Gregg Marshall letter to WSU students.

[WSUwatcher]

I am friends with the girl that works in the athletic department who sent it out. It's real.

Well, if it's real...

a) Good for Marshall -- if the students aren't going to show up to watch this team, they deserve to be called out, and someone else should get those tickets, because there's plenty of demand.
b) It's pretty disappointing that he'd have to say something like this. I know it happens; for example, Nick Saban felt the need to get after the students for slacking at Alabama football games a while back, too. What's up with that, and what's up with the Shocker students who have the best deal around on the hottest ticket anywhere in the area?
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c) I certainly hope it gets disseminated via social media, through every channel possible.

A big cheer for Marshall, and a big boo to the student slackers who don't use their tickets -- and to the corporate fat cats who fail in their duty, too.

Bottom line: If you have a ticket, go to the damn game. If you can't, then let someone else go instead. You'll find a taker, and there are means for doing so.
If you have a ticket, go to the dam

[mickeylegal]

The same thing was on every student section seat at the Intrust game tonight. It was also on the Shocker Maniacs Facebook page until it was deleted. I know that someone else reposted it on the Shocker Maniacs FB page and it was deleted a second time

[WuDrWu]

-- and to the corporate fat cats who fail in their duty, too.

Here's the problem with that, and I deal with it ALL the time. The "corporate fat cats" don't give an efff. They simply don't. A great many of them don't look up at Gregg (or anyone in athletics) as someone "better". They are going to do what they want, when they want and they don't care what you, Gregg or anyone else think.

Yeah, it sucks. It would be nice if they cared as much as you or I. But many of them don't, and most of those also don't care. They want to use their tickets for whatever they want, including not using them.

I know....but that's the way it is.

[1979Shocker]

When was this said? Pretty cool that he would say this.

He said it during the pregame show. He said he thought every seat would be used because there would be very few corporate seats, if any. He said it's not like in Koch Arena where businesses would buy 16 tickets and only 5 people would be sitting in those seats.

Go to the 46:18 mark or search the audio for corporate.

http://publishing.ramp.com/keyn/a/99878043/wsu-vs-st-louis-12-06-14.htm

[BOBB]

When I lived in Wichita I worked for a company with tickets. Executives and senior salespeople would snap the tickets up and then not go. Meanwhile people a rung or two down the ladder that really wanted to go were never able. It was always a thorn in my side as I would sit in my season tickets three rows from the back and look down at our midcourt seats empty.

[shocks02]

I expect an extra fired up student crowd Tuesday evening when an undefeated BIG EAST team comes to town for ESPN2. The non-students need to bring it too. We've been pretty weak this year.

I hope you are right but finals will probably hold back some from attending.

[shockmonster]

I hope you are right but finals will probably hold back some from attending.

1100 student tickets-sold out/picked up. If they picked up tickets, they should attend. I can repeat it if need be for anyone to comprehend.

[shocks02]

1100 student tickets-sold out/picked up. If they picked up tickets, they should attend. I can repeat it if need be for anyone to comprehend.

Your last sentence confuses me.

[shockmonster]

I'll put it another way. Finals aren't an excuse for students to pick up tickets and then not use them or make sure that the tickets are used. If you aren't going to use them, don't pick them up.

[WuDrWu]

I'll put it another way. Finals aren't an excuse for students to pick up tickets and then not use them or make sure that the tickets are used. If you aren't going to use them, don't pick them up.

Ironically, it's the same mentality of the "corporate fat cats". The students that don't go, they want their tickets, and they want the option to go even at the last second (if something changes) and someone else having the chance to go, or the environment being better, isn't important to them or even on their radar.

[BikeIdiot]

If you don't earn something you don't appreciate it.

Not sure this applies. They are paying far more in tuition than I did back in the 80s.

[BikeIdiot]

I remember bitching when it went from 45 to 55 per hour.

Ha! 55 is what I paid!

[pogo]

I belive it was 15 an hour in the late 60's. I think k-who was 16.50.

[wufan]

I belive it was 15 an hour in the late 60's. I think k-who was 16.50.

My Dad went to Hutch JUCO in the late 60s before matriculating at WSU. He had an overdue bill stuffed in one of his books when we were cleaning out the basement. $2.75 a credit hour.

[Bluzrover]

I think I paid $32 an hour or so in the early 80s. I don't really remember the exact charge. But I do remember standing in line for student tickets a couple of seasons and paying about $125.00 for the privilege to watch AC, Cliff Livingston and a very young Xavier McDaniel.