Someone wrote in ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} ariesvirgo, |
"I don't think you could get in line at 6:30 am for any game and still expect to get a ticket..."
Actually, that's not true. For the Penn State exchange, people who arrived at 6:55 am were able to get tickets, though they were on the verge of running out at that point. And for the Stanford exchange, Nick and Chris showed up around 6:30ish, as I recall, and they got tickets -- and there were still a bunch left.
I was frankly surprised that this line got so long, so fast. I assume that the increase from 300 to 750 for fall break games is designed to roughly approximate the increased level of demand for those games, but in this case it seems that the demand was substantially more than 2 1/2 times greater than for "regular" games (or at least for the Penn State and Stanford games).
Frankly, I think it's stupid that the ticket office sets an artificial cap on the number of tickets they'll exchange. I understand the limit of two exchanges per season per student, because without that, some students with no interest in football would buy season tickets for the express purpose of scalping every game. But I don't understand the need to limit the number of exchanges per individual game. It creates a huge unnecessary hassle (the need to get up in the wee hours of the morning to ensure success) and it screws over students with perfectly legitimate reasons for wanting to exchange their tickets. I suppose the rationale is that they don't want the student section to be filled with non-students, but honestly, that wouldn't happen. For one thing, the 2-exchange-per-season limit makes it impossible for, say, half of the student body to exchange their tickets to every game. But more importantly than that, it just wouldn't happen because THIS IS NOTRE DAME and students actually care about going to the games. There is no way that a massive percentage of the student section would ever be filled with non-students, even if the 300-ticket (or 750 in this case) limit were removed. And meanwhile the removal of the limit would remove an enormous hassle and stressor for students with legit reasons to exchange. As for those without legit reasons... the new "name on the ticket" policy has gone a long way to deal with them, and I don't think making life harder for the few who are resourceful enough to find a way around that requirement (and bold enough to risk losing their ticket privileges if they get caught) is sufficient justification for continuing make life hard for people like you and me who just want to get tickets for our friends to go to games when other friends with season tickets are going out of town.
Actually, that's not true. For the Penn State exchange, people who arrived at 6:55 am were able to get tickets, though they were on the verge of running out at that point. And for the Stanford exchange, Nick and Chris showed up around 6:30ish, as I recall, and they got tickets -- and there were still a bunch left.
I was frankly surprised that this line got so long, so fast. I assume that the increase from 300 to 750 for fall break games is designed to roughly approximate the increased level of demand for those games, but in this case it seems that the demand was substantially more than 2 1/2 times greater than for "regular" games (or at least for the Penn State and Stanford games).
Frankly, I think it's stupid that the ticket office sets an artificial cap on the number of tickets they'll exchange. I understand the limit of two exchanges per season per student, because without that, some students with no interest in football would buy season tickets for the express purpose of scalping every game. But I don't understand the need to limit the number of exchanges per individual game. It creates a huge unnecessary hassle (the need to get up in the wee hours of the morning to ensure success) and it screws over students with perfectly legitimate reasons for wanting to exchange their tickets. I suppose the rationale is that they don't want the student section to be filled with non-students, but honestly, that wouldn't happen. For one thing, the 2-exchange-per-season limit makes it impossible for, say, half of the student body to exchange their tickets to every game. But more importantly than that, it just wouldn't happen because THIS IS NOTRE DAME and students actually care about going to the games. There is no way that a massive percentage of the student section would ever be filled with non-students, even if the 300-ticket (or 750 in this case) limit were removed. And meanwhile the removal of the limit would remove an enormous hassle and stressor for students with legit reasons to exchange. As for those without legit reasons... the new "name on the ticket" policy has gone a long way to deal with them, and I don't think making life harder for the few who are resourceful enough to find a way around that requirement (and bold enough to risk losing their ticket privileges if they get caught) is sufficient justification for continuing make life hard for people like you and me who just want to get tickets for our friends to go to games when other friends with season tickets are going out of town.
