<p>I was wondering if the Iron Bowl is always played during Thanksgiving holiday.</p>
<p>We’re from OOS, so we don’t know the tradition.</p>
<p>Is the Iron Bowl always on Thanksgiving weekend and does it alternate between the Bama campus and the Auburn campus?</p>
<p>Are students penalized, ie, not able to purchase tickets the following year, or not able to purchase playoff tickets, if they decide to go home for Thanksgiving and donate their ticket back to the ticket pool?</p>
<p>When is the latest kids can make the decision to donate or keep their tickets?</p>
<p>Montegut: I would not donate my ticket. It’s worth a lot of money. Tell your son to consider putting it up for sale. It will pay for his trip home. If he does donate it, he is not penalized.</p>
<p>The Iron Bowl is always the last game of the regular season. It had been played at Legion Field in Birmingham up until auburn cried in the late 80’s and said B’ham was closer to T’town than it was to auburn and it wasn’t fair. So they moved their home game to auburn. Bama kept playing it’s home game at Legion Field up until 1998 I think.</p>
<p>Kids don’t get penalized if they donate a ticket to the ticket bank before 5 pm on Friday. However if someone isn’t going to use their auburn ticket I’d advise they put it up for sale instead of just donating it away. It should easily bring in around $75 or so. Some kids will pay more, but those asking $150 and up for their tickets usually end up eating them. With a lot of out of state kids going home for Thanksgiving it should be a buyers market. </p>
<p>My “son” wasn’t going to come home for Thanksgiving since he didn’t want to miss the auburn game. Since I’m now going to the game as well, he can now fly home the week before and fly back down with me on Thanksgiving night and make the game Friday afternoon. He’ll only miss 2 days of classes this way (Mon & Tue), get to eat Thanksgiving dinner with the family, and still see Alabama stomp a mudhole in auburn.</p>
<p>Since I’m now going to the game as well, he can now fly home the week before and fly back down with me on Thanksgiving night and make the game Friday afternoon. He’ll only miss 2 days of classes this way (Mon & Tue), get to eat Thanksgiving dinner with the family, and still see Alabama stomp a mudhole in auburn.</p>
<p>Before booking any flights, have your son check with his profs to make sure he won’t get penalized in any way if there’s a test during those 2 days or something. The week after might be “dead week” so T-giving week may be the last chance for tests.</p>
<p>(I think we all need to pester Dr. Judy Bonner to get rid of fall break in future years and instead give the entire T-giving week off.)</p>
<p>Thanks M2CK. We have checked his syllabus’ thoroughly and there are no tests scheduled for those two days. He does have an English paper due on that Tuesday but he can turn it in early or even get prior permission from his prof to turn it in via email. I told him to check with his prof this week and make sure he can do that before we buy the tickets home.</p>
<p>Now he just has to decide whether he wants to go to the Georgia St game or not. If not, he can come home late Wed night or early Thursday since classes are canceled that Thursday and he doesn’t have any classes on Fridays. Either way he’ll be home for 6 or 7 days which will be nice since it will be his first time home since school started in August.</p>
<p>I do think The University should ban tests during Thanksgiving week. This would allow out of state kids a chance to go home the weekend before and only have to worry about missing a couple days of class instead of an exam.</p>
<p>First off, I don’t understand how kids can sell a ticket since it’s on their ACT card.<br>
If there is some way to do this, does that cause you to get some sort of penalty, thus leading to an inability to buy a ticket package next year?</p>
<p>But irregardless, here’s my big question.</p>
<p>If the Iron Bowl is in Bama this year, will it definitely be at Auburn next year?</p>
<p>In other words, if your kid decides to go home for Thanksgiving, will they not have a chance to get a ticket as part of their student ticket package for two more years?
I’m assuming the ticket package for upperclassmen is all home games, no away games. Please correct me if I’m wrong about this.</p>
<p>Since it’s always the last game, is it sometimes the weekend before exams, or another weekend besides Thanksgiving?</p>
<p>Is it usually on Saturday, not on Friday, which seems to be throwing a wrench in a lot of people’s plans?</p>
<p>Sorry for all the questions. Just FYI, my son is planning to stay on campus for Thanksgiving and go to the game, but a lot of his friends are on the fence, will decide at the last minute depending on how much school work they have, but they don’t want to be penalized for not using their ticket if they decide to go home at the last minute.</p>
<p>Montegut: If you do not use/donate your ticket three times, that’s when the penalty kicks in.</p>
<p>This is from the ticket page:</p>
<p>“Once a student has 3 “resets” (unused, non-donated, non-transferred), they immediately become ineligible for post-season tickets for that year. They are also ineligible to purchase tickets for the following year.”</p>
<p>As for selling a ticket, here’s what it says:</p>
<p>“You can sell/give your student ticket to another student by going online to “My Football Ticket” and transferring access to that game to the other student’s ACTion Card.”</p>
<p>The 2011 Iron Bowl will be Nov. 26 (a Saturday) at Auburn. The reason it is on Friday this year is because of a TV conflict, or at least that is what was said in an earlier CC thread.</p>
<p>Upperclassmen get a complete home game package, but also have the option of purchasing away game tickets. Each away game varies in price.</p>
<p>The following week after the game is Dead Week, so no tests can be given (although some professors do choose to ignore this). So, the work load for some students may be lighter.</p>
<p>Thanks so much, momreads, for the info! I did not realize upperclassmen could purchase away tickets, too. How much do those generally run? I know it depends on the game, but is there a set price that students can buy them for through the university? Can you give an example, say, for the past Duke game? I’m sure an SEC opponent would be higher.</p>
<p>That’s awesome that Iron Bowl 2011 is already set! Good to know that! Will definitely come into play in a lot of students’ decisions to stay or go.</p>
<p>So, as upperclassmen, students can purchase tickets through the university to the Iron Bowl for next year, even though it’s being played at Auburn? I wonder how much the university charges for that. (Thinking ahead here!)</p>
<p>Why? If it is scheduled academic day, then it’s fair game for all academic activities, including tests. If out-of-state students didn’t want to have to deal with possibility that getting back home for holidays would be a little inconvenient for them, then they should have considered going to school closer to home.</p>
<p>Better to do what m2ck suggested and petition the university to shift the two days of fall break to the week of Thanksgiving.</p>
<p>Well feenotype, MOST students (in state included) minds are on other things the day or two before a Holiday. Kids are anxious to get home and see their friends and family. Scheduling a test the last class before a Holiday is just some profs way of being an ass. No reason at all the test couldn’t be moved up or back a class day.</p>
<p>Inconvenience of getting home for a holiday is about as low on the totem pole for picking a school as possible. But that doesn’t mean a university can’t make it easier for those out of state students to get home to see their families. </p>
<p>Montegut, away game ticket availability is limited and based on credit hours earned at UA. So the chances a non senior will be able to purchase Iron Bowl tickets is slim. The game is usually played on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. CBS asked Bama & auburn to move the game to Friday last year & this year to accommodate tv. Next years game will be on the Saturday after Thanksgiving as will the year after.</p>
<p>The school should just not have any classes during T’giving week and get rid of fall break.</p>
<p>That would take care of this problem. The last test could be the Friday before T’giving and then when kids get back, that could be the beginning of dead week.</p>
<p>The problem with simply banning tests on those 2 days would be that half the school wouldn’t show up that week at all…essentially making those days worthless. So, it’s better just to cancel fall break and give the entire T-giving week off.</p>
<p>one thing that might be a good idea to give people breaks is switching both fall break holidays to monday holidays. then people could more easily go home on weekends other than fall break. most kids don’t seem to have many classes on friday (mine has only one at 11) so an extra holiday on a monday (during away game weekends) would make it more convenient for kids to get away for the weekend (skipping the friday class too, if they want.)</p>
<p>“Then, what’s the point of having class at all?” </p>
<p>So the only reason to have a class is so you can take a test? Classes meet during dead week too but tests are banned. I’m simply for moving “dead week” up to include the 2 days before Thanksgiving break. Of course M2CK’s idea of canceling fall break and taking the entire week off before Thanksgiving is a good idea as well.</p>