Student tickets

#4
#4
If I'm not mistaken, there is a group that gets first dibs, and if there are any left, you have to basically wait in line, camp out or something to get the leftovers... Im not 100% sure, I just know I've known alot of students who say they haven't been able to get tickets even as juniors.
 
#5
#5
It's actually quite easy to get tickets to all the home games. I'm in grad school now and have been doing this for years. Whenever there is a home game, they start passing out tickets at the ticket office in the University Center on thursday (the one that's 9 days before the game, not right before). This goes on until Tuesday I think, or until tickets are all gone. For most games it's easy and you don't even have to wait in too much of a line. For big games expect to be in a line a couple hours and try to get there on thursday. I want to say the earliest I remember them running out of tickets was Friday afternoon.
 
#6
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jjay2518 said:
It's actually quite easy to get tickets to all the home games. I'm in grad school now and have been doing this for years. Whenever there is a home game, they start passing out tickets at the ticket office in the University Center on thursday (the one that's 9 days before the game, not right before). This goes on until Tuesday I think, or until tickets are all gone. For most games it's easy and you don't even have to wait in too much of a line. For big games expect to be in a line a couple hours and try to get there on thursday. I want to say the earliest I remember them running out of tickets was Friday afternoon.
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There ya go, I'd heard completely wrong, thanks for straightening that out.
 
#7
#7
There ya go, I'd heard completely wrong, thanks for straightening that out.
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You were mostly right. It's just first come first serve for everybody though. They can get pretty hard to get if you wait until after the weekend, though...basically impossible for games like Georgia, Florida, etc. I just got in the habit of always going the first day they started handing them out, so it always seemed easy to me.
 
#8
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It was very easy when I was there. Some people did camp out and wait in long lines, but it wasn't practical, because they gave out random seating tickets. The first one in line could've gotten crappy tickets. It was the luck of the draw. If you were smart, you would wait until there was no line, and go get them then. You just had to make sure you did it before they ran out. They didn't give them out on a seniority level, either. The good thing was, you could send 1 friend to get 4 tickets. That bad thing was, you could send 1 friend to get 4 tickets and he'd lose 1 or 2, mysteriously. These were just for each game, though. I don't remember being able to get season tickets at one time.
 
#9
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The good thing was, you could send 1 friend to get 4 tickets.
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Yeah, that was definitely helpful. Just make sure you have a student ID for everybody you're getting a ticket for.
 
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jjay2518 said:
You were mostly right. It's just first come first serve for everybody though. They can get pretty hard to get if you wait until after the weekend, though...basically impossible for games like Georgia, Florida, etc. I just got in the habit of always going the first day they started handing them out, so it always seemed easy to me.
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I just know at some other schools, there is a student organization that washes the helmets and works on the field an stadium various tasks for the AD like that, that I thought got dibs on tickets. I didnt necessarily think it worked on a class basis, but I thought we may have something similiar.
 
#11
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I just know at some other schools, there is a student organization that washes the helmets and works on the field an stadium various tasks for the AD like that, that I thought got dibs on tickets. I didnt necessarily think it worked on a class basis, but I thought we may have something similiar.
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Actually, you just reminded me of something. We do have a group called Orange Nation. I don't think you do any tasks really, but it costs like $40 a semester to join or something, and you get guaranteed seats between the 30's in the lower 20 or 30 something rows for every home game. It's pretty new. They just started doing this within the past couple years.
 
#12
#12
For away games, just FYI, they have a lottery.

As they said, first come first serve. For Arky State and ULL, you'll be able to get tickets in the UC downstairs almost any day before Friday.

For UGA in 2001, I was able to get a student ticket on Tuesday, for what it's worth.
 
#15
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Since it was mentioned, what do my fellow students/recent grads think of Orange Nation?

I kind of think it's crappy to create a second tier of students like that, based on money. I mean, we all already pay an activities fee. Is the next step to give 1st row tickets to "Even more Orange Nation" for 100 bucks instead of 40?

I suppose they are just training us for becoming alumni. :hmm:
 
#16
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IPorange said:
Since it was mentioned, what do my fellow students/recent grads think of Orange Nation?

I kind of think it's crappy to create a second tier of students like that, based on money. I mean, we all already pay an activities fee. Is the next step to give 1st row tickets to "Even more Orange Nation" for 100 bucks instead of 40?

I suppose they are just training us for becoming alumni. :hmm:
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I'd rather give up a few rows for people that will cheer and be rowdy than to have row after row of disinterested people sitting on their hands that only showed up because of their good seats.

For bball, though, it's a different animal all together, since it is first come - first serve.
 
#17
#17
I've never liked the idea of orange nation. With the activities fee that we pay, I think we should at least have a chance at getting the really good seats for football games. Just cuz you pay more money doesn't mean you'll cheer louder. Also, a lot of people in the orange nation don't always show up for games and some of the best seats get wasted, where as if I waited in line and got really good seats for a game, no matter who it was, I'd sure as heck be there cheering.
 
#18
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jjay2518 said:
I've never liked the idea of orange nation. With the activities fee that we pay, I think we should at least have a chance at getting the really good seats for football games. Just cuz you pay more money doesn't mean you'll cheer louder. Also, a lot of people in the orange nation don't always show up for games and some of the best seats get wasted, where as if I waited in line and got really good seats for a game, no matter who it was, I'd sure as heck be there cheering.
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Afaik, the orange nation block isn't enough seats for the whole group, it's a first-come block.

If you wanna be mad about wasted seats, be mad at the Greeks for leaving after halftime of the homecoming game.
 
#19
#19
I guess this is a good place to ask this. How do student tickets work for the basketball games? Do they work the same way as football tickets, or is it some other way.
 
#20
#20
I guess this is a good place to ask this. How do student tickets work for the basketball games? Do they work the same way as football tickets, or is it some other way.
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No, it's completely different. For basketball games, you line up at the student gate at TBA and just swipe your student ID at the gate. There is no ticket to get. It's just first come first serve at the arena.

If you wanna be mad about wasted seats, be mad at the Greeks for leaving after halftime of the homecoming game.
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Yeah, that's really annoying.
 
#22
#22
I am not sure if you guys have left UT for a long time:p

A student can get any home-game at ticket office located at ground floor of UC, from the Thursday a week before the game, until the Wednesday of the game week. One can pick at most 12 (I believe) tickets for his friends with their UT ID...

Tickets are randomly distributed. It is ok to get your tickets a little bit late. Generally, the tickets for the lower deck go first. But one can ask for the upper deck tickets if he wants.

There is only one exception: the home game vs. Florida. It was insane...... My friends and I got into the line at 6:30 on Thur (the ticket office opens at 8:30). We got our tickets at 10:15...... The line started from the UC -> Volunteer Blvd. -> it goes around the garden in front of UC at Cumberland Ave -> all the way back to library....

Be aware next year......
 
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