After our lackluster win against Wofford, the last home game of the season, it’s time to reflect once again on our ticketing system.
For next year, Student Services mentioned going back to a game-by-game lottery and providing students with an incentive to stay the entire game. They’ve also mentioned charging us for tickets and assigning us seats. If these ideas sound familiar, they are. Instead of coming up with new ideas to improve our ticket system, Student Services has repackaged the same old ideas, even when the system could use more creative suggestions.
We agree with them — we’d like to see students stay for the entire game, and we’d like to see them use all 12,000 tickets we’re given.
Football games here at South Carolina are an integral part of student life, and more thought needs to be put into making the experience the best it can be.
But offering the same few ideas students have already roundly rejected won’t help keep students in the stands. It only causes frustration for students and administrators alike, and it keeps us from getting anything done.
As a student body, we think our opinion has been made clear. We don’t want to pay for tickets, and we want to choose where we sit in the student section. And we do like some of their suggestions — the deadline to apply for a season ticket should be moved back, and we need good incentives to make staying for the alma mater worthwhile. We’d like to hear more new, invigorating ideas.
But there’s no need to keep bringing back the same ideas we’ve already rejected.