, somewhere in that ball park. The Big house really isn't THAT loud, but PSU is very loud and Wiscy can be loud if they are having a good year

 

[fourteenandoh]

Uh, I think students are paying $10K a year for an education and work full time at OSU to make a living, not for the right to buy football tickets.

i think you overestimate about 80% of the students. did you attend OSU? I'm just curious because most people i know purposely schedule an extra quarter their 5th or 6th year just to get football tickets.

 

[Mac]

i think you overestimate about 80% of the students. did you attend OSU? I'm just curious because most people i know purposely schedule an extra quarter their 5th or 6th year just to get football tickets.

I will have to be going a 5th year since I changed my major and I will for sure be buying tickets, but school definitely gets pushed aside (sort of) during falls

 

[rocketman]

To answer Gatorubet's question, around 31,000 students bought tickets last year. That probably puts us at at the top for student ticket sales, but I suppose when you have one of the largest enrollments in the nation (and a pretty good football team with some semblance of tradition) lots of students will buy.

Nothing would be sweeter to me than to have every student sitting in the closed end of the Shoe. Have the section start at the 10 yard line and wrap all the way around. That way the seniors and grad students could get good seats, while the froshies and underclassmen get the nosebleeds. I would have been totally fine with that during my time at OSU.

 

[CleveBucks]

That's awesome. Been waiting for the day when they finally try to unify the various student sections. The ideal in my mind would be the entire south stands, then continue north on the other side of the OSU tunnel in AA all the way up to C deck. That would give you two unified sections adjacent to each other on either side of the tunnel. It would massively outdo every other student section in the country. As big as PSU's section looks on TV, they only have around 21k seats. OSU tops that by another 50% at over 30k.

 

[Bucknut24]

eh, don't really care where my seats are going to be as long as it's not b deck

 

[Buckeye86]

ESPN has a breakdown of the percentages of tickets that go to students in their college preview mag, Ohio State gave around 29% of the tickets available to students, several schools gave higher percentages (Texas A&M and Washington State and maybe one or two more I think) but since Ohio State has a larger stadium than any school that gave a larger percentage that means that we have more students in the stadium than any other school, just spread out a little bit more than in stadiums that have notorious student sections, like Happy Valley.

 

[NastyNatiBuck]

Uh, I think students are paying $10K a year for an education and work full time at OSU to make a living, not for the right to buy football tickets.

I'll be honest, a huge reason I went to OSU was for the football tickets. I would've gone to a better engineering school if I was looking solely at academics.

And by the way, if you work full time at OSU, you get free tuition.