Should I Get Student Tickets?
I got accepted into a graduate program at Michigan (woo, really excited about it) that starts this fall and I was wondering peoples opinion on whether I should get student tickets even though I currently don't have any people to go to games with? I am a little over 30 years old so the party life is behind me for the most part, if that affects your opinion.
If I get them and decide to not go to games, is the resale decent enough to cover a decent portion of the costs considering the home slate this year?
Is it possible to get a non-student in with a student ticket?
Hell yes. Get them and go.
You will have over 100,000 friends
Congrats btw!
Is this a trick question?
Congrats!
Of course you get them and go to ALL the games!
Or, OP, you can donate your ND ticket to WD to extend and preserve his ??-straight home game streak.
The home slate this year is one of the best in recent memory, so definitely get season tickets!
Only if you show up to the games on time.
Quit drinking and go to bed!
Congrats on your admission!
Should get student tickets even though I currently don't have any people to go to games with?
Abso-f*cking-lutely. If you don't have anybody to go with for the first game, you assuredly will thereafter.
If I get them and decide to not go to games, is the resale decent enough to cover a decent portion of the costs considering the home slate this year?
Though I'd advise against it, reselling any of MSU, ND, and OSU should recoup your entire season ticket cost (and maybe then some). In my experience, if you plan ahead (i.e. don't try to dump tickets off at the last moment), most games re-sell for face value or better.
Is it possible to get a non-student in with a student ticket?
So long as you have a student ticket for the non-student guest (you can validate the student ticket for a fee, or, have the non-student borrow a Student ID from a lookalike friend), you should be fine. The closer the student tickets are to one another in terms of section/row, the easier it will be to relocate/sit together.
Wish I knew this my freshman year. Sell your OSU ticket ASAP. You’ll get like $150 at the beginning of the season. Then wait until the students realize that it’s Thanksgiving weekend and they don’t want to come back early, buy one the week or even day before for like $40. Profit
Ummmmmmmmm ... yeah.
Go Blue!
From an even older grad student (Michigan '12)
Get season tickets. Your grad program will probably have a student seating group you can jump in.
YES
A Grad student accepted to M should not have to ask that question
Ha! So true. When I got my acceptance for the PhD program (in 2003), my first thought was "when do student tickets go on sale??!!" I did not join a seating Group and ended up with a pretty decent seat. Got to know the young students around me and always had a fun time. Often took family and/or friends to games without any issues.
My first game as a grad student was also my first game ever in the Big House. I showed up about an hour before the start of the game. 2003 was a really good year.
Absolutely get tickets. You can enjoy the game even if you go alone.
This is definitely the year to get them. The resale will be insane for msu osu and nd
Are you married? Can you get 2 tix? If so - you should. You'll have no problem finding ppl to go with..
Congrats on your graduate program! I would say you should definitely buy them. I very recently did grad school at Michigan as well, and there was a big group of people within my program that went to every game and it was a blast.
Of course, much of that depends on your grad program, I imagine some are smaller and maybe less people will want to go to a game, but as others have said, you'll have 110,000 of your closest friends right there in the stadium. Worst comes to it, you could almost certainly sell your tickets well above face value after-market. Go for it!
I forgot to get my tickets.....very dumb I know. I’m on a waitlist now to get them after graduate and incoming students. Anyone have experience with This ?
Get them. If you don't make friends to go to games with, which I'm sure you will, you can make a pretty solid profit off them if you decide to not go to games.
The MTSU, ND, MSU, and OSU games will all command ticket prices well over face value (especially if we remain undefeated). You could likely get the price of the entire package back from selling 2-3 of those games and still have plenty left to see.
In short - yes, definitely buy them.
I'm confused by the question, is this some sort of humble brag?
Yes. Get them and go. You will regret it later if you don’t. The odds of us ever having ND, MSU and OSU all at home in the same year again are pretty slim. Even if you couldn’t make one of those games, you could sell it and probably make all of your money back.
Also pretty sure that as a grad student, you’ll get some good seating. I don’t think they stick you up top with all the freshmen.
The fact that you had to ask, no. You’re embarrassing
Dollars to donuts someone else from your grad program will have tickets, too. Go with your new colleagues.
Congrats!, get them, lot of good home games I’m sure you’d make money reselling them
Do you like losing?
You can get a non student in, but you have to pay a validation fee (~$30 when I was a student 4 years ago, prob similar now too) do it it's fun, the freshmen are too drunk to care who else is in the student section
OSU, MSU, and ND at home. Definitely buy the season tickets. You can sell one of these tickets for the whole cost of the season ticket bundle.
Get em! MSU, ND, OSU all on the home schedule! No brainer!
Yes. You can sit with your fellow grad program students (as long as your seats are in a general area, people don't care about your exact seat). Also, your grad program will have recruiting events for/ at games.
Worse comes to worse, the OSU ticket will cover your costs on resale.
dude, you're a fucking Sledgehammer! You really have no choice but to get student tickets.
A Humblebrag and Circle Jerk thread all in one!
And I call "Bullshit"
OT season is filled with losers
Of course! There were a few late afternoon/evening games when I was a student in the mid 80s I could not attend due to work, but I gave these tickets to family members.
The only reason to get season tickets is if you're going to the big games and don't want to get raped by scalpers.
Otherwise what does it matter since regular price is only 3 bux a game and student tix are only 2 bux and you don't even need to be a student to get student tix, just be student age or younger. Also they let you in for free at halftime!
Plus, the stadium is only ever sold out for the rivals or a big national name, the little 8 and cupcake non conference games only get 80 or 90 thousand fans and you can always get in for less than face value at game time from scalpers at the gate.
Lastly, if you're slim enough, in the S.E. corner by the Events Building the cyclone fence is on a little hill where kids have worn or dug out a rut, then your friend can lift the bottom of the fence up a little and you just slide through the rut & under the fence for free!
Whoa! Sorry! Was having a 1970 flashback! Never mind!