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Message: [QUOTE="FRANKIEFAN, post: 2749595, member: 6729"] I can't fathom why we do not allow all students to attend for free and have it built into the cost of admission. We have never tried this and its dumb. Thats 5k more butts in the stands per game easily. They need to at least do this for football. But I guess this won't happen for accounting/bookkeeping reasons. The band getting half of the best seats for basketball also bothered me a lot you had to be crazy early to get the first few rows. Student section was a blast for football and good seats but a complete ripoff for hoops. Tickets weren't included for games that happened during break (felt ripped off didn't get tickets to MSU and another big name the year I had them) which was lame if you were still around when school wasn't happening of course you wanted to go to the game. The student section also limited you to 1 beer at a time. I wasn't exactly trying to give away my constitutional right to purchase 4 Dome foams at a time (for myself:cool::cool:) that was awesome no other venue lets you buy 4 at once. Not everyone has an ID if you sit in the student section your friends can't buy you beers you need a different wrist band. What college kid wants to sit through a 4 hour game without a cold one? I wasn't sitting in the dang student section after freshman year and wouldn't buy student tickets if I went back to SU for a PHD or something. I'd assume 60% of fans in the student section were freshmen from experience and it looks like the ratio is the same these days when they show it on TV. I'm a lifelong fan but a SU student who didn't grow up rooting for SU and doesn't have the season package can't be expected to attend more than 1-2 games per year across both sports if they have to pay 20-30 per game. I truly hated the basketball student section as much as I loved the 4 beers at a time limit but I don't see anything changing it is what it is. Our fan support is great in general the midweek Lville game I attended a couple years ago which Roberson blew was a much better crowd than we'd have had for a similar game a decade earlier. Win 10 games and keep Dino and football will be comparable. If we got really good and made student tickets free my guess is we get around 10000 students per game for the biggies. I don't know anyone who had student section season tickets after they were freshmen. I am not exaggerating. Literally noone bought them after freshman year. [/QUOTE]

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