Ticket question

[clenz]

My parents are coming down for family weekend, and the new ticketing scheme screws this all up. They can't get GA tickets anymore, and I'm not sure I want to shell out $26 bucks to get a seat next to them when I get one free.

Anyway long story short, there aren't many seats left, but they were happy with section J and there were decent seats there. However, I was wondering what the "age cut off" for senior tickets was. Does anyone know?

[Panther-Sheik]

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60 and over per the website.

[UNI4Life]

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Per the following, the senior pricing starts at 60 years old.

http://unipanthers.cstv.com/tickets/moreinfo.html

[clenz]

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Thanks, I guess I didn't even go to that website, I went though the family weekend website, which doesn't list the cut off that I saw

[Newsbreaker]

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Call the ticket office...something "different" has to be done about Family weekend. I'd bet there will be no GA, or a much smaller one, and students can pick up individual reserved tickets or something like that.

[ubuntuCAT]

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Call the ticket office...something "different" has to be done about Family weekend. I'd bet there will be no GA, or a much smaller one, and students can pick up individual reserved tickets or something like that.

I had the same problem because I have family coming for homecoming and they told me the only option is for me to buy a ticket with them.

[stinnycat]

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Does anyone know when season tickets will be sent in the mail?

[Panther-Sheik]

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This week...

[JayJ79]

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Does anyone know when season tickets will be sent in the mail?

we got ours in the mail today.

[pantherwatcher]

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I had the same problem because I have family coming for homecoming and they told me the only option is for me to buy a ticket with them.

That is asanine. If they are going to start policies like that, it is time to end "free" student tickets and make students purchase a FULL SEASON TICKET PACKAGE at a reduced price. That way the students at least know their section in advance.

[ubuntuCAT]

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That is asanine. If they are going to start policies like that, it is time to end "free" student tickets and make students purchase a FULL SEASON TICKET PACKAGE at a reduced price. That way the students at least know their section in advance.

How would that help the situation? We know where the student section is already. The difference is that there is no general admission connected to the student section this year. Everything besides the student section is reserved seating.

[Panthers to the Bone]

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It's pretty difficult to cater to everybody for the Family Weekend game. Most students want to sit next to other students, not parents, and the ones that do want to sit next to their parents have a difficult situation, as they probably need to buy a ticket.

How does Iowa or Iowa State do things with Family Weekend?

UNI needs to get the most out of their seats ($$$ wise), and by keeping as many students in the student section, and per-game/season ticket holders in non-GA seating.

[TH1974]

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I had the same problem because I have family coming for homecoming and they told me the only option is for me to buy a ticket with them.

That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

[Newt99]

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This is even more ridiculous than not letting the general public buy GA! Are you seriously telling me they don't have a plan in place for the students for Family Weekend?

If they are requiring the students to redeem their tickets in advance anyway, why not just let them redeem it for a reserved ticket next to the extra seats they purchase for their family members for that game? Or any other game for that matter, if that is where they choose to sit. Many parents come to more games than just family weekend, especially if the parents are also UNI alumni. So many headaches caused by the new ticketing rules. They obviously didn't think about any of these details when they made these decisions. So much for encouraging family to come visit their student on campus.

All I can suggest (if you haven't done it already) is call the ticket office, talk to the ticket manager John Gogola. He was very helpful and did his best to make accomodations for me with my season ticket issues.

[ubuntuCAT]

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I am surprised at the amount of people upset by this. Yeah I wish they still had some GA so I could sit with my family at a couple games but it's not the end of the world. I doubt this is any different then most other college football stadiums. It was nice to be able to walk into the dome 15 mins before kickoff and buy tickets and get good seats. It's great for the program that this is no longer the case.