born-n-raisedvol
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They don't because a lot of people wouldn't sit in their assigned seats. You can't get 60 year old men to do it in the rest of the stadium... i assure you there would be serious problems if they did that with the students.
Oh I completely agree. Having a tangible ticket doesn't stop that from happening though. I'm even guilty of it. I got to watch the beat down from Florida from the 5th row instead of the 50th.
Weezy said:There was nothing lost in waiting though. The tickets were random and I can't tell you how many times I got worse tickets than somebody else who got them near last minute. And the beauty of the system was that I could wait and still be guaranteed my ticket. There were some lines previous years that would require either an early morning wake up (I went at 5am to get in line for Florida and FSU in 2006) or a long wait during class times. Last year I would go a couple of days later, wait for a minute, and get my ticket. You could argue it takes a fan to wait or get up early, but after last year, I know I'd rather not. I do enough to show my fandom. And I also like priority, but lately it hasn't been a factor at all. Paying for tickets really weeded out a lot of soft fans. And I guess I should mention none of these systems are bad, after all, some teams, like Texas, it's a crap shoot to get a ticket. We are pretty lucky here.
Here's hoping they don't raise the prices too much.
Being able wait and know you'll have a ticket that could be just as good or better than a ticket you got on the first day was definitely a plus. The only problem was sometimes we had a group of 7 or 8 people wanting to sit together so we liked to get our tickets on one of the first two days just to make sure we were all able to sit together, regardless of where it was.