Hey Students

[Go Budaw]

Don't fine them for leaving, but have drawings for prizes for the students who are there the whole game. All of the students who stay for all 4 quarters of every game get their name entered into a drawing for a semester of tuition, or something.

Its actually a lot more simple than that.

Two step solution:

1) Cut the student section in half. It’s pretty obvious we don’t need all those seats after today. That opens up 4,300 more full priced seats for actual season ticket holders and creates way more revenue while getting rid of the TV eyesore. If students don’t like it, 17 em. Their fault for not showing up. UGA did something similar a few years ago so its not unprecedented. And we’re almost $16 million behind ****** *** Ole Miss in revenue per year according to the latest numbers in the USA Today study, so we could use the extra money.

2) Create a Student ID scanning system as mentioned above. Each event you attend in any sport gets you priority points towards season tickets in all sports, including football. Create other events like the Cowbell Yell in football, Midnight Madness in basketball, and fall scrimmages in baseball where students can also scan in and earn points. Number of total points accumulated while enrolled full time dictates the priority list for football tickets. That way you ensure the students who do get tickets are likely to show up and stay, or get the tickets in the hands of someone who will.

 

[bulldogbaja]

No, our students live all over the world. They stay in Starkville for the school semester. A few times every semester, the stars line up such that they all go home to see mom and dad and wash their laundry on the same weekend. That was this weekend.
They are under zero obligation to go to a college football game.
As a wise man once told me, the students are our customers. Without them there is no university.