http://students.ncsu.edu/tickets

Yes I know there are maybe 5 active students up here.

No more group seating

8/3/2011 10:47:11 AM

Sports are a distraction and basically the modern day opiate for the masses

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8/3/2011 10:48:54 AM

paging NCSUStinger

8/3/2011 10:56:14 AM

And people who feel passionately about sports are borderline retarded

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8/3/2011 11:21:51 AM

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"If a student accumulates five no shows in football or eight in men’s basketball that student loses requesting privileges for his or her career."

i get the intent behind this, but it seems fucked up to completely take away student ticket privileges from a student that pays athletic fees as part of tuition.

8/3/2011 11:23:30 AM

AstralAdvent is such a terrible wolf webber

8/3/2011 11:24:35 AM

Tommy wiseau is my go to guy for alll tww user reviews

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8/3/2011 11:27:10 AM

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8/3/2011 11:32:24 AM

I definitely think the changes are improvements. Glad the changes were made...hopefully it'll work out (in my favor, at least)

8/3/2011 11:43:50 AM

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8/3/2011 12:59:12 PM

I'm not too happy about this, I enjoyed bringing my son to bball games but I don't wanna try fighting for seats with a baby in my arms.

Also the no guest tickets during the request period sucks since my wife isn't a student. On-demand was pretty rare last season, so an increase of only 1000 tickets for fb means basically no guest tickets :/ Non-conference bball may still be doable, at least.

I've always been a group leader since I went to every game each year, so the change shouldn't affect how often I get tickets, but my old group definitely won't get as many. Doesn't matter much to me though, I'd rather have only the dedicated people get tickets.

8/3/2011 1:00:33 PM

While I'm not a student any longer...

I hate the general admission policy, early arrival policy, and the no group policy. The GA/early arrival policy is a clear attempt to curtain tailgating by students and to confine them to an area better served to contain them. General admission is just plain horrible on its own -it enables this early arrival policy, and creates battles, sometimes violent, for certain seats. Further, the no group policy will kill a lot of interest - groups provide means for friends and organizations to attend games together and be seated together, without being forced to follow the leader and have everyone at the same place at the same time. Once again, an attempt to curtail tailgating.

I'm just glad I have season tickets and give a middle finger to these asinine policies.

8/3/2011 1:27:15 PM

ncsuftw1 since I refuse to read/post in sports talk this is my thread and you can leave.

People who post in sports talk are retards.

Also I'm glad group seating and assigned seats are gone. I always ended up joining a random facebook group to get tickets. Guest tickets are nice and all but I hate when I show up at a game like the VT game last year and the student section is half full of VT fans.

8/3/2011 2:20:23 PM

what i never liked about GA tickets for football is if you got a good seat in one of the lower sections, and had to take a piss/get food/drink or leave for any reason, you would ALWAYS lose your seat and be forced to the back of the section.

after trying to get my seats back once from some drunken idiots (i was drunk, but of course not an idiot ) i decided that policy was whack

8/3/2011 2:32:34 PM

GA is the best solution. Assigned seating would never work unless they come up with a good system to assign the seats. The bball system was the worst, I went to every game, got there early and ended up sitting in section 305 2 rows from the top for the Duke game, that system was whack.

8/3/2011 2:36:59 PM

I'm glad that basketball is GA. Should've been done a long time ago.

8/3/2011 2:42:36 PM

i didn't like being elbow to elbow with all those suckas

people would squeeze twice the amount possible into one row. surprised it wasn't against fire code, i remember police and campus police ruining my fun a lot due to "fire code" violations for too many people in one place

8/3/2011 2:43:18 PM

Why can't seat assignments be based on the same weighted lottery system?

8/3/2011 2:45:40 PM

I'd rather see ticket selection on weighted lottery, then seat assignment on a sequential lottery, starting with the highest loyalty points

8/3/2011 2:50:21 PM

The problem with assigned seats came from people printing off multiple section 7 and 8 and giving them to friends who had NEZ, SEZ, or upper level. Have your actual ticket scanned at the gate and then show the 7/8 ticket to the event staff.

8/3/2011 3:00:28 PM

I wish they would do bball as GA just like football. No assigned section. First come first serve.

8/3/2011 3:14:29 PM

I was able to get tickets as a sophomore mostly because I joined my RA's group. I understand how it isn't fair for younger students to get tickets through senior loyalty points, but I think RAs should be able to reserve a select number of tickets through University Housing at least one game a season.

8/3/2011 3:14:56 PM

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"what i never liked about GA tickets for football is if you got a good seat in one of the lower sections, and had to take a piss/get food/drink or leave for any reason, you would ALWAYS lose your seat and be forced to the back of the section. "

I never had that problem.

Probably because I have friends.

8/3/2011 3:53:22 PM

i have friends

but it never stopped some fools from getting greedy and moving down a row...then the people behind them followed suit, it was like dominoes the whole way up

8/3/2011 4:51:34 PM

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"i get the intent behind this, but it seems fucked up to completely take away student ticket privileges from a student that pays athletic fees as part of tuition."

agreed.

8/3/2011 5:40:23 PM

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"I wish they would do bball as GA just like football. No assigned section. First come first serve."

I believe the basketball policy has been changed this year to be GA as well actually.

8/3/2011 5:50:48 PM

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"Sports are a distraction and basically the modern day opiate for the masses"

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"And people who feel passionately about sports are borderline retarded"

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8/3/2011 6:35:21 PM

^^ They changed it to GA but you still get assigned a section, which is stupid imo.

8/3/2011 6:47:22 PM

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"Students will have their section determined by the time in which they enter the game and then the seating in those sections will be general admission."

same as football.

8/3/2011 6:55:40 PM

Brain fart.

I swear I read students get assigned a section, but this is good now I will be baseline for every game

No more searching facebook time football season starts to find a group big enough to get tickets.



Now if the bball and fball teams can win some games

8/3/2011 6:58:39 PM

i'm all for it if it means fewer mobs of frat fags

8/3/2011 7:06:19 PM

Yea, but everyone will be asking "did you get a ticket, did YOU get a ticket......"

Which may cause there to be more empty seats because someone will reserve a ticket as they find friends, and unless they are the diehard group, they either go alone or never give the ticket up and leave a seat open. I don't think there was anything wrong with the groups...

btw, where to grad students come in on the point system?

8/3/2011 7:08:50 PM

they get penalized if they leave the seat open

Quote :

"A new no-show policy is an integral part of the updated plan. A no-show is defined as arriving at the end of the first half or not at all. A no show will deduct one loyalty point. Two no shows in football and three in men’s basketball in one season will result in the loss of requesting privileges for that season. If a student accumulates five no shows in football or eight in men’s basketball that student loses requesting privileges for his or her career."

8/3/2011 7:25:26 PM

I still think that NCSU leaves a ton of money on the table by not selling tickets to students.

I think the university could make a lot of people selling student tickets to students who want to guarantee that they get into the game. I think $100 is a good price for the season, along with $100 extra for a guest ticket (or maybe even $150). This would cover the married, people who date someone from other colleges/not in college, if you want to bring a parent, etc.

The problem is where to put them, but AD Yow has shown that she's willing to add temporary seats, so that would work a year or two. If sales are consistent then add additional seats. This same system is used at Penn State, Florida, and a number of other colleges.

Keep the lottery the same, although I would set up a system where actual university groups (fraternities/sororities, etc.) could get group tickets. The university would need to define the criteria for what type of groups qualified. It would need to include year-round checks, as well as substantial requirements (250+ hours of community service, etc.) to prevent people from simply registering their previous ticket group with SORC and claiming rights to the new, limited group tickets.

8/3/2011 7:38:18 PM

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"btw, where to grad students come in on the point system?"

I, too, am curious about this. As far as I knew from before it gave you senior status.

8/3/2011 8:28:46 PM

this makes me think of that faggot grad student that ran the show in 03 and let people working the ticket system pocket rolls of student tickets.

8/3/2011 9:32:14 PM

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"Sports are a distraction and basically the modern day opiate for the masses"

Distraction from what? The same thing could be said about any kind of entertainment.

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""And people who feel passionately about sports are borderline retarded""

I think getting intimately involved to the point where you get in heated arguments over "your team" is stupid, but I don't see anything wrong with enjoying sports for the strategy.

8/3/2011 9:39:29 PM

you bitches got trolled, even astral advent isnt that stupid

8/3/2011 9:43:35 PM

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"IF YOU HAVE WENT"

8/3/2011 11:11:08 PM

I wonder if more Minority students will get tickets now. Its amazing how you go to a sporting event and see maybe 10 minority students in attendance when 90% of the team is minority.

8/3/2011 11:16:20 PM

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"this makes me think of that faggot grad student that ran the show in 03 and let people working the ticket system pocket rolls of student tickets."

i benefited from this in the form of seats behind the basket against Duke. my roommate got these tickets from the scandal.

anyways, every time JJ Redick went to shoot a free throw, he got a heavy dose of "JAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYY JJJJJJJJJJJJAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY" in a really high pitched voice. we locked eyes at one point, it was great.

8/3/2011 11:18:13 PM

I was in the 8th grade

8/3/2011 11:25:52 PM