Then I see where some stupid students have put their guest tickets up for sale on EBay. This is an atrocity.
The guest tickets are sold so you can take your friends to games. They are for you to take family members to games. The student has to have some dignity about them to do just that. That section isn’t for scalpers. It should be filled with Tigers. And there were students who didn’t get to buy guest tickets because slimeballs like that used the privilege to scalp them.
I’ll give you a little history on guest tickets from my personal experiences with them. When I was a kid my Dad wanted to take me to a Memphis football game. He was a retired Marine attending MSU at the time. So he goes up to the ticket office and says he wants to buy a “date ticket” for his son to attend the Tigers-Mississippi football game. Well, they refused to sell it because his son couldn’t be his “date.” He fought this all the way to the President. And from then on they were called “guest tickets.”
When I was in school. I used guest tickets to take family and friends to games. We weren’t allowed to buy more than one. So if I wanted to take two family members I had to get another student to buy one for me. But never did we ever consider selling those tickets.
Now I see on EBay where students are selling them to the highest bidder. This should result in the student’s loss of the privilege to purchase guest tickets. That’s right it is a privilege not a right to buy these tickets. The reason they are there is for you bring people you know to the games with you.
With that said the policy regarding these tickets needs to be changed. Every guest ticket should be sold to a student ID. That student ID must be presented with the ticket for entry into the game. The first student/guest pairs will be allowed to both sit in the lower bowl. After that both student and guest must sit up top. In the event you or the guest can’t attend the game you must return the ticket. You will be refunded and the ticket can be resold to someone that will use it. Sorry if you don’t like that, but tough.
And finally, any student who has abused this privilege needs to be ashamed of themselves. You are given a gift and you use it for all the wrong reasons. I am ashamed to consider you a member of the same school that I love so much.
in Tiger fans
Responses to “Just when I thought nothing could get me upset”
January 29th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
Get over it. The Tigers are #1 in the nation - scapling just goes with the territory. I am an alumni but get no special treatment when I come to town and want to go see the Tigers. I have to work every last connection I have and still have to scalp tickets outside the FEDEX Forum. How is that fair? Life isn’t fair - deal with it.
January 29th, 2008 at 8:04 pm
There is fair in life and there is right in life. Scalping a ticket you are getting at a discount rate as a benefit is a surefire way to lose that benefit. Greed does not supercede doing the right thing. The students are going to get hurt on this because of these idiots. You can bet the number of guest tickets dropping in rapid fashion after this.
I liken this to NFL players and Super Bowl tickets. The league doesn’t care if you give them away. What they don’t like is when you scalp them for profit. Why? Because it is abusing a benefit.
What will you tell the students when they lose guest privileges? Get over it, life isn’t fair? And mark my words, there should and will be repercussions.
January 29th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
You obviously sound and look like a punk. Quit crying and allow students to capitalize off of tickets as they do please. We should take you and put you in the middle of the student section and whoop you for being a cry baby.
January 29th, 2008 at 11:36 pm
Class comes in different ways. It appears some seem to have lost the C and L in the translation. That’s good. you’re threatening people on the internet using an anonymous name. I’m afraid it looks like another college education wasted. You’re not a die hard so don’t pretent to be.
I want you to read this very slowly because you don’t seem to be getting it. Those tickets are sold to you to use not to sell. If students continue to sell them they will not sell them to you anymore. You will effectively ruin it for every student from here on out.
I’ve been around many years and I’ve NEVER heard of students selling their guest tickets. I guess we’re dealing with different people these days. Has honor really has went out the window?
You might be facing an interesting problem if the school decides that all guest must be accompanied by a student. All those EBay folks will have some explaining to do.
January 30th, 2008 at 12:07 am
Last time I checked tuition is pretty expensive and getting higher. UofM has the highest “athletic fee” built into our tuition costs. So for you to assume that the students are getting these tickets for a discounted price is a little naive. This season is way to special to be wasting time discussing such trivial things as these. Go Tigers!
January 30th, 2008 at 7:06 am
Better check that again, Memphis has one of the lowest student activity fees in the country. Next.
January 30th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
So I did some checking. The “Athletic Fee” for University of Memphis students is $200 annually or $100 per semester. For that they get tickets that anyone else would have to pay $970 to sit where the students sit. If someone wants to sit in the end zone in the lower bowl of FEF that’s a minimum $5000 donation or something in that ball park. And students get that for all of $200 bucks. If a student sits in the lower bowl they pay a whopping 3.4% of the overal cost of tickets/donations or in the upper bowl 18.8%.
When you factor in that you can take a guest to every game for a mere $190 w/o a donation then I think it safe to say that they get their bang for their buck.
Just so you know the students get season tickets for 9 sports, football, basketball (men and women), soccer (men and women), softball, baseball and volleyball.
This is about to doing the right thing. And scalping a ticket you’re given at a discount rate is stealing. The funny thing in all this that the student body as a whole isn’t too happy with this. There will be students who don’t get to attend this game because you bought a ticket, scalped it to a Tennessee fan and will keep another student out of the game. By the way I am an alumnus and a tuition paying parent. So I have a dog in this fight.
January 30th, 2008 at 10:18 pm
Check your facts John. Memphis’ athletic fee is the highest in this state. It is $400/year or about 20% of total fees pay TO GO TO SCHOOL. Not every Tiger fan has a “tuition paying parent” and to those students things can sometimes be a little tight financially. I’m not saying that selling these tickets is right, but please put yourself in other people shoes before you assume that they are no good criminals. Thanks.
January 30th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
Here is an article you can read about Memphis athletic fees and how students are funding approx. 25% of the entire athletic budget….http://media.www.dailyhelmsman.com/media/storage/paper875/news/2007/10/31/OtherStories/Athletic.Fee.Highest.In.Tbr-3068534-page2.shtml
January 31st, 2008 at 12:17 am
My information disputes that number but I’m not going to split hairs. Even if it is $400 that’s a steal considering it is $4600 under the TSF donation required for anyone else to sit in the lower bowl.
The truth is that honor is something I expect from people. Integrity is something I expect from people. Now I may be thinking too logically here but the person who does that will be the guy who finds a way to rip you off in the business world (assuming they get jobs) in 5 years. Where are our standards of conduct? I doubt very seriously any of those folks scalping tickets on EBay are trying to get money for their next meal. Then again, we’ll never know because NONE of them will come forward name and all admitting they did it. I openly invite any of them to step forward without hiding their identity. PLEASE, PLEASE do that for me.
As far as I’m concerned it is time dismiss the honor system the guest tickets are under. Make the student and guest put their names on a list when they buy the ticket. The names and ID’s have to match at the gate or they are denied entrance. That will fix that.
January 31st, 2008 at 12:51 am
We are now the only undefeated team in America and ranked #1, but somehow you are finding something to complain about. Two words: MEMPHIS MISERABLE!
January 31st, 2008 at 7:59 am
Not complaining about the team. I’m thinking we’re halfway to where we’re going. I hate crooks. These people are crooks and have nothing to do with out teams.
January 31st, 2008 at 12:00 pm
dude, how are they crooks? There is not a law that prohibits them from selling them on ebay is there?
I dont think there is anything wrong with that. Hey, as long as people are in the seats, then I dont care how they get to the game, or sell them or whatever….you are a great Tiger fan, but I think you are a little to nitpickey……love your blog though, keep it up.
February 1st, 2008 at 9:17 am
John is right .. and from reading his blog I don’t think there is any better tiger fan .. He has been around the U of M along long time.. I want to see all you true blue students be all happy when some orange t shirt shows up in the blue crew section feb 23rd.. you think that is right too I guess.. I mean if you need money all that bad at least sell them on the street to a tiger fan wearing blue before he goes in the forum.. And I hope you don’t lose your guest ticket privileges but it could happen for sure.
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