GA Football Seating is no more
https://csg.umich.edu/executive-branch/executive-committee/press-releas…
They are getting rid of the general admission seating and going with a hybrid of "attendance driven reserved seating" and class standing. Thoughts?
I think it has to do more with the success of the program on a year over year basis. When Michigan was winning 10 games a year and beating Ohio and State, we didn't have this issue. When we barely scrape by Akron, and have the RR years, people tend to lose interest and hope in the team.
The recent-year students have been the biggest fail in terms of attendance in the last 30 years.
Show up, on time, and maybe somebody will listen to you.
Will be interesting to see how "30 minutes before" works. As was said above, the devil is in the details. This sounds good in theory. However:
- I wonder how fast the lines will go.
- Do you have to be scanned by the 30 minutes before?
- Will there be analysis of where the lines are shorter, to make the 30 minutes?
- Will they have someone mark the "end of the line" when the 30 minute period arrives?
- Will there be a five minute grace period?
- What happens when there are lots of people getting there early (think Ohio, MSU,) and the lines are much longer and slower?
If these details can be worked out satisfactorily, I think this new policy will be awesome. Reward superfans, and give a realistic incentive to get students there, and there on time.
As an aside, it would be interesting to know how many of the mogbloggers fall into the "superfan" category.
Since "Superfan" status maxes at 36 points, and there are 7 games, you could be "tardy" for two games and still be a Superfan. That will probably alleviate some of the issue.
That's just going to have to be a risk you take if you're cutting it close to a half hour.
That said, they do need to make sure the lines work better this year. It got pretty bad at times. A few extra scanners would be awesome.
After reading this article, I still think this is mostly a money decision. The University saw that there was probably going to be a sharp decrease in demand with next year's schedule if they continued to keep the prices the same (which I doubt was ever seriously on the table), so they needed to make a reason for students to pay that high face value price. Is it better than last year's system? Probably, but I still doubt the leading decision to make this change was student satisfaction.
Someone explain why the pic in the article is from 2008?
the last time the student section was full?
$295, ouch! Smart seniors should stick to the secondary market this year. They would easily come out ahead and can't be punished the following year.
March 11th, 2014 at 10:07 PM ^
When I read the title I first thought.....
Georgia Bulldog fans will now have to stand?
Basketball: make student section bigger and surrounding the court.
Simple solution.
10 years ago Football won the Big Ten outright and Basketball was in the NIT
10 years later, Basketball wins the B1G outright and Football is essentially irrelevant.
Just weird.
Wow, screw this. Way to just completely F over seniors this year. I am pretty pissed. This is just reminding me ho much everything sucked this year.
You suck Dave Brandon
I went to school during 07-11. We hired Rich Rod to win championships. That didn't happen. Sometimes you get dealt a poor hand. Build a bridge.
March 11th, 2014 at 10:05 PM ^
As unresponsive as they often seem to Joe Fan, they made a quick change on this one. Nicely done
2) until more of you show up for games, stop bitching
3) get off my lawn.
Seriously, just show up for the damn games.
March 11th, 2014 at 11:14 PM ^
For non-rivalry games.
Or did this just appease a bunch of people who weren't going to games anyway?
Honest question.
March 12th, 2014 at 10:12 AM ^
was instrumental with the details, please address complaints to Michael Proppe.