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khehr said:
There is a huge student run event on campus today. ISU dance marathon at the MU. Lots of kids there and couldn't make the game. Don't be so quick to judge.
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Apparently someone forgot to tell Pollard about it...
 
JP is also trying to remind students why they oversell the student section by 1000 tickets. You can't complain about not getting in for the KU, Iowa or Michigan games if you don't sell out a Saturday afternoon game.
 
DSMCy said:
JP is also trying to remind students why they oversell the student section by 1000 tickets. You can't complain about not getting in for the KU, Iowa or Michigan games if you don't sell out a Saturday afternoon game.
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He's got a point, but the timing is really poor. Save it for a Q&A, or for the next time students gripe about being turned away from a game. Right now is not a good time to be calling students out...
 
As khehr said, today was Dance Marathon, (raising money for cancer). If you tried selling your ticket but didn't, that's fine. If you didn't try, what the ****? I don't sit in the student section so I honestly don't care but Pollard saying something about it is actually a big footnote.
 
I believe Dance Marathon was going on today. I believe that's what I donated money to, anyways. I find it hard to speak negatively against a cause like this.
 
I was telling this to the people I went I the game with... I don't have an once of sympathy for the students who didn't get in to KU/Michigan/Iowa... If they showed up to every conf game then there would be no need to oversell...
 
I didn't even realize that we oversold student tickets? So what if you show up with a ticket, but aren't allowed in, I would assume you then get a refund, correct? You can't be denied something you paid for, can you?

I can't say I like the policy of overselling tickets.
 
ImJustKCClone said:
He's got a point, but the timing is really poor. Save it for a Q&A, or for the next time students gripe about being turned away from a game. Right now is not a good time to be calling students out...
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Agree with this. He could time this stuff better. Plus over twitter it comes across as snarky. Not a good look for a Big 12 AD.
Plus if students are busy raising money for cancer research, kinda hard to knock them for that.
 
clonedude said:
I didn't even realize that we oversold student tickets? So what if you show up with a ticket, but aren't allowed in, I would assume you then get a refund, correct? You can't be denied something you paid for, can you?

I can't say I like the policy of overselling tickets.
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They get refunded. Students are so wishy washy they had to oversell or they would always have seats open. Even in big time games.
 
DSMCy said:
JP is also trying to remind students why they oversell the student section by 1000 tickets. You can't complain about not getting in for the KU, Iowa or Michigan games if you don't sell out a Saturday afternoon game.
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I am with JP 100 percent on this. Correct me if I am wrong but the student section didn't sell out for the KU game this year. I was at the game and it looked like there were seats open up top. I am all for overselling these tickets if students aren't going to show up. Or implement some type of tracking system that gives priority to students who use their tickets.
 
clonedude said:
I didn't even realize that we oversold student tickets? So what if you show up with a ticket, but aren't allowed in, I would assume you then get a refund, correct? You can't be denied something you paid for, can you?

I can't say I like the policy of overselling tickets.
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Yes they get a refund.
The decision was made by student leadership to allow more students the opportunity to buy tickets.

http://view.tmclient.ticketmaster.c...787d60057d74&camefrom=EMCL_191157_9884101&r=0
 
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