Comments on: Problems with tickets?

By: nike urbanism duk

nike urbanism duk — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:32:19 +0000

Photos of the inside of the athlete learning center are now posted online. To find them do a Google blog search using keywords “university of oregon alc”.

By: FlipFlop!!

FlipFlop!! — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:02:24 +0000

Why is the OC all of the sudden supporting socialism for students? Where are your conservative principles now, biatches? If “conservative principles” really means “selfish principles” I guess it still makes sense. Get in line like everyone else. As a matter of fact, get rid of the student section altogether and sell the tickets at the same price the general public pays. The citizens of Eugene shouldn’t have to subsidize ASUO’s contract. Looks like you OC’ers are a bunch of hypocritical marxist whiners! You should be ashamed of even accepting those dirty socialist sports tickets.

By: KB

KB — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:16:36 +0000

The solution is simple. Send the tickets to local FM radio stations, and let the wacky morning DJs distribute them out as prizes!

Or, charge a nominal fee (say, $5 dollars?) for the tickets. This would be in addition to – or as a supplement to – the ASUO subsidy to the AD.

Why a nominal fee? Well, because everyone loves free shit. They will line up for free rocks, as long as they are free. (whoops, wrong “Lottery” system) If you charge a small fee, suddenly people don’t give as big a fuck.

Sell some season ticket packages during Summer, orientation and first weeks of school. Perhaps 75% of alottment?

Then, leave some percentage (e.g. 25%, or a little over 1,000 tix) of student tickets to be picked up every week.

That still doesn’t solve the problem of getting tickets the week of the game, but, again, this is where local morning DJs become vital.

By: Neil

Neil — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:10:40 +0000

My roommate and I were talking about a school that adds a “hurdle” to getting tickets that are in high demand (like football tickets.) I don’t remember what school it is, but I know that it seems like a good idea. First-priority tickets are given to students that have attended other athletic events on campus such as volleyball, soccer, cross country, track events etc. The more events a student has attended, the most likely they are to receive a ticket.

My experience is that some students who get UO football tickets aren’t fans at all – they go to the game just to say they went. With that in mind, students that are real fans and who attend other sporting events are more likely to be loud, crazy, and make Autuzen an even more intimidating environment.

What do we think?

By: Kai Davis

Kai Davis — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:14:24 +0000

Dane, that rocks.

By: Drew Cattermole

Drew Cattermole — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:42:05 +0000

dont spoil the cover

By: CJ Ciaramella

CJ Ciaramella — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:26:20 +0000

Can you please just post this picture as a separate blog post? Beautiful.

By: Dane

Dane — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:59:20 +0000

By: C.T. Behemoth

C.T. Behemoth — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:18:10 +0000

Smarter capitalists would roll the game t-shirts up and put tickets in several thousand of them. Then, students buy the shirt to get the “free” ticket.

Willy Wonka saves the day.

By: Gsim

Gsim — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:12:34 +0000

The real Gsim would never write anything so coherent and thoughtful as posted above did under this same handle.

For the record:

I think student tickets should, at a different random time, be dumped in a pile at the corner of University and 13th street a few days before the game. This would solve all the problems. Low overhead, no one to hire, no servers to maintain, no slow internets, no lines.

The lucky, strong, clever and quick students get as many tickets as they can scoop up and the pathetic, weak, dim and slow students get nothing.

Perfect system.