Truth be told I have not noticed the street parking the lots have been filled pretty well. I remember parking along hat road a few years ago. Can't really tailgate while parallel parked.
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I don't agree for the following reason:
New this year, they added a minimum donation amount to get parking passes in each lot. For Blue it was $500. For Yellow it was $1000, etc. These minimums do what you are suggesting, without doing anything underhanded like holding back on the supply of parking passes. If they don't think the minimums are high enough, they can change them and it's totally clear and above board.
So why then artificially limit supply? Aside from holding back a few passes so that errors in calculating individuals point balances can be corrected, there is no reason to hold passes back.
No, I am convinced that people or corporations have been issued parking passes that are not being used,
Hence my suggestion above about a use it or lose it policy.
I decided not to get a pass this year and am not regretting it at all. With the cost of the prepaid lots now and the uncertainty of what lot you may actually get, I have found that the Greek church (very nice) or the RAC have been sufficient for me. Even Buccleuh park has been fine.
The student section is too fast with the R-U chant...heck if u watch them point they arent even synced up one half of student section is pointing R while the other half isnt almost looks like the atlanta braves tomahak chop
....We've been over this. We know. We're trying to fix it. Thanks.
They are charging more than the market will bear in regards to required donations. I don't think that there are many sold and unused passes. Though I like your policy. I didn't buy parking because I (1) don't have the points for a good lot (2) can't afford the additional 'required donation'. I also don't want to play the lottery for parking. So I buy on the secondary market. I get what I want and know what I am buying. Rutgers is bleeding the stone.
I'm with you. When I got bumped to Purple....and barely scraped into that lot by the skin of my teeth, I was disappointed but thought, "At least RU is making some good money on donations if I got bumped that far."
Was extremely disappointed in the fact that the Scarlet, Yellow, Blue, and Purple are all undersold.
disagree...corporations cannot possess that many passes to make up for the entire area behind Yurcak not being used. People donated money to get the proper amount to qualify in yellow but got bumped to blue..ditto for blue to purple and purple to elsewhere. School got their money and the people who donated but didn't get their choice of lot got screwed. School got their money and allocated less spots in each lot.
Also the facilities management people should be taken to the woodshed for not making sure the portojohn cleaners did their cleanup well in advance of the tailgating..bad job by them
I agree with you on this. It is too fast. The students can not slow them selves down. I say we end the call and response and just have a big R on the jumbo then a big U changed every 4 or 5 seconds.
Yep. I don't think the lack of timing is our fault, either. It's a cultural by-product--we do the R-U thing like we're trying to pull into traffic, where patience dwindles with each passing second.
No we are not what?
We have been over this. Multiple times, in multiple threads.
We know it's a problem. I've been advocating for it to try and be fixed all year.
We are trying to fix it. That's why at the beginning, there's now a cheerleader (Not DJ Yoshi) who starts the RU. The beginning of the Michigan State game was the best it's sounded in years.
The biggest problem at this point, from my observation, has been that the sides of the student section, are not acting like the student section. They are yelling U. That immediately messes up the timing.
But we don't need another thread about it. We already have uniform threads every five seconds.
Whats with people and their contant ****** attitude on this board...
I know its discussed every time i was just pointing out my observation that the student section cant even get synced up how the heck is the whole stadium....
And yall been workin on it for 4 years now
If I knew how to post a video I took of the R-U chant just before the game started I would. It sounded better than I've heard it in awhile but it is still too fast. IMO the chant works better when one side of the stadium says the R and the other says the U. If the students are going to lead, then they should be doing the R and the entire rest of the stadium should be doing the U.
We didn't have a big game in terms of attendance. There were 8000 empty seats in the stadium (2000 unsold tickets plus 6000 no shows). Even if only 75% of the no-shows are season ticket holders, that represents well over 1000 unused parking passes.
And then if you add season tickets sold in the secondary market (you can transfer tickets electronically, but you have to transfer parking passes physically), there are a couple hundred more parking passes that went unused.
To judge if the lots are undersold, you have to wait for a game where the stadium is filled. Unfortunately, that may not happen this season.
This.
The students screw it up.
Cheer team could do this during a TV break, and use the Jumbo TV and ribbon boards to set the cadence
RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!
Pause 2-3 seconds
UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!
Pause 4-5 seconds. . . . .
It really is not hard, but they have made something easy very difficult.
random thoughts:
the parking attendants in the green lot are not consistent in the way they load the lots.... if we are playing a Norfolk state, for example, cars in the front of a double row have room to tailgate in front, and the back of the double row, behind...
this past Saturday I arrived 4 hours before kickoff, so I was about 1/3 of the way into the lot from the street.... the parking guys were
guiding me into a front of a double row spot....but the people in the row in front of me took up the entire space with their stuff.... I mean no room at all.....
I told the guy and he was nice enough to not force me into the spot....we had three cars in our group, so we pulled off to the side, and three
other cars were put in that front row, and my crew pulled behind them and set up our tailgate.
Now, the next set of people behind me were given the same problem....the front row could not tailgate behind us because our tailgate
took up the entire spot.....if they had a tent it would have been impossible....they were able to put up a couple of tables, but that was it...
I heard them complaining amongst themselves, not at us, but the way the cars were being loaded.
this happened last year also for the PU home game.... I would bet it happens again for the Ohio state game, but maybe not the Maryland
I think the parking guys are told to really cram the cars in with worry of not enough space, and thus the parking varies game to game, depending if they think it will be very crowded
they don't figure on the front row of a double row setting up tents, etc
the parking attendants in the green lot are not consistent in the way they load the lots.... if we are playing a Norfolk state, for example, cars in the front of a double row have room to tailgate in front, and the back of the double row, behind...
this past Saturday I arrived 4 hours before kickoff, so I was about 1/3 of the way into the lot from the street.... the parking guys were
guiding me into a front of a double row spot....but the people in the row in front of me took up the entire space with their stuff.... I mean no room at all.....
I told the guy and he was nice enough to not force me into the spot....we had three cars in our group, so we pulled off to the side, and three
other cars were put in that front row, and my crew pulled behind them and set up our tailgate.
Now, the next set of people behind me were given the same problem....the front row could not tailgate behind us because our tailgate
took up the entire spot.....if they had a tent it would have been impossible....they were able to put up a couple of tables, but that was it...
I heard them complaining amongst themselves, not at us, but the way the cars were being loaded.
this happened last year also for the PU home game.... I would bet it happens again for the Ohio state game, but maybe not the Maryland
I think the parking guys are told to really cram the cars in with worry of not enough space, and thus the parking varies game to game, depending if they think it will be very crowded
they don't figure on the front row of a double row setting up tents, etc
The MC who does the R-U chant in the beginning actually instructs how to do it right - he's trying to teach the student section, but before and after it sounds like free meth was given out....and yes, this has been talked about over and over and over again. It's such a simple fix, and when done right it is our best cheer. Mind boggling we can't get the people who need to to have a 2 minute meeting to get this done correctly - either the cheerleaders or the scoreboard - SIMPLE - yet around here it's turned into the Holy Grail.
Such is the attention spans of young people.
USE THE RIBBON BOARDS ON THE SIDELINES!!!!!!!
I guess you never been to beaver stadium. It makes RU selection and quality look like fine dining.
But Rutgers shuttles buses into Johnson park. That's the point. They should consider extending Knightingale into Johnson Park for that reason.
I've been working on it all (1) year. Believe it or not, not everyone shares your concerns, and I was in no position to do anythint last year. To the majority of the student section, it doesn't sound bad. As someone that sits elsewhere, and knows what it SHOULD sound like, I've been working on getting it fixed all year. Welcome to bureaucratic nightmare.
It's not happening, I've already suggested it.
Never going to happen. It would have been good foresight to turn a sideline into the student section instead of the endzone.
I've already suggested it to the marketing people.
You'd think it would be simple.
I'm just getting frustrated because we (Riot Squad) tend to get blamed, cheer team tends to get blamed...email the marketing people. Email Geoff Brown. They're the only ones who can flat out do anything.
Just seeing now....Screw do you want to sell your free MD tickets ? I've been bartering all season to hoard MD tickets for a little league baseball team to attend.
People need to be much more considerate of the lot/tailgate space. Not everyone arrives at the same time and even if you do, sometimes you don't always luck out with how the rows are set up. It's simple, don't hog and think of the next person.
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good advice.... I admit I can get by with a bit less space at times, but the problem occurs when we have a big game and people in each row want to put up
a tent.....tents take up a lot of space that make the empty space between the double rows very wide.....
Even with the tents you can confine it to the allotted spaces with the people who entered with you. The problems surface when people go beyond it (more canopies than cars in the group) and/or extend their cornhole games into others' space, stuff like that. One of the first things I ask when others arrive is if they are okay on space.