Student Iickets

Market sets the price.


As a school, I can't deprive them of the chance to order tickets. So the only other ways I could prevent it is if I 1. Become strict on you can only use your own ticket (which would be wildly unpopular with all the students) or 2. Expand the student section (which wIll cut into my revenue)

So the only real solution is if those freshman try to hold out until the price goes down. Luckily I was fortunate enough to get a full season my freshman year. I had plenty of friends that managed to find season tickets at a much better price than the Asian students asked for.

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here aren't enough student tickets for the demand.

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At a lot of schools its a much bigger problem

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Many (most?) freshmen don't get season tickets

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sucks being a freshmen

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What is the solution to this problem?

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There isn't one. It and parking go hand in hand

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What is the solution to this problem?

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Students start showing up earlier and staying later. Hard to justify taking seats from cash paying fans and giving discounted tickets to students who are drunk and barely make it to halftime

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There aren't enough student tickets for the demand.

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There aren't enough student tickets to meet the demand for big games. You will have a hard time giving your tickets away for the non FBS Power5 games

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The international students (Chinese primarily),

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How do you curb this Chinese black market?

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Curbing the resale market is one of the dumbest things you can do. Right now you have a large number of suppliers trying to sell goods to someone who values it cash wise more than they do.

I know a bunch of "non international" students who are willing to sell season tickets for 400-500$ because that $300 profit is worth more than going to the game.


If you somehow restrict the resale market, there likely will be a large number of people who value the tickets at $140 but not at $300 (profit from selling). Therefor, you will have an even larger shortage of tickets as you decreased the price while simultaneously reduced suppliers.

I literally never had an issue getting student tickets to every home game when I was going through auburn my first time around. Even as a freshman, I still got every home game. I'm assuming it's gotten more difficult?

My freshman year was 2006