<p>Hi, I have several questions about bowl games</p>
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<li><p>Does the college do anything on campus for all those freshmen who didn’t get tickets for the SEC championship game (like my sad son)? </p></li>
<li><p>When the bowl game is decided, does the school offer ticket/hotel/air packages. If so, how do get on a list for information.</p></li>
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<p>Thanks in advance!</p>
<p>ROLL TIDE!</p>
<p>Lisa</p>
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<li><p>Do you mean like a block party? If so, not that I know of. If you mean a public viewing, it’s unlikely since the game is on CBS.</p></li>
<li><p>Sorta. They’ll tell you where the team is staying and I think offer a hotel/flight package. Check the athletic department website (rolltide.com) for more info.</p></li>
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<p>ooh I bet my freshman son didn’t get a ticket either. 
I wonder if my junior son did?</p>
<p>feeno…won’t there be some kind of group showing in the Ferg? I thought the school sometimes does that.</p>
<p>I think you’re right. I was just thinking they did for the PPV games. Regarding who actually got tickets to the SEC championship game:</p>
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The SGA, in collaboration with UA Athletics and administrative staff, implemented a new format for ticket distribution this year. Referred to as “80/20,” this plan allocates 80 percent of the tickets allotted to students to undergraduate students, 1,117, who have completed 96 or more credit hours. The remaining 20 percent of the allotment went to graduate-level students, 269, who have completed 141 credits or more. <a href=“From%20last%20Friday’s%20CW”>/quote</a></p>
<p>^^^</p>
<p>So, does that mean that seniors and grad students got the tickets? Are they saying that UA only had about 1400 student tickets total? </p>
<p>I wonder if my older son got a ticket? He was on the waiting list or whatever they called it. He has 101 credits. Were they notified by email if they got one?</p>
<p>Oh well, I guess they’ll be watching it in the Ferg.</p>
<p>do students of all levels get tickets to most of the rest of the football games?</p>
<p>seems one school we went to, the freshman got to go to only half of the football games (auburn maybe)</p>
<p>^^^Mike, that was Alabama… Freshman get tickets to 1/2 the games…</p>
<p>True…freshmen get 1/2 packages to home games.</p>
<p>However, students who aren’t going to use their tickets can place them in some kind of pool where other students (who don’t have a ticket to that game) can purchase one. My kids have done that to get tickets to games that they don’t have.</p>
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<p>Mom, do you read the Crimson White? I would be surprised, if you didn’t. I’ll go ahead and post the entire article.</p>
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<p>*Both UA and UF were allocated 15,900 tickets each. Florida’s allotted amount of tickets to students is roughly 10 percent, while the University allotted over 12 percent, the highest percentage of any SEC school.</p>
<p>“The SEC Conference office plans on each school using 1,500 for students (10 percent),” said Doug Walker, director of media relations for UA athletics. “We’ve provided 12 percent.”*</p>
<p>Why is each side only being given about 16,000 tickets? Isn’t this game at the Georgia Dome? Georgia Dome can seat 71,250 in permanent seating. So, why would Alabama and Florida only be given 32,000 seats total (that’s about half of the stadium’s capacity). Who gets the other half??? </p>
<p>Does the SEC dole out the rest of the seats to other schools in the SEC?</p>
<p>Money makes the world go round.</p>
<p>We were notified last week. You had to check on your actcard football ticket balance and it stated if you were eligible/not eligible to buy SEC tickets. </p>
<p>The conference championship games and bowl games are all about pimping the college athletes so that the corporations can advertise and make more money…blah blah blah.</p>
<p>The corporations have their board of directors, shareholders, top employees, etc to think about. So they get a large chunk of tickets as well. Furthermore, a lot of the tickets go on sale to the general public as well. A ton of politics. I do believe that other SEC schools get a small percentage of the tickets too.</p>
<p>Also, the hours are hours earned at UA. Transfer credits do not count.</p>
<p>Finally, after we beat Florida, tell your sons not to get their hopes up about getting tickets to the BCS Championship b/c the same situation will most likely occur again.</p>
<p>So…I guess the SEC views this as *their *event, so they get to decide how many seats UF and Bama get. </p>
<p>I noticed that the SEC recommends that each Univ only give students 10% of the ticket share. Gee, thanks SEC.</p>
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<p>Yeah, what uaprophet said. Sponsors (who pay the oodles and oodles of money that schools share) get the rest of the seats to dole out however. Some seats are also available for purchase by the general public, but those sell out years in advance.</p>
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<p>Well, frankly, it is. The sponsors don’t give the money they do for nothing. The booster of the two schools also give money so they have a reasonable expectation of being rewarded for their monetary support.</p>
<p>So, the school does not crank up the jumbo-tron at the basketball or football stadium for the students who didn’t get tickets to watch together? Do people tailgate? Anything…?</p>
<p>Now that would be an idea! Don’t know if that’s ever been done/considered. </p>
<p>Have you called the athletic office or activities office? </p>
<p>I’m wondering if they would say that opening the stadium for just a TV viewing would be very expensive (security, etc). Coleman Coliseum would probably be needed for basketball that day, unless their game is away.</p>
<p>I imagine the tailgating goes on in Atlanta. Does anyone know if anything happened on campus last year for the SEC championship?</p>
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<p>I can verify that the older son didn’t get a ticket, and I don’t expect anything different for the championship. :(</p>
<p>A substantial number of my hours are from AP, so those hours didn’t count. </p>
<p>The thing that annoys me is that the system rewards primarily the 5th year seniors (of which there are many, since only 39% of UA students graduate in 4 years). If 96 earned UA hours are needed, the only way a senior who is actually on track would get it is if he/she either averaged 16 hours a semester or spent extra money taking summer classes. And, of course, juniors, sophomores, and freshmen are completely screwed.</p>
<p>I suppose it is the fairest way though, even if I hate it.</p>
<p>I guess they figure that this is the last chance seniors have to see such a game. Oh well, I hope that the school does something on campus for the majority who can’t get tickets. </p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>They may have an event!!</p>
<p>For the Mississippi State game they had a party at the Ferg!
It was implied that it may have been outside as the invite states bring a blanket and or chair!</p>
<p>My D (freshman) from out of state Ohio went to the game in Miss State
with some friends!!</p>
<p>Had a great time with all those cowbells!!</p>
<p>SEC Football!!</p>
<p>^^^</p>
<p>I hope they have something like that for the championship game. :)</p>
<p>My older brother, who went to Auburn, has had to sell his SCG tickets to me the last two years, dont you love it! Anyway, the Dome is much too small for the CG IMO. There really should be a concerted campaign to rotate the SECG between the two largest stadiums in the East and the two largest stadiums in the West. Compensate the other schools whose stadiums are too small to host the annual game. Seems fair to me. Id rather play in Neyland than the Dome. It hurts me to know how few students get to attend this important game. Heck, when I was at Bama, the SEC played the game in Legion Field, which was bigger than the GA Dome, even back in 91! I understand the student’s frustration, but they really should direct their anger toward the SEC office, not the UA of UF administrations.</p>