🏈 Alabama reviewing mass exodus of students from Bryant-Denny Stadium, could nix block seating

[jocephus8179]

What's the point of including that line?

To start the race debate that you and Tim are having.....and they succeeded tremendously. :shake:

 

[TerryP]

To start the race debate that you and Tim are having.....and they succeeded tremendously. :shake:

No, that's not the case at all.

The author did a great job of explaining her position and how it had context in the conversation.

 

[PhillyGirl]

Gotta say, Alabama's stadiumgoers do not impress me. Many do not seem that into the game. The student section is pretty weak, especially compared to other schools. But this is just what I gather on TV, is it different in real life?

For example, I follow Penn State games and even in games they are likely to lose, or games that aren't close, or games against cupcakes, the fans are INTENSE and way into it. Beaver Stadium, to me, would be an extremely intimidating and loud place to play. Those fans are IN IT, and are there all game. I mean, there's not much else over in Happy Valley sooo I can see why!

Perhaps the Alabama students/fans are becoming complacent, with all of the success.

I still need to actually attend a game .. meh. Only college football games I've been to are Lafayette (dad is an alum), Temple and Maryland, though Maryland fans are LOUD and PROUD for a lesser ACC football power. That is a really fun crowd.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

I'm late getting back, in Dallas this week for meetings.

For me, this isn't about race, it's about finding the best venue to address as much of the problem in one fell swoop as possible. I'm unaware of any white fraternities (who represent the majority of block seating, and very recently was all of it) who are not part of the IFC and couldn't be reached, definitively, within that venue.

I looked and during 2011 every group that applied for block seating got it. Had someone been excluded, I believe the first ranking factor is GPA.

The reporter adequately (in my view) explained her rationale for including white fraternities in her article. The average reader (not us Bama fans) is unaware of the concept of block seating and who gets the lion's share of those prime student seats.

Those White Boyz need to cheer the team, or hang by the keg and give their tix to others.

RTR,

Tim

 

[jocephus8179]

No, that's not the case at all.

The author did a great job of explaining her position and how it had context in the conversation.

You asked. Lol. But i thought the same thing you did when i read that line...and i knew it was coming. Lol

 

[bamaraider]

Gotta say, Alabama's stadiumgoers do not impress me. Many do not seem that into the game. The student section is pretty weak, especially compared to other schools. But this is just what I gather on TV, is it different in real life?

For example, I follow Penn State games and even in games they are likely to lose, or games that aren't close, or games against cupcakes, the fans are INTENSE and way into it. Beaver Stadium, to me, would be an extremely intimidating and loud place to play. Those fans are IN IT, and are there all game. I mean, there's not much else over in Happy Valley sooo I can see why!

Perhaps the Alabama students/fans are becoming complacent, with all of the success.

I still need to actually attend a game .. meh. Only college football games I've been to are Lafayette (dad is an alum), Temple and Maryland, though Maryland fans are LOUD and PROUD for a lesser ACC football power. That is a really fun crowd.

Alabama has a lot of older alumni and blue hair fans. Its getting better, but the atmosphere has always been kind of bland. Hell I remember back against North Texas in 2002, we scored a TD, people around me were golf clapping.

The atmosphere is different when experiencing a game, but you won't see the student section do anything like you see at Penn State, Wisconsin, LSU, etc.. That's one thing I do wish that would change. I hardly ever hear the "Lets go Bama" cheer anymore, and I do miss the Rammer Jammers during the game.

 

[MissingRing]

Saban right. Students (who leave early) wrong. End of story.

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

I've said this before and I'll continue saying it. Students (i.e. greeks mostly) who leave early, suck. Plain and simple. No excuse for it. I got there early and always stayed until the clock hit 0:00 when I was a student, and that was during the Shula years when we lost a lot of those games. I would have killed (literally killed people) for an opportunity to be at UA during a run like this... and students are checking out at halftime? Screw that. If you are a student leaving at halftime because want to go drink some bourbon or can't wait another 2 hours to get laid, then I hope you get heart worms, and your tickets go to someone who'd actually enjoy being at the games.

 

[JoshB]

I've never ever understood the thought process in spending all the money it costs to attend a game (tickets which r already high as hell, parking, food, gas, etc.) just to leave the game early. It makes no sense to me. If im spending upwards of $100 for a ticket to a game I'm staying for every damn second.

 

[bama alum]

Embarrassing story about how naive some freshmen can be. A friend of mine from high school and I didn't know or understand that students needed to be at the stadium when the gates opened to be able to find a decent seat. She and I walked in about five minutes before kick off. Student section of course was packed out. The only place where we lowly GDIs could find a seat was in the corner of the front row of the Greek section. We were harassed for a good while; one SOB threatened to have us arrested if we didn't leave. We didn't; nothing ever happened to us.

Clearly, we learned our lesson and showed up early from then on. It always pissed me off to see the freshmen frat boys holding up their banners and saving seats for the upper class men fraternity brothers who could saunter in when they felt like it while the lowly other people (the other 70% of student body were packed like sardines in the other part of the student section).

What CNS is commenting on isn't exactly a new phenomenon either. I would love nothing more than to see the university do away with that block seating crap.





(rant over)

 

[riz]

I'll show my age a little here, but when I was a student the block seating was an issue, too. But more in the sense of the stupidity of it. We had to get there early as hell just to get a seat because the greeks had so many "reserved." I couldn't count the number of games that we stood against the back wall and watched the games, which these days would be akin to standing at the top of the lower level. I don't really remember the frat boys leaving early en masse back then, though. Of course that was so long ago that I don't remember much of anything, really.

I think the student section has probably gotten too big, and the way the tickets are distributed makes it virtually impossible for the students to sell them if they aren't going to use them.

 

[TerryP]

I'll show my age a little here, but when I was a student the block seating was an issue, too. But more in the sense of the stupidity of it. We had to get there early as hell just to get a seat because the greeks had so many "reserved." I couldn't count the number of games that we stood against the back wall and watched the games, which these days would be akin to standing at the top of the lower level. I don't really remember the frat boys leaving early en masse back then, though. Of course that was so long ago that I don't remember much of anything, really.

I think the student section has probably gotten too big, and the way the tickets are distributed makes it virtually impossible for the students to sell them if they aren't going to use them.

As long as the buyer (student) is eligible for tickets, it's my understanding it isn't that difficult to transfer a ticket to someone else. It's all done with their action cards.

 

[planomateo]

Pretty sad that the HC has to "beg" people to stay at a game during this football run. We need to stop scheduling some of these teams as well.