Time to start selling the student tickets

[molly jabali]

if this thread has done nothing else, it has outed bob lutz as a reader of Shockernet, because they practically led with this topic today, almost point for point....wonder if he posts here?:)

[Kel Varnsen]

Regardless, I think insulting students who don't attend is a great way to get them to come to games.

[mickeylegal]

If there are still student/GA tickets available at game time, a student can walk up and get a ticket. This year the ticket office has reduced the number of days between making the tickets available for pick up by the students and the game. They now have 4 or 5 days before the extras are sold as GA. The next ticket pick up date is Friday for the Intrust game. That means any tickets not picked up by the students as of Thursday of next week will go on sale to the public.

[shocktheheart]

if this thread has done nothing else, it has outed bob lutz as a reader of Shockernet, because they practically led with this topic today, almost point for point....wonder if he posts here?:)

Don't know about that as he was tweeting about this during the game.

[Heinro]

Can we as a fan base do better? Of course. It could be worse. I am in College Station for work. Came to the game. See attached at under 12 time out. Would guess 3000 tops. Maybe 200 students total.

I was referencing this with the Minnesota @ Florida State game. Our "empty arena" for the likes of Maryland Eastern Shore, most other programs dream about.

[sdshox]

#Top25ProgramProblems

[WSU and Reds Fan]

Here is my take (maybe a little sarcastic). We complained about 4 years ago when the returning adults were filling the student seats and leading the younger students.
They got frustrated with holding the university back and stopped sitting in the student section.

Then we complained about the students not being organized, pretty or skinny enough, or loud enough.
They got frustrated with holding the university back and stopped sitting in the student section.

Now we wonder where the students are....

[Shoxxxx]

Regardless, I think insulting students who don't attend is a great way to get them to come to games.

True.

[Shoxxxx]

Like most on here, I have no answer for this.

Marshallville has been doing everything they possibly can. They've been fantastic. I follow their Twitter account, and they tweet multiple times about tickets still being available before a game and encourage everyone to get their tickets. They have themed games like the ugly Christmas sweater one last night. They had a coat drive last night. All this work and not enough students give a crap.

Hey at least someone notices 😎🤓

[SHOCKvalue]

Regardless, I think insulting students who don't attend is a great way to get them to come to games.

If students decide to stay at home from a free event, that is historically the hottest ticket in town, simply because some random person might have indirectly inferred something that hurt their feelings, then I fear for their ability to function in the real and professional worlds.

Besides, the problem isn't with the student die hards that actually show up and make noise, it's with the more flippant ones.

[mjbaker84]

UH-OH

Markis McDuffie @ThatMcDuffieKid 2m2 minutes ago Got a lot of fake fans and a lot of real ones out there...



Markis McDuffie @ThatMcDuffieKid 2m2 minutes ago Our student section weak smh

[Shockers5150]

Wow. Players calling out students... Not sure how this will go. Gonna be awhile before the another game at CKA. It'll be interesting to see if students show up. They'd better

[mjbaker84]

Wow. Players calling out students... Not sure how this will go. Gonna be awhile before the another game at CKA. It'll be interesting to see if students show up. They'd better

i agree. Lets see how the players perform under some pressure with OU and OSU.

[Shock Top]

Sorry, when you're playing Sister's of the Poor, paired with winning by 30+ PPG, it'a going to be a little quite in the Chuck.

Also, the way University culture is these days, there are probably students hiding in safe-spaces, afraid of being offended by anyone.

All (half) joking aside, I've spoken up to the athletic department that they need someone on campus that's job it is to get people pepped up with Shocker Pride and to get butts in seats. They also need to hire someone new to run in game promotions, because they are crowd killers.

I expect IBA to be rocking and to have MVC games pick up the intensity at CKA. No more Xenon School of Hair teams on the schedule. Yes, the bottom half of the Valley is very weak, but every conference game matters.

[mjbaker84]

I do agree the MVC games especially against key teams will be rocking (UNI, Indiana State, Illinois State).