Faculty Tickets
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I could be wrong but I’m pretty sure the faculty gets more than just one section
They also get subsidized tickets in a way.
Please sir, kindly point out in this photo from yesterday which of these thousands of orange shirts are sitting in faculty seats? Is our faculty section that large? Hell no it's not. Faculty pays for their tickets and for the first time ever that I've heard they paid a premium seat fee just like everybody else. Please offer up your solution to this perceived faculty problem, otherwise go pound sand and rocks with Moorhead
Found a faculty member!
if they are paying full price, good. They should be.
but I’d be willing to be 50% of faculty tickets were sold to someone and mostly UT fans.
You should definitely protest outside the ticket office. They sold the tickets afterall. Event staff even let those orange prison unies in the stadium. Far er'body.
Sorry to disappoint you but nope, I'm not a faculty member, did you not see the photo I took and where it was taken from? Last time I looked online at seating charts faculty had maybe 2 or 2.5 sections on lower level East side, that's it. Look at the photo again now and tell us how the faculty seats went to all those orange shirts all the way across all those other lower sections and all those upper level seats. Don't forget to offer up your solution too.
2 sections is right in the heart of your photo
The other sections are where a lot of tickets weren’t sold preseason
it’s real simple
either move faculty tickets to upper deck or charge them the same amount as the ticket cost on west side. Donation and all!
The ticket office knows which seats are sold third-party and monitors it.
What action they will take based on that information, I don’t know. Assuming demand is up next year they will be in a better position to do something about it.
The rumor last year/earlier this year was they were moving faculty/staff to section 1/2, but I don’t know what happened with that.
Seems like they are on it. Good for them.
So put them on the west side in the seats that get shade and bump the section 1/2 folks to the east side so they can pay more to bake in the sun?
What about all the other sections, how are you punishing them for selling theirs, they were 5x more orange than in just faculty seats? You act like these are in person transactions and you can control who you sell to. You act like our own ticket office screens buyers. Do you know how this works or not? Get over yourself
I'm on staff at MSU and I've gotten 8 tickets for 15+ years. If we aren't there, an MSU fan is in my seats. I can say that the Faculty section is only Section 21 and get a 15% discount on 2 tickets only, all other tickets are full price. There is also a $125 donation per ticket to the Bulldog Club this year and $250 per ticket starting next year. Selling tickets is absolutely a problem, but it's NOT only faculty.
You must not have read the part about many of the other sections being where tickets weren’t sold as season tickets so they were available.
Really simple
Faculty tickets should cost the same as 50 yard line tickets on the west side.
If they wanna buy those tickets at normal cost and sell them ok.
I don’t disagree with anything you said, but section 21 was 80% orange.
those are 50 yard line tickets
They should cost the exact same as 50 yard line tickets on the west side
The last thing we need to do is start pissing off season ticket holders.
This isn’t just a faculty problem. I know everyone needs a boogie man when we lose and the entire east side is 50% visitors, but blaming all that on a faculty section is silly.
This isn’t just a faculty problem. I know everyone needs a boogie man when we lose and the entire east side is 50% visitors, but blaming all that on a faculty section is silly.
You aren’t getting the same price as 50 yard line on west side. Its behind visitors bench not ours and you eat the sun the entire time. Our family has tickets on both side of stadium and my older parents can’t eat that sun. Just can’t do it. If the game isn’t at night or they can’t get on the other side they aren’t coming. We don’t sell to visitors though. Ha.
I know it’s sixpack cool to make fun of the sun being a reason. I’m not trying to argue either way. I’m just telling you it’s a real problem for an aging fan base.
Costing the same as the west side is unrealistic
my point is for a long time those seats were sold cheap as hell to faculty and lots of faculty took advantage of that and sold tickets.
It's the fact that the average fan can't buy them and the faculty always sells. If the average fan sells, whatever. It happens everywhere.
So what to do.
Don't let faculty sell their tickets like Alabama. Make them use their ID to get in the game with those tickets like the students use to have to do.
That said you could also move their section and give them the discount back or leave it how it is without a discount but don't let them sell because again it's premium seating.
So what to do.
Don't let faculty sell their tickets like Alabama. Make them use their ID to get in the game with those tickets like the students use to have to do.
That said you could also move their section and give them the discount back or leave it how it is without a discount but don't let them sell because again it's premium seating.
Dude comes on here spouting off and doesn't even know any details about F&S seating or prices.
Ha. State didn't even sell all the inventory in section 21 this year with $125 requirement. If you bump that up to $600 per seat requirement you'll have an empty section. I bet State sells even less next year in 21 when they bump the requirement up $250 per seat.
Hell there are unsold seats in section 4 this year.
Sold “all” their tickets, huh? How can that even be measured. That’s how you know there is a narrative being spun.
Bottom line is, we just didn’t sell enough tickets for a variety of reasons, and those tickets find their way to the secondary market. And UT obviously has a higher demand than we do and was willing to pay more per capita.
This tweet by barstool is why I've come at people on here and Twitter and tried to educate them. When our own fans tweet out misinformation they are "farming". That Lounge dawg tweets out some ridiculous garbage on the regular though.
Agreed. Tennessee has 10x the fans we do. That plays a part. But the UT family in front of me was from Mufreesboro and had a hotel in Tupelo. It's funny our fans can't get room can't this can't that... yet this family of 4 found a way.
You're right, sounds like we need to move their section since only faculty can get prime seats there, they don't buy them all, and at least half sells them.
You're Wrong.
At some point this summer, that section opened to everyone that wanted to buy there. Some that orange in section 21 was bought directly from HailState by UT fans.
This year I feel like faculty is not the issue on the east side but the reduction in season ticket holders. We have sat in section 20 (north side of the 50 yard line on the est side) since 2018. Every year we have had season ticket holders around us. For the TN and ASU games to left and right of us have been nothing but apposing team fans. I have struck up conversations with them both games and they bought their tickets thru the ticket office.
I'm in section 3 and there were some Tennessee fans around us but not many. Maybe 10 in the general area? We also had a Tennessee tailgate next to us (by Barnes and Noble). All in all, they kept to themselves, they cheered but they were not obnoxious. As far as I could tell everyone behaved and enjoyed seeing a classic, highly entertaining college football game (even if we came out on the short end). As one UT fan said leaving the game, "that was an absolute war."
It's not the faculty selling the tickets. The Tennessee tickets were bought on the open market - a lot through the State ticket office. As I said before - a number of faculty didn't renew because they started charging a seat license fee this year to faculty and staff which thus increased the season ticket price.
How many of the aging fan base don't show up because it's too painful to have a cowbell ringing in their ear for four hours? I know of a few.
Man then I really feel sorry for all those people in Baton Rouge, Knoxville, College Station, Ann Arbor etc. who have to listen to 100,000 fans screaming in their ears for entire games. I never knew how rough they had it.
The faculty should be moved to the east side upper deck. They are not the only problem but to deny they are a problem is ridiculously stupid.
90 % of the faculty section was Tennessee fans. All of those were not on the open market.
Here’s a solution to the problem of too many opposing fans in the stadium. Win…and win big. Faculty or otherwise, the only way to fix the problem of reselling or direct selling to opposing fans is to greatly increase demand for tickets from MSU fans. There were 20,000 UT fans there because there were only 40,000 MSU fans that wanted to be there. Period. The end. We don’t have a lot of fans….easily the least of all public schools in the SEC. We’ve been horrible for 2 years leading up to this one, and fair to middling at best for the 8 years prior to that.
We haven’t had a nationally relevant football program in well over a decade, all the while prices for everything have been greatly increasing for the same decade. You can’t just make it illegal for opposing fans to buy tickets. They have the same right to be there as any MSU fans, if they are willing to pay for it.
We haven’t had a nationally relevant football program in well over a decade, all the while prices for everything have been greatly increasing for the same decade. You can’t just make it illegal for opposing fans to buy tickets. They have the same right to be there as any MSU fans, if they are willing to pay for it.
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Not even close to 90%
