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re: Over 1/2 of Alabama Season Ticket Holders are not Alums
Posted on 10/10/13 at 5:23 pm to bamasgot13
Posted on 10/10/13 at 5:23 pm to bamasgot13
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As stated earlier, people often leave Alabama upon graduation to go to Houston, Atlanta, Nashville, etc for jobs. Those that are local, didn't attend the University, and have the income to support owning season tickets have the right to do so. Why should Alabama apologize for having broad appeal? It's a stupid argument people make.
That doesn't say much for Alabama then if most of their grads leave and lack the income to make it back to campus for football games on weekends. A lot of State alumns I know who olive outside Mississippi still make it back to Starkville on most weekends of football season.
This post was edited on 10/10/13 at 5:26 pm
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Posted on 10/10/13 at 5:24 pm to TeLeFaWx
I've agreed on all of your points, and offered an explanation that makes sense, but you still don't seem to find it reasonable, so...
By the way, I LOVE Alabama football and can't stand the Fighting Irish. But if my daughter were given a scholarship to both, I'd do everything I could to talk her into going to Notre Dame.
By the way, I LOVE Alabama football and can't stand the Fighting Irish. But if my daughter were given a scholarship to both, I'd do everything I could to talk her into going to Notre Dame.
Posted on 10/10/13 at 5:26 pm to therick711
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I absolutely love the assumption that this has to be attributed to the fact that Alabama grads are off to set the world on fire, leaving behind the ingrates to populate the stadium.
No one views supporters of the team as ingrates. They just tend to follow and support the teams - not the University.
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There is no support for that view and none is even superficially given
Alabama Alumni Chapters in 25 states
Does this support the theory that they aren't all staying in state upon graduation?
Posted on 10/10/13 at 5:29 pm to Crimson Legend
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I've agreed on all of your points, and offered an explanation that makes sense, but you still don't seem to find it reasonable, so...
I contend that your explanation makes sense, but it isn't the point originally being made to what that gump was saying.
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By the way, I LOVE Alabama football and can't stand the Fighting Irish. But if my daughter were given a scholarship to both, I'd do everything I could to talk her into going to Notre Dame.
Sort of a non-sequitor, but I understand the sentiment about want your daughter to have a great education. We always want what is better for our children. Luckily A&M is just as good, and in a lot of instances better than tu, or I would be in your shoes. I hope I'm not put in the scenario where my kid could go to Tech or Baylor for free, and not get in to Texas A&M. It would be tough for me to tell them to turn down a free education to try and transfer their way in through a community college.
Posted on 10/10/13 at 5:30 pm to bamasgot13
No one said they all are or aren't. Also, let's get straight what we're talking about. We are talking about who owns tickets. There is absolutely no requirement that you live in Alabama to have season tickets. The causal link you are assuming, that because some people leave means that no one is left to own those tickets, is dumb and unsupported.
For instance, if the Alabama season ticket policy is anything like that of most colleges, then tickets can be transferred upon death to children. Over time, kids get tickets from alumni parents though they themselves never attended.
Notice how that could have happened, but I'm not apportioning all of the cause to that, because that would be reckless and dumb without further information.
For instance, if the Alabama season ticket policy is anything like that of most colleges, then tickets can be transferred upon death to children. Over time, kids get tickets from alumni parents though they themselves never attended.
Notice how that could have happened, but I'm not apportioning all of the cause to that, because that would be reckless and dumb without further information.
This post was edited on 10/10/13 at 5:32 pm
Posted on 10/10/13 at 5:34 pm to therick711
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therick711
do me a quick favor - tell me why it matters that over 1/2 of Alabama season ticket holders are not alums? Tell me why I should care? Thanks.
Posted on 10/10/13 at 5:36 pm to bamasgot13
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do me a quick favor - tell me why it matters that over 1/2 of Alabama season ticket holders are not alums? Tell me why I should care? Thanks.
You apparently need to be told a lot of things, so your request for help is a good start. You should care if you, yourself are an alumni and want tickets but they are occupied by people with only a tenuous if any connection to the school. Alternatively, you might care if you are a toothless hillbilly who just loved good ole suthren football as embodied by the Bear, and you like cheering for a school that is happy to take the money of the highest bidder, without regard to whether you actually reflect back favorably on the school by what you do in life because you were a graduate.
Neither position is inherently right or wrong, but those would be the two most common reasons one could care about that.
This post was edited on 10/10/13 at 5:38 pm
Posted on 10/10/13 at 5:38 pm to Golfer
that is great. but, at least alabama did not have to downsize when it remodeled BDS.
"Capacity is listed at 70,138, down from 72,500 in the previous configuration. Season-ticket holders currently number 46,073, down from the high of 50,000 during the James era, but an increase over a drop to 39,000 during the program malaise"
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"Capacity is listed at 70,138, down from 72,500 in the previous configuration. Season-ticket holders currently number 46,073, down from the high of 50,000 during the James era, but an increase over a drop to 39,000 during the program malaise"
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Posted on 10/10/13 at 5:38 pm to Golfer
OP - Desperately seeking something negative about Alabama
Posted on 10/10/13 at 5:46 pm to Golfer
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Over 1/2 of Alabama Season Ticket Holders are not Alums
It's probably because so many Bama fans went to private universities in the northeast.
Posted on 10/10/13 at 5:51 pm to Golfer
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Over 1/2 of Alabama Season Ticket Holders are not Alums
This topic is one of the dumbest things people harp on
I am not a Auburn alum. I have had season tickets for a very long time. I have probably been to more college football games that 90% of the people on this board.
But what does that actually mean.
Nothing.
Posted on 10/10/13 at 5:52 pm to Politiceaux
What was this? 
Posted on 10/10/13 at 5:55 pm to Y.A. Tittle
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What was this?
SMU cheerleaders were on their field. They too exception to it. Challenged them to a duel or some weird shite.
Posted on 10/10/13 at 5:58 pm to CatFan81
Dude really took out his fricking sword?
Posted on 10/10/13 at 5:59 pm to Golfer
As a Bama fan and alumni, this stat really pisses me off.
Posted on 10/10/13 at 6:01 pm to Golfer
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Over 1/2 of Alabama Season Ticket Holders are not Alums
That's nuts.
Posted on 10/10/13 at 6:01 pm to Y.A. Tittle
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Dude really took out his fricking sword?
Yep. I don't think they're allowed to carry them anymore because of that.
Posted on 10/10/13 at 6:01 pm to Golfer
Looks like crystal ball envy.
Posted on 10/10/13 at 6:03 pm to LanierSpots
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I am not a Auburn alum. I have had season tickets for a very long time. I have probably been to more college football games that 90% of the people on this board.
True that.
I always found it astounding that people who make the criticism will certainly alienate their fellow fans whose support allows for their school to have some of the nicer things, all to make what they perceive to be as a slam at another school.
I am a UA alum, but my dad wasn't and it was because of him that I grew up a 'Bama fan. He sent two sons to UA. Non-alums can contribute as well.
Posted on 10/10/13 at 6:05 pm to Golfer
So what
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