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Pilgrimdawg

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This week was worse than usual with lots of opposing fans but the faculty problem has been going on for a long time. The situation is a slap in the face to the loyal fans that pay full price and donate so that they can have seats much worse than the ones that the faculty doesn’t appreciate. 17 them. Put them in the corner of the upper decks. If they want good tickets they can pay for them like everyone else.
 

irondog

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"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."

Where was the lie professor?
Why do you have some much hate for MSU faculty and staff? I've attached the new policy letter we received, so that everyone can see the truth. My wife is staff too, for over 20 years. Were not rich. This was a great job perk of significant cash value. We had 6 tickets and brought family and friends to games. Never sold tickets. Now we can only afford 2 tickets.
But, we still get invited to the faculty appreciation football practice day. So that's nice**
 

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paindonthurt

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Why do you have some much hate for MSU faculty and staff? I've attached the new policy letter we received, so that everyone can see the truth. My wife is staff too, for over 20 years. Were not rich. This was a great job perk of significant cash value. We had 6 tickets and brought family and friends to games. Never sold tickets. Now we can only afford 2 tickets.
But, we still get invited to the faculty appreciation football practice day. So that's nice**
I don’t really hate anyone. Don’t change the subject.

WHERE IS THE LIE?

"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."
 

paindonthurt

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Why do you have some much hate for MSU faculty and staff? I've attached the new policy letter we received, so that everyone can see the truth. My wife is staff too, for over 20 years. Were not rich. This was a great job perk of significant cash value. We had 6 tickets and brought family and friends to games. Never sold tickets. Now we can only afford 2 tickets.
But, we still get invited to the faculty appreciation football practice day. So that's nice**
And I’m not rich either but I pay full price for my tickets.

AND I don’t mind the faculty getting discounts but a $H1T ton of faculty sell or did sell tickets to opposing fans. Maybe you should have ridiculed them for doing so?

you can still get really cheap tickets jn the upper deck.
 

anon1768925248

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Why do you have some much hate for MSU faculty and staff? I've attached the new policy letter we received, so that everyone can see the truth. My wife is staff too, for over 20 years. Were not rich. This was a great job perk of significant cash value. We had 6 tickets and brought family and friends to games. Never sold tickets. Now we can only afford 2 tickets.
But, we still get invited to the faculty appreciation football practice day. So that's nice**
Blame your coworkers who have been selling them to opposing fans for the last 20 years. It is a great job perk of significant cash value, which is why people are mad about them selling the damn tickets every week. As many have said, they are currently not the only problem and our fanbase as a whole was embarrassing for letting last week happen, but they are an issue and have been for a very long time. The truth is our stadium is too big for our fanbase needs and we need to chair back it, make the east side upper deck mirror the west, and reduce capacity. That would solve a lot of the issue.
 

irondog

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Blame your coworkers who have been selling them to opposing fans for the last 20 years. It is a great job perk of significant cash value, which is why people are mad about them selling the damn tickets every week. As many have said, they are currently not the only problem and our fanbase as a whole was embarrassing for letting last week happen, but they are an issue and have been for a very long time. The truth is our stadium is too big for our fanbase needs and we need to chair back it, make the east side upper deck mirror the west, and reduce capacity. That would solve a lot of the issue.
Moving faculty and staff won't solve anything. The problem is that MSU fans won't buy tickets....
Obviously the easy fix is to just require an MSU ID for entry with a Faculty/Staff ticket.
Well.... at least I found out how much Six Pack hates MSU faculty and staff!
 
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anon1768925248

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Moving faculty and staff won't solve anything. The problem is that MSU fans won't buy tickets....
Obviously the easy fix is to just require an MSU ID for entry with a Faculty/Staff ticket.
Well.... at least I found out how much Six Pack hates MSU faculty and staff!
I would be fine with leaving the faculty where they are and requiring the school ID to get in the stadium. I don’t hate the faculty. People in general are going to take advantage of a situation financially if you let them. That is why you as a business have to do things that are in your best interest to curtail that even if it hurts
Some feelings. You seem like a great fan that does the right thing. It’s not aimed at you. I also agree that our fans not buying tickets is the bigger issue at this point, but in the future I expect Lebby to be good enough to where it will swing back and we will have more fans willing to buy tickets. Overall, I never expect the current stadium size to be be right and we need to make it smaller IMO.
 

Fishsqeezer

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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!
Look
Moving faculty and staff won't solve anything. The problem is that MSU fans won't buy tickets....
Obviously the easy fix is to just require an MSU ID for entry with a Faculty/Staff ticket.
Well.... at least I found out how much Six Pack hates MSU faculty and staff!
not just faculty sits in section 22,I have been buying season tickets in this section for the last 4 years since moving down from the skydogs for 15 or so (going back to painful Croom years)
Buy 6 season tickets, 4 full price plus dc donations and 2 faulty tickets(about maybe a 100$ less)and bc donation, all with chair back rentals…find yourself another scapegoat
 
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olblue

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we gotta do something about the faculty selling tickets
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olblue

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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!
There is also another solution to this debate. If you have no clue what you are talking about, just STFU. But you have proven for years, that you can’t comprehend that.
 

RocketDawg

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Correct. You can buy tickets to UGA in section 21 from the ticket office right now.
We used to have tickets in either 20 or 21, essentially right on the 50 several rows up from field level. It was called Special Section R at the time, and I don't think there was a special seat fee then. We sat there for several years. They were great seats, but we moved to Club Level when it opened in about 2001. The seats weren't as good as far as seeing the game, but the amenities were light years better.
 
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paindonthurt

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There is also another solution to this debate. If you have no clue what you are talking about, just STFU. But you have proven for years, that you can’t comprehend that.
you have proven for years you say a bunch but don't really say anything.

I can prove it right here.

Be very specific, what exactly do i have no clue about. Bet you can't!!
 

The Peeper

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I would be fine with leaving the faculty where they are and requiring the school ID to get in the stadium.
What happens then to those tickets when the faculty member can't make a game? Does the ticket office buy them back, since nobody can use them w/out an ID?
 

TheDawg-Pound

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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.
Noted but when I went to renew mine, I couldn't choose that as an option. Therefore your regular fans couldn't get premium seats unless they bought later. Therefore you're proving they need to have the section for faculty moved if they can't sell the section and loyal fans can't get in on those seats.
The answer, move the section next to the opposing fans. That helps when they show up but also not a loss for us even they sell. That or move them to the upper deck,
 

OG Goat Holder

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This thread illustrates why our fanbase sucks asss. We have no clue what the real problem is. Just blame people. Faculty has 1.5 sections, and they were the lesser of the offenders on the east side.

50 years from now we will be in the same position. Probably have 25 new logos by then.

But the baseball team will have a few more natties.
 
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paindonthurt

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This thread illustrates why our fanbase sucks asss. We have no clue what the real problem is. Just blame people. Faculty has 1.5 sections, and they were the lesser of the offenders on the east side.
This bolded area is why no one with a brain takes you serious.
 
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floristgump22

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Athletic dept should do away with actual tickets for staff and make them scan their school ID to get in. Give them a designated section in the nosebleeds and make them pay regular price for better seats if they want them.
 

Maroon13

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The athletic department should do away with designating on the seating chart that there is a F&S section.

The athletic department should go back to no required BC donation for them and give them 20% off 4 tickets to anywhere in the bleacher seats of the stadium.
 

irondog

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Athletic dept should do away with actual tickets for staff and make them scan their school ID to get in. Give them a designated section in the nosebleeds and make them pay regular price for better seats if they want the
FYI, the 2026 ticket price for faculty in section 21 will be raised to $610 including BC donation. Non-faculty seats in section 20 will be $700. So, our employee discount is only $90. Do you hate the faculty so much that you want to take that too?
 
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floristgump22

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FYI, the 2026 ticket price for faculty in section 21 will be raised to $610 including BC donation. Non-faculty seats in section 20 will be $700. So, our employee discount is only $90. Do you hate the faculty so much that you want to take that too?
Hate? No. Do I think it’s ridiculous they sell their tickets to opposing fans? Yes.
 

paindonthurt

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FYI, the 2026 ticket price for faculty in section 21 will be raised to $610 including BC donation. Non-faculty seats in section 20 will be $700. So, our employee discount is only $90. Do you hate the faculty so much that you want to take that too?
Instead of being mad at us be mad at the faculty who sell their tickets to opposing fans.

Unless that’s you.
 

MSUDOG24

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FYI, the 2026 ticket price for faculty in section 21 will be raised to $610 including BC donation. Non-faculty seats in section 20 will be $700. So, our employee discount is only $90. Do you hate the faculty so much that you want to take that too?
Hard to tell if you guys or the rig owners are the most hated around here. It's FB season so you're in the lead but BB is around the corner and we still have BKB and the "Hump re-seating" to go through in between. Honestly appreciate the facts/details (loved the "they get them free" comment I saw) but it's just F/S hunting season and will be gone soon. See you at the game when TX rolls into town.
 
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Son_of_34

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we gotta do something about the faculty selling tickets
Facility only takes up one section of the lower bowl it's the rest of you 17ers selling **** and blaming facility see picture for truth of the matter
 

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BulldogBlitz

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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.
Nope. That just raises the price for those tix. It makes them even more enticing to flip to these 1 game visitors.
 
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Maroon13

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I haven't heard anyone say it was "illegal" for Other sec fans to be there.

However with the current seating arrangement, Selmon running prices up (which he can control) and the AD office making the tickets easily accessible to just anyone.... you make it to easy for the other fan bases.

All that needs to be re-thought and they need to come up with more incentives for State fans to buy, more creative seating ideas to cover the east side, etc etc etc.
 

Perd Hapley

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I haven't heard anyone say it was "illegal" for Other sec fans to be there.
Figure of speech, but you yourself are requesting guardrails to be set up by the athletic department and ticket office to make it more difficult for opposing fans to get tickets. See below.

MSU athletics is a business, with multiple products to sell. One of those products is tickets to home games. Its not at all in the best interest of the business (and by extension - MSU as a whole) for them to intentionally make it more difficult for ANYONE to have access to buying unsold product

However with the current seating arrangement, Selmon running prices up (which he can control)

Selmon can control prices to an extent. But, there’s a $20.5 million annual shortfall being carried forward every year now that was on nobody’s balance sheet until recently. He can’t charge any less for the tickets than what is required to keep the department operating in the black. Football ticket sales are the biggest source of revenue for MSU athletics that they have direct control over. It must be maximized.

Its an unenviable position. The university can only sell the tickets once. I don’t blame them for sticking to the price structure until the market requires a lower price.

and the AD office making the tickets easily accessible to just anyone.... you make it to easy for the other fan bases.

That’s the thing, they are only “accessible” to just anyone because they went unsold as season tickets. They still will be sold at the highest price that the school can get for them at some point.

Absolutely nothing listed above made it easier on opposing fanbases to get tickets than 7-17 / 1-15 in SEC play over the 2 year period leading up to a required $20.5 million annual operating expense reduction. Those are the issues.

All that needs to be re-thought and they need to come up with more incentives for State fans to buy, more creative seating ideas to cover the east side, etc etc etc.

I’m never against rethinking anything, even things that are working in a positive direction, if it can be made better. But its important to also understand the big picture. There were some hellacious headwinds for a really long time before that Arizona State game.
 

Maroon13

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Yeah the whole it's a business thing.... I get it. Maybe my approach needs to be more business minded.

As for the new 20m payroll expense, that's their problem. Don't ask me to just throw money into a black hole. Give me a product to purchase or a perk.
 
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