hmm...apparently the request period is open for the first exhibition basketball game against Barton College next thursday at 7. Just got an email saying the request period would start shortly but the website says it ends tonight at 12. lol

10/24/2007 8:32:24 PM

Just come by the wolfpack club office. Plenty of purple passes still left.

10/25/2007 1:40:06 AM

apparently we lost the lottery for the bball exhibition game? that's ridiculous. did anyone else not get tickets to that? are they actually all gone, or is the system fucked up?

10/25/2007 10:35:25 AM

My guess is that the system is fucked. You can go to the ticket website, click on reserve ticket and it'll take you to an On-Demand page. It then gives you a "No seats found that match your request." message though after you click continue.

ha and it also tells you "The print on-demand period for this event will end at 11/2/2007 12:00:00 PM." Considering that the game is on the 1st, that's kinda pointless.

[Edited on October 25, 2007 at 10:39 AM. Reason : ]

10/25/2007 10:36:40 AM

that's what it says when they're out of seats isn't it?

10/25/2007 10:42:37 AM

i didn't get one either. i refuse to believe that they are all out of seats.

10/25/2007 10:53:18 AM

anyone have an extra uva student ticket?

10/26/2007 1:50:24 AM

man the ticket system is fuckin up

i just tried to claim a ticket, and it gave me one in section 312. are the early game not GA this year?

lol it also says the game is at noon.

10/26/2007 8:18:11 AM

The time for the basketball games have always been screwed up. And just click on the ticket, it's general admission for the exhibition games. It was the same way last year and I was like wtf until I clicked on the ticket.

10/26/2007 8:23:48 AM

willing to trade a parking pass for a student ticket

anyone? I have the pass, you have an extra, lets get acquainted.

10/26/2007 2:23:06 PM

^pm sent

10/26/2007 6:26:41 PM

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"Just come by the wolfpack club office. Plenty of purple passes still left."

yea that worked


whats that red head girls name that took Annies place today

she was hotttt

10/26/2007 9:24:33 PM

Anyone with an extra student ticket please PM me. We tried to print one this morning that we claimed and it says we dont have it although it says in the attendance history that we got one. wtf

10/27/2007 9:29:51 AM

I thought the two exhibition games were general admission...why does it have a claim period for the Barton game??

10/27/2007 9:51:53 AM

just b/c it's general admission doesn't mean you don't need a ticket. every football game is general admission for students...

10/27/2007 10:02:15 AM

yeah i'm a dumbass i wasn't thinking about that

10/27/2007 10:14:41 AM

i got 1 student ticket for anyone

10/27/2007 11:53:36 AM

pm sent

10/27/2007 11:53:48 AM

Quote :

"Anyone with an extra student ticket please PM me. We tried to print one this morning that we claimed and it says we dont have it although it says in the attendance history that we got one. wtf"

same thing just happened to me. i had a ticket and i just reserved one for barton and now my virginia ticket isn't there. what should i do? who can i call? does anyone have an extra?

10/27/2007 12:16:30 PM

have 1 student ticket (uva) for someone

10/27/2007 1:05:38 PM

I need a ticket. Please pm if me if you still have one available. Thanks!

10/27/2007 2:01:30 PM

i posted this on packpride about student tickets for football games. there were a lot of complaints about empty seats in the NEZ and how bad it looks.

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"i think the problem still lies with the system and not with the students. i definitely believed it is better now than it was when they first went to the online ticket system, but it is still worse than it was before the online system altogether. i know of students that had tickets to the game but were unable to print them because the online system wouldn't let them print their tickets after 5am Saturday morning. I know you can argue "Well they should have printed their ticket sooner", but the fact is there is no reason for the system to prevent printing until after the game is over. Luckily, I had already printed my ticket, but there have been several occasions where I have printed my ticket right before heading out the door on game day. I wonder how many other students had this same problem, and if it was responsible for some of the empty seats. another problem with the online system is how easy it is to get a ticket. that may sound strange, but in fact that is a reason every seat doesn't get filled. back when the voucher system was still in use, students were forced to go wait in line at reynolds one day and pick up ticket vouchers. then, after they found out they got tickets, they had to wait in line AGAIN the next day up at reynolds to get their actual tickets. this was certainly a hassle, but i feel it was a necessary one. you can bet that the students that were willing to invest that much time into getting their ticket were going to be at the game on saturday. now, with the online system all students have to do is click a mouse a few times and voila, they've registered for a ticket. that opens the floodgates for all the students that may go to the games, but it's competing with a long list of other things they'd be more than happy doing instead. meanwhile, the diehard fans among the student body don't always get tickets because of the aforementioned students that get tickets and may not even intend to use them. this results in students that normally would have loved to go the game being forced to stay home while empty seats remain in the student section. i think we should abandon the online system for football games and just make it 100% general admission for students, meaning no tickets are even issued. just require students to show up with their student ID's and let them in until the seats are full and then cut off the lines. this gives every student that truly intends to go to the game a chance to go while also encouraging more students to enter the stadium earlier. i've always been one to come right when gates open to get those section 7/8 seats, but plenty of students wait until kickoff b/c they know they are guaranteed seats and want to drink drink drink until the last possible minute. if we do it this way, there's no guarantee they will have seats if they do that and they'll be more likely to get into that line sooner."

10/28/2007 8:45:39 PM

I've heard quite a few people say that they tried to print their tickets saturday morning, but weren't able to. I always save the webpage as soon as I claim the ticket so I can print it later regardless of the current state of the online system. I went to the ticket website after the game and I could still print my ticket so maybe it was just a problem with certain people or just earlier that day.

Most people are talking about the empty seats in 14/15. When I rewatched the game, 14/15 looked like it was pretty much empty and maybe half full at halftime. And with the old voucher system, members of SG would hoard winning vouchers for their friends and some people would either have a winning voucher and not claim it or get a ticket and not use it. This led to a bunch of empty seats but they weren't grouped together so it didn't look as bad. I'd like to see the actual cutoff point for the number of students they let into 7/8 and the SEZ compared to the actual capacity.

I don't see a full GA system actually working. Unless you used stamps or something similar, you'd still have to deal with overcrowding in 7/8. And how would parking for the fairgrounds work? Just make it available to anyone or give out parking passes to people who may/may not get tickets? And I'm sure the lines would be horrible because you'd need to use certain gates in order to keep track of the number of students entering the stadium.

10/28/2007 9:00:21 PM

yeah i didn't mean scrap the stamping/student entrance process. i would still say keep the stamps as-is, and just do hands since there'd be no tickets (maybe w/ink that doesn't wash off as easy).

regardless, there's no excuse for empty seats in the student section, and i don't think i'm off in my claim that there are students every week that would have gone to the game if they had tickets but they don't have them. i don't think there's ever been a game i wanted to go to that i haven't managed to get a ticket for, but that's just b/c if i don't win the initial lotteries i basically refresh the on-demand constantly until one shows up.

i'm just sick of knowing that probably hundreds of claimed tickets go unused at every game just b/c the people that won them aren't as dedicated to going as others. we need some sort of system in place that will account for this. if the answer isn't scrapping the online system for football altogether, as that is probably a drastic move at this point, perhaps we could institute a new policy that makes it GA to all students starting X minutes before kickoff. This would probably require opening another gate or two to student entry since there's already logjams with students entering the stadium. If we did something like that, it would encourage ticket-holding students to line up a little sooner so they wouldn't lose their seats (which would help with the last-minute logjams anyway). I really think that doing something like this would ensure that we don't get embarrassed with the NEZ and 14/15 sections being barren.

doing something like this would obviously mean that there'd be a few unfortunate fans that had tickets that don't get into the game b/c they show up at kickoff or later, but i think that this is an incredibly minor price to pay if it means the student sections are packed. one poster over there suggested the possibility that administration may just continue to let the faulty system leave empty seats in the student sections so that they can justify converting current student sections to LTR seats and sell them to alumni to make more money. i'm graduating in may, but i still don't want to see this happen. i want as many students at the games as possible b/c they are what makes the home field advantage at carter-finley so great.

are the people in charge open to hearing ideas like these, or is there no chance of doing something about these empty seats? i know there's enough students that actually want to go to the games to fill the seats every week.

the #1 issue to address is getting the students in the seats to begin with. a distant #2 is the issue of fans not returning after the half. i think addressing #1 would make #2 less of an issue anyway.

10/28/2007 10:22:31 PM

I'm sure you can probably email dick christy(dick_christy AT ncsu.edu) with suggestions/concerns. Maybe talk to a writer for the technician about an article.

10/28/2007 10:56:17 PM

bttt for Barton tickets....i need 1 if anyone has an extra.. pm me


tickets on demand now

[Edited on October 29, 2007 at 1:43 PM. Reason : .]

10/29/2007 1:40:01 PM

*bump*

11/1/2007 4:52:00 PM

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"there's no excuse for empty seats in the student section"

my favorite is looking over the ledge in section 15 and seeing tons of sorority girls laying on the pavement the entire first half

11/1/2007 4:55:56 PM

I know it's a long shot but.... does anyone want to be amazing and a request a student ticket on my behalf so a friend can go to the NCSU vs. UNC football game with me? Group leader id: "MJDowner". Just PM me if you can - thanks!!

11/2/2007 8:14:10 AM

is your friend a State fan? or better yet, is your friend a UNC fan?

11/2/2007 8:26:06 AM

fuck those carolina fags.

11/2/2007 9:07:54 AM

my friend is^^, my girlfriend...shes really cute and will even send you a picture of a kissy face or something just as long as you get a ticket.

no leader ID needed, just a ticket

k, thx

11/2/2007 11:04:29 AM

A Carolina fan... I would love for him to watch the tarheels lose at carter-Finley so if anyone can request me a ticket I would love you forever!

11/2/2007 4:30:14 PM

You better not get them a ticket!

It's students only, so anyone that wears Fag Blue is going to get shit on.

11/2/2007 4:39:19 PM

Agreed. I think I'll smack the event staff in the back of the head and tell them to look harder at the ids.

11/2/2007 4:53:08 PM

You guys going to harass everyone in the facebook group "a tarheel faithful" (or whatever it is) that are NCSU students, too?

11/3/2007 1:29:27 AM

if they come here and ask for tickets for their friends/fellow tarholes

11/3/2007 10:34:17 AM

just like every other year, i will talk as much shit as possible to any unc student in our student section

11/3/2007 10:38:33 AM

well hopefully unlike every other year, you will actually be able to continue doing so late in the game.

11/3/2007 10:41:28 AM

yup. If they're wearing fag blue, give 'em hell.

11/3/2007 10:41:38 AM

there was this one chick from carolina at the game in '05, and everyone around her gave her absolute hell

her and the 3 girls from state that she was with all left before halftime CRYING

funniest thing i've seen at a game

11/3/2007 10:47:46 AM

^lmao

11/3/2007 10:54:59 AM

I need a student print off for UNC-P if anybody has an extra...thanks, I can meet anywhere around campus/western etc.

11/3/2007 7:58:26 PM

you can still request them

11/3/2007 8:06:07 PM

uhmm...no. I was about to say the same but I checked and it said no more tickets available. I already got mine though.

11/3/2007 8:07:00 PM

what the hell how are they already gone?

11/3/2007 8:08:52 PM

lol. hell if I know. I'm guessing the ticket system is probably fucked up.

11/3/2007 8:10:12 PM

holy shit, hell hath froze over . . . the ticket website is actually working

11/4/2007 10:26:27 AM

yesssssss we won

11/4/2007 11:26:10 AM

GO TO HELL CAROLINA

11/4/2007 11:32:03 AM