bamajt said:
Well, the people that want to sit in the student section, but can't get tickets can get the student tickets. All they have to do is enroll at the university, pay full time student tuition fees and fight through all the other students that are wanting those same tickets. No trick to it.
Maybe if those people did not have jobs to go to every day and homes to pay for and children to feed, clothe, and educate maybe they could just drop all their inconsequential responsibilities and enroll in college (many already with their degrees in hand from their first go-around in Tuscaloosa) to get the cheap student tickets that many currently there do not want.
I see the concept of 'consequences for our actions' is not the only thing our youth is not learning.
Really, don't you see the fallacy of trying to argue there are long lines and numerous hoops a UA student has to endure to get much wanted tickets when the fact is plain for all to see that the price (cash or otherwise) is not all that great given the score upon score of empty seats before and during the game in the student section?
The 'trick' to battle off all the other students desiring tickets must not be too hard - else after paying the price to at long last get the tickets they would not be unused in such numbers.
Common sense tells you that the 'price' paid in time and money to get the tickets is not sufficiently high enough to create an incentive that ensures the tickets will actually be used once acquired. So, you either raise the actual monetary cost of the ticket to the students, and/or you increase the hoops a student has to jump through to acquire the ticket in the first place, and/or you restrict the supply, and/or you penalize a student who has a ticket that goes unused (cut off their ability to purchase and use tickets in the future - which might include prohibiting them from purchasing full-price tickets when they become an alum for a period of time).
All viable options given that you have a looooong waiting list of people with jobs and families willing to pay for the opportunity to attend games at far higher tangible and intrinsic costs than a student must endure.