<p>Hello, I have a question in the one thing that unifies all Trojans. USC Football. I'm a female incoming freshman at USC and I just got a email about purchasing a ticket package for all of the USC home football games. However, while I will always cheer on the USC trojan football team I do not know anything about football and have never seen a football game in my life. The main question that I have is whether or not I should purchase these tickets. I know that football is a major part of USC and I will attend at least one home football game. However the ticket package consist of six home game tickets and I am not sure I would attend all six. I also do not know anyone at USC so I am not even sure if I will have someone to go with. While I am sure that I will make a lot of friends at USC I will undoubtedly have female friends that might not be interested in football and not go to the games. Any input about whether or not I should buy the football tickets would be appreciated. FIGHT ON!!!!!!</p>
<p>go to one home game this year. If you find you LOVE it, then you will have 3 more years at USC to buy season tickets.
full disclosure- DS went to 1 USC football game his freshman year, was turned off by all of the drunken behavior and never went again.
There is so much to do, discover, and learn your freshman year, you wont “miss” out if you dont buy season tickets this year.</p>
<p>You will regret not buying tickets, trust me. SO MANY students go to the games (girls, guys, professors, parents, alumns, you name it). Many of whom have never been to a college football game before let alone ever even seen an American football game before, period. Game day is basically one giant tailgate party all over campus prior to kickoff. I had never been into American football before coming to USC and now I am hooked as I understand it is about the experience of game day and going to the game with all your friends and the intensity of being in the coliseum with up to 90,000 other cheering fans.</p>
<p>Also if you get a chance, go to the weekender up to the bay area to see us play Cal or Stanford (it alternates which one comes down to play us and who we go up to play each season). This year we’re playing up there against Stanford and I can’t wait to travel up to Palo Alto for the game. Many students/alumns travel up for that game and we take over half their stadium 
In fact the weekend of the weekender, you’ll see most of your classes are missing a lot of students on Friday/Thursday because people have left to drive or fly up to SF.</p>
<p>any more input??? I’m starting to get worried by menloparkmom statement about her son not wanting to go to football games due to drinking. While I know that people will be drinking and I am okay with that I do not drink myself (only 18) and don’t want to be surrounded by people who are really drunk for the duration of the football game. I have been to parties where people are drinking and having a good time, but are not super drunk so I can handle people drinking but just not acting out because they are drunk. What is the atmsphere like inside the coliseum??</p>
<p>I’d buy the season tickets. If you can’t find ppl to go with I’ll go with you, or you can go with me and my friends…whom I have yet to meet too, LOL. </p>
<p>I’ll be a grad student but I don’t really drink, though I’ve seen my share of drunken idiots, at 49er games for example. You just ignore it but I wouldn’t go to another niner game until they move to a newer stadium. I doubt USC students could be as bad as old drunk niner fans.</p>
<p>Oh and I’ll wear a RED t shirt. ;P</p>
<p>D has her tickets. She loves football, and doesn’t drink. She’s really looking forward to the games. If you need someone to go with pm me, and I’ll put you in touch. Chances are, most of your dorm will be at the game…</p>
<p>if you do not get tickets, especially for this upcoming season i guarantee you will regret it. we are the favorites to the win the national championship this year and if we do manage to win it all you will REALLY REALLY regret it.</p>
<p>also, alcohol is not allowed inside the coliseum so you don’t have to worry about drunk people spilling beer on you and whatnot.</p>
<p>Many people drink on campus during tailgating before the game but many people also do not. That shouldn’t really be a concern and if you decide you don’t like the group of people you go to the first game with you can easily find another group as just about everyone goes to the games. I went with a different group of people to the first few home games until I found a group I’d stick with regularly.</p>
<p>The student section is quite lively but I’ve never felt put out of place by those who are intoxicated, they just tend to be the ones cheering louder than everyone else :)</p>
<p>Buy the tickets this year. If you don’t like the experience then don’t buy them going forward. Game day is a huge experience, in all likelihood your dorm/floor will attend as a group. As the year moves on you’ll find plenty of others to sit with if you don’t like that crowd. </p>
<p>Son2 bought tickets freshman year and is buying again this year. His biggest complaint is that the fans/students are too laid-back.</p>
<p>maybe the fact that when my DS started at USC,[ in 2006] they were a football power house and fans knew and reveled in it. USC then had to suffer the humiliation of NCAA sanctions, so maybe fans are acting differently these days.
my sons experience may reflect the last of the bad old days…</p>
<p>If you buy it any year, buy it this year, we won’t have a team this good for at least a couple years after.</p>
<p>hannahkim, if you are cool enough to end your post with FIGHT ON, you should be very happy going to the games. Have fun!</p>
<p>I’m think that I am going to buy them. Also I been at the campus for the tailgate party and the atmosphere was nice. People were drinking, but they were drinking to have a good time and not to get drunk. Now I’m just worried about not having anyone to go with, do a lot of freshman go to the football game???</p>
<p>grabbit can’t wait to see you in that red shirt</p>
<p>menlomom, I don’t know if it’s the sanctions or just the warm weather, but he describes it as a pro sports crowd, not the more rabid college atmosphere. He grew up in Ann Arbor where they paint the parking meters and fire hydrants Maize & Blue and 110,000 in the stands know how and when to sing Hail to The Victors.</p>
<p>Side note: When I helped move him in last year I was wearing a Maize & Blue t-shirt. A dad asked me why I was wearing Cal colors? Makes you wonder about the quality of education they get up north. ;)</p>
<p>Except in the Rose Bowl - Fight On.</p>
<p>hannahkim12, football games are a huge part of the freshmen experience and it will be a great way for you to bond with others from your dorm floor. Many, if not most, freshmen go to the games. USC does allow the re-sale of tickets to other USC students so even if you don’t attend all the games you can sell or give them away.</p>
<p>“This year we’re playing up there against Stanford and I can’t wait to travel up to Palo Alto for the game. Many students/alumns travel up for that game and we take over half their stadium”</p>
<p>I’ll see you up here at Stanford. Last year Trojans packed AT&T Park for the Cal game.</p>
<p>I just bought the football tickets. Who’s excited for USC football!!</p>
<p>It is going to be hard having to sit in the new alumni section next year. Who’s gonna sneak me into the student section? haha [USC</a> vs. Stanford 2011 - Student Section Celebrations! - YouTube](<a href=“- YouTube”>- YouTube)</p>
<p>I still haven’t gotten an email about how to buy Football tickets. 
Grad students are the red headed step children, lol.</p>
<p>I’m looking at this page for information about how to get tickets:</p>
<p>[USC</a> Ticket Office - Student Season Ticket Information](<a href=“http://www.usc.edu/bus-affairs/ticketoffice/card/]USC”>http://www.usc.edu/bus-affairs/ticketoffice/card/)</p>
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<p>I haven’t gotten anything and Aug 8 is approaching fast. What’s worse is that it says this too:</p>
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<p>I’m not sure if they’re referring to Undergrads or Grad Students here. My graduate student orientation is not until Aug. 20 and for my program, we don’t register for classes until after Aug. 13…which would put me PAST the Aug 8 sale deadline.</p>
<p>My question for you undergrads is, did you already have your orientation and register for classes?</p>