<p>My d got the student football tickets for fall 2010, and I was wondering how she would go about getting a second ticket for a guest. More importantly, are there some at-home games that are more typically hard-fought than others? I’m sure attending any game would thrill a guest, but this is my d’s first time attending the games, and it would be fun to take a guest to a game with an opposing team almost as good as UA’s team. </p>
<p>Any advice? Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>Every week there will be plenty of students wanting to unload their tickets for one reason or another, as long as the price is right. Then it’s a matter of converting the ticket to a general admission ticket. But there are further complications.</p>
<p>First, you must go to the ticket office in Coleman Coliseum to upgrade your own ticket to a student guest ticket. The price of this will vary depending on the game, and I do not believe you can do this until the week of the game. Then, you should go online at actcard.ua.edu and put your name on the waiting list. If you do not get a ticket by Thursday, I would suggest you look at the many fliers around campus that are advertising students selling tickets. </p>
<p>The waiting list is the best option for someone looking to get a ticket. I attended every game last year for $15 even though I only bought three tickets originally. The list will get you free tickets from students who are unable to attend the games that donated their tickets so that they will not face penalties and have the possibility to win prizes.</p>
<p>What penalties are you referring to? If you do not use your ticket and do not donate it, ie, your plans change at the last minute, what kind of penalty do you receive?</p>
<p>What’s the latest you can donate your ticket, ie, how many days in advance?</p>
<p>Here’s the link regarding ticket donation…</p>
<p>[ALABAMA</a> CRIMSON TIDE - University of Alabama Official Athletic Site - Tickets](<a href=“http://www.rolltide.com/tickets/ticket-donations.html]ALABAMA”>http://www.rolltide.com/tickets/ticket-donations.html)</p>
<p>Also, here’s the link (at the bottom) for the penalty for not using or donating tickets…</p>
<p>[ALABAMA</a> CRIMSON TIDE - University of Alabama Official Athletic Site - Tickets](<a href=“http://www.rolltide.com/tickets/2010-m-footbl-student-tickets.html]ALABAMA”>http://www.rolltide.com/tickets/2010-m-footbl-student-tickets.html)</p>
<p>If you fail to use or donate your ticket to the pool three times within a season, you’ll become ineligible to buy tickets to any post season games and well as the season packages for the next season. Also, if you upgrade a student ticket to a general admission ticket (called a student guest ticket) three times within a season, the same penalty happens. Those are two separate events (failure to use/donate tickets and upgrading) that you get three strikes. I don’t know, however, if you can accrue multiple strikes for one game (i.e. converting three student ticket to three general admission ticket for one game counting as one strike or three).</p>
<p>You can donate your ticket to the pool at anytime from midnight on the Sunday before the game until kickoff. It’s done electronically through the ACT card website, so you can do it from a web-capable cell phone, if necessary.</p>
<p>Thanks to all for the helpful information. Also, I was unaware of the penalty if not using or donating your ticket. I appreciate the heads-up about that policy.</p>
<p>If son is not going to attend a game, I would encourage him to donate his ticket. It’s only five bucks he’s losing, and if I understand correctly, it will save him from penalties.</p>
<p>Please correct me if I’m wrong on that.</p>
<p>When is the latest a student can donate a ticket?</p>
<p>Now, I’m not clear on this converting to guest ticket. Are there penalties if you convert your unused ticket to a guest ticket, or are there penalties if you ask for too many guest tickets? I know, the second scenario doesn’t make sense, but school rules often don’t, so want to make sure I’m clear on penalties.</p>
<p>Hopefully, son will attend every game, but we would also like to attend some, too, not with son, of course, and we don’t want him to be penalized by our purchasing guest tickets.</p>
<p>If I remember the rules correctly, you can donate tickets until the 3rd quarter of the game. Converting a student ticket to a guest ticket does count as a penalty.</p>
<p>If you want to attend a game, I suggest you come up for the weekend and buy a ticket from a person outside the stadium on game day. Especially for the less popular games, there should be a good selection of last-minute tickets. Note that you won’t be sitting with your son should you do this, but it will probably be simpler than having to purchase student tickets and converting them to guest tickets.</p>
<p>The rule is that once you convert a student ticket to a general admission ticket (also called a student guest ticket) three times you will become ineligible to buy tickets for the postseason and the next season. Since your ACT card can only hold one student ticket at a time, you can only convert one student ticket to student guest ticket at a time. However, after you have converted a student ticket to a student guest ticket, you can get another student ticket on your ACT card from another student transferring their ticket to you or by receiving one from the ticket pool. You can repeat the process to get as many general admission tickets as you need, provided you can get student tickets.</p>
<p>You’re correct in that rule is vague as to whether you can only convert a student ticket to a student guest ticket twice before you’re penalized, or whether you can do it as many times as you want for two games before your penalized.</p>
<p>Whoa, nelly, is this football or rocket science!</p>
<p>First off, I’m not going to sit with son, unless he wants me to. I thought there was a special section for students, so I wouldn’t be able to, anyway. His dad might like to, though, so that is a thought.</p>
<p>I’m confused as to how students would be able to sell their tickets outside the stadium.
I thought the tickets were put on your Action Card, and you swiped your card to get in.</p>
<p>Please enlighten me on this.</p>
<p>If you are actually able to get a paper ticket to the game, can you just give your paper ticket to another student to use for the game?
I’m assuming a nonstudent would not be able to enter a game with a paper student ticket.</p>
<p>There are some games we would like to attend with relatives that probably won’t be as popular, like Missississippi State, and there are some games that would be just great to see, like Penn State or Florida, though I’m sure those tickets will be hard to come by.</p>
<p>So far, we’ve got tickets for Parents Weekend, and that’s it. </p>
<p>As we’re a month away from school, didn’t know if we need to put our name on a waiting list for guest tickets.</p>
<p>Student tickets are indeed electronic and on ACT cards, however general admission tickets are still done by “paper.” When you convert a student ticket to a student guest ticket, you get a paper ticket that you can sell to anybody on the street. Technically, you need a student to enter with when you present a student guest ticket, but it shouldn’t be too hard to find a student to claim you as their “guest.”</p>
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<p>Not sure what you mean by this…every home game is sold out.</p>
<p>BTW, if anybody (student or parent) hasn’t been to this site, please go there and bookmark it.</p>
<p>[My</a> Football Account](<a href=“http://actcard.ua.edu/pages/My%20Football%20Tickets.htm]My”>http://actcard.ua.edu/pages/My%20Football%20Tickets.htm)</p>
<p>It has all the complete information regarding the student ticketing process. It’s also the same site where you donate/tranfer/request tickets and, later, apply for tickets for the postseason and the next season.</p>
<p>Showing my ignorance.</p>
<p>I have no familiarity with the ticket process.</p>
<p>We were at Bama Bound on the ticket day. Son and dad went to the computer lab and took care of everything.</p>
<p>We do have tickets to parents weekend. The parents association helped dad take care of this during Bama Bound.</p>
<p>I’ll check out the football ticket site when I have time. Possibly after August 8th? LOL!</p>
<p>But seriously, the important thing is that son got his tickets, he can hopefully go to more games than his package through donations, and we’ll at least get to attend parents weekend.</p>
<p>We were hoping to go to a less popular game, don’t mind paying ticket price, just to experience college football at its best.</p>
<p>Most of the people selling tickets outside the stadium on game day are season ticket holders or ticket scalpers who are selling tickets with preassigned seating.</p>
<p>A lot of students put up fliers around campus advertising tickets they are selling.</p>