When some of my fellow students and I went to get basketball tickets a few days ago for the basketball games during winter break we were turned away. They were all gone. The lady at the ticket office told us that there were only 300 student tickets released for the games.
I am a senior and have always been able to get tickets for the winter break games until this year. The lack of tickets was caused by the ASUO, according to the ticket office. This is horrible. Only giving out 300 tickets is not acceptable, especially when there are 2,300 tickets available to other games. I know that there is a disclaimer that at least 305 tickets will be given out during
winter break games, but it says “at least.” Where are the rest? Why not give out a few more to students who go to every game and have for
four years?
I think there could be a better method to the way things are
handled. Why not make all the
student tickets available until Wednesday and then after that sell the rest? We pay a fee that allows us to go to the game and now we aren’t allowed to go during winter break because the tickets are sold to the public instead of the students. That makes no sense and needs to be changed. The team needs the students there; they play better when their crowd is loud, and the students make it loud.
We don’t know what you can do this year but if there is any way to make extra tickets available, that needs to be done. Do something, because giving tickets to the public instead of students is not respectable or acceptable.
Isaac Price
Undergraduate