Student Section going GA

they get best of both worlds in that they can keep the same routine that they would have otherwise had (their seats are the worst as it is) but now they even have the possibility to have better seats.

so i guess moving forward it all works out...just sucks for rising upperclassmen. but on the flip, flip side, they get to watch a good football team whereas I had to watch a trainwreck, so i feel not sorry at all, almost as not sorry as i feel for this trainwreck of a sentence.

Notre Dame is I think going GA too as I saw a protest petition floating around.

As a freshman who likes getting to games early, I'm really happy they switched to GA. Those who are most committed should get the best seats, plain and simple. 

and kicking people out of their seats, we will have drunk greeks showing up 10 minutes before they open the gates and cutting to the front of the line. Like at all the basketball games this year.

I have always shown up to games early, even if it meant ditching my friends at a pregame and heading down there by myself.  It's cool that this will reward me with better seats, but now I'll end up having to watch entire games by myself instead of just for a little bit until my friends show up after kickoff.

Hopefully this will put a spark in their butts and make them walk down earlier with me.  Or maybe I just need to find some other friends who take the games as importantly as I do.  

As a grumpy 33 year old who is an alum, who also had student season tickets that were never that great, I missed two kickoffs. What has happened in the SS over the last few years is a shameful and disheartening occurrence. I am of the mind that we all will see the SS decrease. the AD owes the students nothing more than a chance to buy discounted tickets, and that might go away as well. So many of this generation doesn't get how special it is to have tickets, and don't care about the team. Just like most things in life, it is the few that ruin it for everyone.



I have been to a lot of games, and the last two years I have heard more alumni and fans look at the empty seats and not just bitch, but express complete and utter outrage much like many of us have here. It is pathetic.



I mean, I drank until 4am, and was up and doing it all over again by 8-9am; and then making a 12pm kickoff. Get over it. Shit, you get a disco nap and can go out again Saturday night if you are so inclined.



What's the big deal when we kickoff?

What happens if you have to take a piss in the middle of the game?  Then what?  Who will enforce what section/row/area you'll be allowed back into?

This sounds like a giant clusterfuck.

Don't give me the "it works at other places" meme.  Michigan Stadium is the largest stadium in the United States of America.

As a graduating senior, Saturday mornings were one of the highlights of my time here. Glad I don't have to tell my kids I spent my Saturday mornings waiting in line for 3 hours.

there's already a FB group and a petition going around..

https://www.facebook.com/NoNewUMichSeatingPolicy

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/599/813/974/re-instate-u-of-m-student-section-reserved-seating/

I have sat near the top of the stadium for years and like that view.

If arriving earlier for the game is a problem for you because it cuts into your drinking time, your issue is not  your view of the game.

and half of the greek community skips all their classes for two weeks to camp out in front of the stadium, and the other half cuts to the front of the line 15 minutes before the gates open... then what?

I don't care what rules there are.  The main thing I want is a packed stadium BEFORE kickoff.  For many years, the student section was full for pregrame.  Pregame should be a part of the game day atmosphere.  And it used to be that way for the students regardless of who the opponent is. 

Today, when the band forms that beloved block M and marches across the field playing the greatest college fight song ever (according to John Phillip Sousa) this is what it looks like...

That's probably one of the saddest and most pathetic things I've ever seen.  This isn't just any stadium.  This is the SHRINE of college football. 

happens at halftime? Open season on seats?

How does one go about purchasing tickets for the first time as new graduate students?

I don't know what all the motivations are behind this, but I'm sure it helps the ticket office not have to deal with all the strum & drang of people wanting to sit together as a group, unhappy with where they are vs. where they should be, etc. I've overheard many a conversation at the ticket office along these lines.

At Wisconsin (Sister and friend's went there) you present your GA ticket at the turnstile, then go to whichever section you'd like to sit in.  For Michigan Stadium this would mean students have the option of going to sections 26-34(ish?).  Then when you enter that section an usher gives out a ticket for your specific seat, progressing from bottom to top.  This way there is still some order in the event of contested seats and students still can have some say in the angle they watch.

Personally, I'm glad this happened.  For all you expecting awesome seats as seniors, there is no guarantee with the old system, especially if you created a group.  Had a group of about 8 friends, all seniors, still got tickets in row 28.  You were completely at the mercy of some ticket algorithm.  This way you at least have some say in your seating location. 

Right now, rows in other sections (ive never been in the student section) seem full WAY before they really are. The only way you know there's a hypothetical place for you there, once it gets that full, is that your ticket says so. Everyone has to make way because your ticket says they do.



How do you decide a row is full when no one has a assignment? It's not like people are going to count off every time a new person tries to crowd in. When do you say "go up a row, this one is full?"