🏈 Block seating for several UA student orgs has been suspended for UT game due to Arkansas game attend

[TerryP]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>RT <a href="https://twitter.com/alcomTuscaloosa">@alcomTuscaloosa</a> Block seating for several UA student orgs has been suspended for UT game due to Arkansas game attendance</p>&mdash; Andrew Gribble (@Andrew_Gribble) <a href="https://twitter.com/Andrew_Gribble/statuses/393820171556503552">October 25, 2013</a></blockquote>
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[PhillyGirl]

Whoa. So who gets to sit there now? Regular students?

 

[It Takes Eleven]

Who?

 

[TerryP]

I just caught the tweet when I glanced at the Today's News page...I don't know.

 

[TerryP]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>SGA won't release names of which orgs are suspended, but said they will release a map later so students know where they can sit.</p>&mdash; Melissa Brown (@itsmelissabrown) <a href="https://twitter.com/itsmelissabrown/statuses/393824869588029440">October 25, 2013</a></blockquote>
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[planomateo]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p>Working on getting the names of orgs, but here's a map of the current lower bowl seating chart from <a href="https://twitter.com/TheCrimsonWhite">@TheCrimsonWhite</a> <a href="http://t.co/K4e622nt4A">http://t.co/K4e622nt4A</a></p>&mdash; Melissa Brown (@itsmelissabrown) <a href="https://twitter.com/itsmelissabrown/statuses/393820713120849920">October 25, 2013</a></blockquote>
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[TerryP]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Approximately 20 organizations have been suspended, per UA SGA spokeswoman.</p>&mdash; Melissa Brown (@itsmelissabrown) <a href="https://twitter.com/itsmelissabrown/statuses/393821759691972608">October 25, 2013</a></blockquote>
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Out of 36...

 

[BAMANEWSBOT]

Alabama suspends 20 of 36 block seating sections in Bryant-Denny Stadium for Tennessee game

The University of Alabama suspended the block seating privileges of 20 student organizations Friday afternoon following a review of the student section during last week's game against Arkansas.
The suspension, the first sanction against all organizations, will only be in effect during Saturday's Tennessee game.


Leela Foley, the Student Government Association press secretary, said the SGA will not release the names of suspended groups.


However, the block seating suspension means the majority of the South end zone will be open for free-for-all student seating, so it is currently unclear where students may and may not sit.


Foley said a map of the revised block seating will be either released later today or be posted in the student section so students know where they can go.


This is the current seating map of block seating organizations in Bryant-Denny Stadium. "Approximately 20" of these organizations' seating privileges have been suspended for the Tennessee game. (University of Alabama SGA)


In the Student Organization Seating handbook, updated in July 2013, "excessive tardiness or early departure from the stadium" is listed as "unacceptable behavior."


According to the handbook, an organization's first offense would result in the loss of block seating for the next conference game and the second offense would result in the loss of seating for all remaining games.


Both sanctions would also include a point deduction on the organization's block seating application for the 2014 year.


Organizations would be banned from applying for block seating in 2014 if levied with a third offense.


"SGA will continue to encourage sustained student attendance at football games," SGA President Jimmy Taylor said in a prepared statement released Tuesday. "We are currently and will always research other programs and initiatives to support this goal and any other goals that work to enhance the student experience at The University of Alabama."






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[planomateo]

This guy was trying to get all the attention today.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p>Alabama One Credit Union Robbery Suspect. Call 205-752-STOP $10,000 reward if your info leads to an arrest! <a href="http://t.co/ctQjZqZHan">pic.twitter.com/ctQjZqZHan</a></p>&mdash; Tuscaloosa Police (@TuscaloosaPD) <a href="https://twitter.com/TuscaloosaPD/statuses/393814623582818304">October 25, 2013</a></blockquote>
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[planomateo]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Alabama suspends 20 of 36 block seating sections in Bryant-Denny Stadium for Tennessee game <a href="http://t.co/38hXsZoU6p">http://t.co/38hXsZoU6p</a></p>&mdash; Melissa Brown (@itsmelissabrown) <a href="https://twitter.com/itsmelissabrown/statuses/393829240954564608">October 25, 2013</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/RollTideBama">@RollTideBama</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Andrew_Gribble">@Andrew_Gribble</a> SGA won't tell me names, but will eventually have to so students know where they can and can't sit.</p>&mdash; Melissa Brown (@itsmelissabrown) <a href="https://twitter.com/itsmelissabrown/statuses/393830074194989058">October 25, 2013</a></blockquote>
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[Brandon Van de Graaff]

Roll GDI's!

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

This guy was trying to get all the attention today.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p>Alabama One Credit Union Robbery Suspect. Call 205-752-STOP $10,000 reward if your info leads to an arrest! <a href="http://t.co/ctQjZqZHan">pic.twitter.com/ctQjZqZHan</a></p>&mdash; Tuscaloosa Police (@TuscaloosaPD) <a href="https://twitter.com/TuscaloosaPD/statuses/393814623582818304">October 25, 2013</a></blockquote>
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I think every restaurant and business in town has been robbed or burglarized in the past 2 weeks.

 

[BAMANEWSBOT]

Alabama suspends some of its student seating

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Some Alabama student organizations have had their block seating suspended for Saturday’s home game against Tennessee, Melissa Brown of AL.com reports.

The news comes only a few days after The Crimson White, Alabama’s student newspaper, reported that student government association president Jimmy Taylor stressed the importance of attendance in an email to student leaders last week.

Taylor sent an email on [Oct. 17] to leaders of organizations with block seating privileges stating there could be consequences if their members left the game early and reminding them of an agreement they signed to stay for all four quarters.


“I am sending this e-mail to remind you to ask each of your organization members to stay for all four quarters of the Crimson Tide football games,” Taylor said in the email obtained by The Crimson White. “This is certainly important for all UA students, but organizations with reserved seating have signed an agreement to stay until the conclusion of the game.”

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The Crimson White report states that student organizations sign agreements to stay until the conclusion of games. Organizations violating that agreement can lose seating for later games and can receive point deductions on block seating applications for the following year.

The student section at Bryant-Denny Stadium was noticeably empty during Alabama’s 52-0 win over Arkansas last week.


Crimson Tide coach Nick Saban told AL.com this week that fans should stay at the games for all 60 minutes.

“I’ve talked about players playing for 60 minutes in the game and competing for 60 minutes in the game,” Saban said. “And, in some kind of way, everybody that chooses to go to the game should stay there and support the team for the game.”
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“Maybe if you’re not interested in doing that, you should let someone else go who would really like to go because I have a lot of people who want to go,” Saban said.

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“We have lots of recruits there, we like to see an enthusiastic full stadium,” Saban said. “We have a beautiful stadium and one of the nicest venues in all of college football and I think we all should show our appreciation for it by staying and supporting our team for the whole game.”

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[planomateo]

Meanwhile, the Aggies are trying to sell the remaining 3000 student tickets for Vandy (and they remembered their last 4 loses are at home).

http://www.goodbullhunting.com/2013...t-pull-student-attendance-vanderbilt-texas-am

 

[PhillyGirl]

Why doesn't UA have free for all student seating all the time? I've never heard of Greeks or organizations getting primo seating over other students.

 

[riz]

So awesome.

 

[BAMANEWSBOT]

Alabama suspends tickets for 20 student groups

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[MissingRing]

The national sports press - and especially ESPN - has gotten this block seating issue at Alabama all wrong. On the internet and on sports talk radio one repeatedly encounters teaser headlines/sound bytes that go something like "Saban Rips Alabama fans." First, Nick Saban was not the first to identify the problem of fans abandoning their seats early; he merely articulated a pre-existing (and ongoing) university administration concern that has been the subject of discussion for many months in multiple forums, including the Crimson and White. Second, Saban's comments were not directed at Alabama fans in general but at holders of block seating tickets (i.e., students) specifically. Third, Nick Saban's remarks were careful and measured in tone and did not constitute in any reasonable person's mind "ripping."

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

The national sports press - and especially ESPN - has gotten this block seating issue at Alabama all wrong. On the internet and on sports talk radio one repeatedly encounters teaser headlines/sound bytes that go something like "Saban Rips Alabama fans." First, Nick Saban was not the first to identify the problem of fans abandoning their seats early; he merely articulated a pre-existing (and ongoing) university administration concern that has been the subject of discussion for many months in multiple forums, including the Crimson and White. Second, Saban's comments were not directed at Alabama fans in general but at holders of block seating tickets (i.e., students) specifically. Third, Nick Saban's remarks were careful and measured in tone and did not constitute in any reasonable person's mind "ripping."

Correct, this has been about the students the entire time. Folks like Finebaum know that, but us Saban's comments to stir anyway. Others in the national media might not.