First of all, if the ticket office wanted to make sure everyone got a chance to get season tickets because everyone paid the same athletic fee, I didn't get a ticket, so I would like a reimbursement for my athletic fee. I know it's things such as that fee that allow the individual game lottery tickets to be free, but I'd rather just pay for it on a game-by-game basis since the tickets are only $9.
That would most likely be cheaper since nobody wins all the individual game lotteries anyway. Also, I'd like to know why they're all of a sudden concerned about being fair to the freshmen?
When I was a freshman (two years ago), I couldn't get season tickets. None of us complained about it then because it was sort of a seniority thing, which we understood, but now keeping freshmen out of season tickets is not fair? I don't understand that one bit. If I was not able to get tickets my freshman year, there is no way some freshman this year who probably couldn't name me two people on our basketball team should be sitting in my seat.
Finally, the fact that there are only 1,500 season tickets in a 10,000-seat stadium blows my mind. There clearly need to be seats set aside for the individual game lotteries, and the alumni, but more than 8,500 of them?
I'm sure Seth Greenberg would agree that it is obviously the students, not the alumni, who make the crowd what it is. Cut some alumni seats -- they have enough of them at football games. At the very least, there should be a second lottery excluding freshmen.
Drew Clare
junior, HNFE
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I have never even bought a ticket to or even attended a Tech sports game so why do I have to pay an athletic fee? It's a complete waste of my money.
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First off, if you are aren't paying an athletic fee, then the tickets won't be $9 each, they'll be $40 each, just like the alumni have to pay. There's 9,847 seats in Cassell. About 2,750 are student seats according to Jim Weaver on Monday's Hokie Hotline radio show. That's 27.9% of the seats in Cassell set aside for students. Lane Stadium seats 66,233, 17,000 are for students, so that's 25.7%. So why complain about the amount of students to alumni in Cassell? For Anonymous below: I've never used War Memorial Gym or McComas and don't play on a club team or play intramurals, so can I have my Rec Sports Fee back too since it's a non-refundable mandatory fee for all students in residence, both graduate and undergraduate, for support of intramural and extramural sport club programs and recreational activities of the university which are coordinated by the Department of Recreational Sports.
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I'm sure that it feels like the whole world is against you as a poor, put-upon student. However, when you realize that in a few short years, you will be one of those lame alums who wants to see the game too. Fact is the atletic fee pays for all the students to enjoy sporting activities, from football games to basketball games, from intramural flag-football to pumping iron in War Memorial. In all honesty its a small fee, and those who want to enjoy the more expensive activities pay a little more later on. I certaintly understand your feelings that the students do contribute more to the atmostphere at games than alumni do. Yet, you forget that alums like myself actuallty are the ones who started the tradition of "Rocking the Cassell." So in short, respect your elders, one day you will be one of them...
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Mr. Alumni, you've had your time as a student, being the most important contributor to the atmostphere in your time...why can't us "poor, put-upon students" have our time? Also yes, maybe the same percentages are set aside for Cassell and Lane, however Lane Stadium is full every single game, no matter who we're playing, however for basketball games like the first one of the season against gardner-webb....there will undoubtedly be many unoccupied seats, since the alumni holding them won't be bothered to show up.
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And if the past is any indicator, half the students won't even show up for the G-W basketball game. Is the point here that only current students are inextricably tied to the success of the athletic teams? What in the world would make anyone believe that alumni who go out of their way to obtain tickets are somehow 'second tier fans?' Or that they love Hokie Athletics less than anyone else?
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