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[QUOTE="Cusefan95, post: 1870328, member: 173"]
This is exactly the OPPOSITE of what Syracuse should do.  If demand is greater than supply for tickets, then giving them away for "free" through a lottery system would make sense.  The problem with giving away tickets when demand is far lower than supply is that you already have a product at a low perceived value, and then you further devalue (the perception of) it by giving it away for free.  You are literally telling the student that the tickets are worthless and have no value.  There is an extremely high probability of lots of no-shows when you do this; it is not a strategy to increase student involvement/attendance that will work out.

The part of this discussion which I can't wrap my head around is that people on this board talk about how Syracuse in general and the student body in particular only show up for big events.  You know its a big event when its hard to get tickets, or they are well over face value.  Yet the key to getting students to show up to football games is to give them free tickets?  We're going to communicate to them this is the exact opposite of a big event, you'd pay more to go to a high school football game on Friday nite...and that's going to convince students that the Dome is the place to be on Friday nite.  Its magical thinking.
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