What is the deal with student seating at basketball games? Do you actually have to sit in the assigned seat on the ticket, or is it GA?

1/9/2007 5:21:47 PM

if you are asking this question this far into the season then its too late for you

1/9/2007 5:22:29 PM

assigned. though moving around within a section is not hard if you're not a dick about it.

1/9/2007 5:22:29 PM

should be GA...dumb as fuck having assigned

1/9/2007 5:26:46 PM

all i know is Steve holds down the fort in 126, 127

1/9/2007 5:32:18 PM

steve aka the ticket nazi

1/9/2007 5:41:25 PM

im proud to say i once made it past steve

1/9/2007 5:41:58 PM

i hate steve...told a 4 year old kid he couldnt stand on the seat...poor kid couldnt see after that

1/9/2007 5:43:10 PM

i halfway dont blame him

those things can collapse , kid coulda had a final destination death

1/9/2007 5:45:41 PM

is steve the older fat guy that checks tickets in 126 / 127 or is he the taller guy who stops you from going from 126 / 127 over to the sideline seats?

1/9/2007 5:46:13 PM

fat guy

i like being in 110/111 cause the bald guy is normally pretty chill

1/9/2007 5:47:11 PM

bald guy is awesome

if he sees that you're in an awful seat and there are better seats that are empty, he'll come over and tell you to move over to the better seat

[Edited on January 9, 2007 at 5:49 PM. Reason : good guy]

1/9/2007 5:48:35 PM

for the alabama game i had a ticket for sideline, but my friends were in 126, so i went down the steps for the sideline, but walked through the aisle and i guess steve was halting some other people so i was able to get over there

1/9/2007 5:48:48 PM

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"if you are asking this question this far into the season then its too late for you"

1/10/2007 8:47:14 AM

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"is steve the older fat guy that checks tickets in 126 / 127 "

yeah that guy is a straight-up dick. for the earlier games this season, he told us we couldn't stand up on the left and right sides of the student section because there were people in the regular seating who couldn't see the game. i looked back and there was this old asshole who turned into a pointer every time someone stood up, even if just for a second. then his fatass attack dog (aka steve) would head on over and tell people to sit down. dick.

but yeah, i've made it past him a couple times too.

1/10/2007 8:56:48 AM

just walk like you know where you are going and they won't ask you. act important and go to the vip seats if you want.

1/10/2007 9:48:13 AM

that always works

1/10/2007 9:52:28 AM

this has been covered about 1000 times in other threads, but the reason we don't have GA for bball is that sections are not clearly defined, and LTRs overextend into student sections. People pay good money for seats that are occasionally right in the middle of "student sections" and they would raise hell if some student was sitting in their seats.
And "student sections" are not always the same, so the system can't handle moving students around for every game an making it GA while tracking assigned pay seats

1/10/2007 10:08:54 AM

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"i hate steve...told a 4 year old kid he couldnt stand on the seat...poor kid couldnt see after that"

i was there for that.....what a fag

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"just walk like you know where you are going and they won't ask you. act important and go to the vip seats if you want."

you sir, are an idiot.....and a complete nerd (check photo gallery)



[Edited on January 10, 2007 at 10:13 AM. Reason : wow]

1/10/2007 10:09:55 AM

All those other reasons are fine, but "the sections are not clearly defined" is bunk. The sections are very clearly defined if you have a brain and are familiar with numerals.

As for "look like you know where you're going," that principle does indeed work at many a time and place, but not at the time and place where the guy at the bottom of the stairs has been instructed to inspect your ticket.

1/10/2007 10:19:19 AM

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""just walk like you know where you are going and they won't ask you. act important and go to the vip seats if you want.""

nah, this actually works a lot. i haven't sat in my assigned seat once since i go w/ different people and we don't get seats together. i actually got mid-court seats for the michigan game by just acting like i belonged. i understand it would be tough to make it GA, but not if we made it standing room only in some student sections. it would mean more student tix and improve the atmosphere.

1/10/2007 10:20:09 AM

Couldnt you just photoshop the part that says where you sit? Of course you'd have to make sure you put a student section. I'm guessing you would get caught if your ticket said "Bench 12".

1/10/2007 10:45:31 AM

^^agree with the standing room for students...a lot more students can fit and better atmosphere

1/10/2007 11:58:33 AM

^that would be good but first we have to get more students signing up and actually going to the games

1/10/2007 3:06:56 PM

it will never happen

the RBC center staff already bitch about the scanners

1/10/2007 3:14:46 PM

steve stole our tickets at the BC game because we had made copies...but he didn't kick us out!

1/10/2007 3:17:09 PM

i bet this faggot is going to get tickets to the duke game too, without going to any games before the acc ones

1/10/2007 3:49:56 PM

for the record, steve's my friend and he let me and 3 others stay last year 30 minutes after the UNC game and just sit.

he made us leave when they started shutting off lights

1/10/2007 3:51:45 PM

/ticket nazi

1/10/2007 4:05:19 PM

since when do they ever cut the lights off 30 minutes after a game?

they usually stay on for a least a few hours

1/10/2007 6:19:25 PM

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"And "student sections" are not always the same, so the system can't handle moving students around for every game an making it GA while tracking assigned pay seats"

That's bullshit and could be done without much of a problem. All that has to be maintained is a list of the sections and that could be edited and the system could use that for each game. If there are regular seats in the middle of a student section put a reserved tape on them.

[Edited on January 10, 2007 at 6:25 PM. Reason : ]

1/10/2007 6:25:06 PM

Steve isn't the ticket nazi. The bald guy that looks like a Nazi is the ticket nazi. Steve let's you sit where you want. The game in which you are reffering to he had people who wanted to stand in the middle and the ones who wanted to sit on the 2 sides. he always lets us move down and never comes and messes with people. However the one you guys like(the ticket nazi who looks like a nazi) wouldn't let 5 of us stand in a place where there were 4 chairs. Has to be as many people as chairs. BS. steve would let you cram in. instead 2 of them had to move somewhere else. I always pray for 125-127 and not 110-113 because in 125-127 your near the dance team and steve works that side, the other side your near the cheerleaders and band.

1/10/2007 7:02:59 PM

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"The game in which you are reffering to he had people who wanted to stand in the middle and the ones who wanted to sit on the 2 sides."

it wasn't just one game, it was multiple. and it wasn't students who wanted to sit on the two sides, its was old people in the seats behind the 2 sides who wanted us to sit. but if you people say the fat guy is ok, i'll give him a second chance

1/10/2007 7:29:35 PM

no, he isnt cool no matter what LetsTAILGATE says, we have been dealing with the asshole for at least the past 3 years, thus the name, the ticket nazi.

1/10/2007 8:39:59 PM