First year student football tickets: Group ticket strategies?

Submitted by Naked Bootlegger on

My daughter is an incoming first year UM student.  She just received an email stating that student football tickets are available for purchase until June 15.   

Since she's an out-of-stater without a built-in seating group, she cannot instigate a group purchase.   My main question:  how stringent are student seating assignments enforced?  She will undoubtedly develop a UM friend group after arriving on campus - any strategies to suggest for first-year group seating under this scenario?

When I was a student, seating assingments were merely a suggestion.  Have things changed in the past {NUMBER OF YEARS REDACTED}?     

Any suggestions are appreciated. 

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denardforheisman

June 1st, 2018 at 3:30 PM ^

Current student here - I’ve never sat in my assigned seat and nobody really cares unless you’re in the first 15 or so does where the upperclassmen are. However, ushers for some reason are pretty strict about entering in your assigned section but to get around it just go through your assigned section and walk along the inside of the stadium across the benches away from the ushers to meet your friends. It also helps to show up earlier to games (I always get there 30 minutes early) to move around and find your friends easier. Also, cell service is very dodgy so I would recommend they decide beforehand to meet in a certain section and row, then they can stay there or move wherever they want. Me and my friends’ tickets were in 28 but I’m a huge fan of watching the actual football so we spent the whole season in 25 row 30 on the 25 yard line right next to the band and it was awesome. There were maybe a few times where people with assigned tickets tried to kick us out but everyone is standing and squeezed in anyway so there’s more room than if people were sitting in their seats and we just make room. If she’s not trying to sit in the more desired sections/rows it will probably be no problem. Hope this helps and I hope your daughter has a great first year!

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will

June 1st, 2018 at 3:43 PM ^

Can normal fans easily reuse student tickets?

I plan to take my 5 year old, but I dont expect him to make it through the whole game so I am looking for cheap tickets to WMU or SMU.

I may decide on gameday whether to drive up from Columbus based on the weather. If thats the case I'm curious whether buying student tickets would be an option, or if you need a student ID?

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jblaze

June 1st, 2018 at 4:19 PM ^

Unless things have changed a lot in ~10 years it used to be that incoming kids would swap with each other informally and sit with their fellow incoming friends/ halls (sometimes, RAs would take the whole hall, at least when we didn't suck).

The only issue in the student section used to be if a group (not singles) of freshmen tried to sneak into the "good" (read: senior) seats.

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