No Guest Student Section Tickets To Be Sold For 2019

[Achowalogan]

"No Guest Student Section Tickets To Be Sold For 2019 Penn State Football Season"

I was sad to read this. With 3 younger sibilings I sat in the student section for at least a dozen years...that was back when students sat from the E end zone up the sideline...pretty good seats for seniors and grad students....the guest ticket giving me access to those sections....those were the days.....

 

[PearlSUJam]

How about this?

 

[21Guns.]

How about this?

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Not much they can do about it. The visiting school sets the ticket prices. I don't think the athletic department should be paying for the students tickets if they want to go.

 

[interrobang]

That just means there are no student-priced tickets for OSU (I doubt there ever are for away games). Just a section set aside for students at the regular price

 

[Mick7432]

Penn State is one of the few schools not dealing with the attendance decline that has impacted college football- but they are doing everything in their power to join the trend. If you want to fill the stadium and continue to pack the student section, placing additional restrictions is completely asinine. If it isn’t broken, don’t try to fix it.

 

[Erial_Lion]

Penn State is one of the few schools not dealing with the attendance decline that has impacted college football- but they are doing everything in their power to join the trend. If you want to fill the stadium and continue to pack the student section, placing additional restrictions is completely asinine. If it isn’t broken, don’t try to fix it.

The student section seats are already sold. This is a way to make it easier to sell those other seats to games that would likely go unsold (and thus, of course, bring in more $).

 

[dwiz]

The student section is oversold, they sell more season tickets than there are seats, like an airline. It usually doesn't matter since many people don't go to the games. It might for Michigan this year. Usually they just jam em in there and nobody knows the difference. A couple years ago they oversold so badly that they offered 3 choices if you gave up your big game ticket (I think it was OSU). Alumni tickets at half off if you were graduated, plus some points, half off next year's tickets plus a whiteout shirt and I forget the 3rd option.

 

[NittanyLion15]

The student section seats are already sold. This is a way to make it easier to sell those other seats to games that would likely go unsold (and thus, of course, bring in more $).

I highly doubt all the unsold season tickets (below in blue) are going to sell prior to Labor Day Weekend. Given the majority of these seats are located behind the existing season ticket holders, I see no reason why they should sit on these tickets. If we get within 48 hours of kickoff, and there's still hundreds of seats available, they need to come up with a plan to get these seats in the hands of students who didn't get tickets, or who have friends who may want to go to the games.

Nothing is worse than the gaping silver void that can be seen when the camera pans out, if it was known that unsold tickets would be made available to students for a modest fee, I think we'd start seeing sellouts game after game again...not just 1-2 games a year.

 

[Erial_Lion]

The student section is oversold, they sell more season tickets than there are seats, like an airline. It usually doesn't matter since many people don't go to the games.

It’s not that it’s “oversold”, it’s that it’s sold to capacity and then additional seats are given from the allotment for other purposes. There won’t be an issue with the Michigan game just as there hasn’t been an issue for any other game since the late 90s (with the exception of the computer issue that left the sale open too long a few years ago that you alluded to).

 

[PearlSUJam]

I highly doubt all the unsold season tickets (below in blue) are going to sell prior to Labor Day Weekend. Given the majority of these seats are located behind the existing season ticket holders, I see no reason why they should sit on these tickets. If we get within 48 hours of kickoff, and there's still hundreds of seats available, they need to come up with a plan to get these seats in the hands of students who didn't get tickets, or who have friends who may want to go to the games.

Nothing is worse than the gaping silver void that can be seen when the camera pans out, if it was known that unsold tickets would be made available to students for a modest fee, I think we'd start seeing sellouts game after game again...not just 1-2 games a year.

Sounds good but not sure if I want a kid puking down my kids back.

 

[Sproul]

I highly doubt all the unsold season tickets (below in blue) are going to sell prior to Labor Day Weekend. Given the majority of these seats are located behind the existing season ticket holders, I see no reason why they should sit on these tickets. If we get within 48 hours of kickoff, and there's still hundreds of seats available, they need to come up with a plan to get these seats in the hands of students who didn't get tickets, or who have friends who may want to go to the games.

Nothing is worse than the gaping silver void that can be seen when the camera pans out, if it was known that unsold tickets would be made available to students for a modest fee, I think we'd start seeing sellouts game after game again...not just 1-2 games a year.

I use that map to find seat upgrades at the games.

 

[NittanyLion15]

Sounds good but not sure if I want a kid puking down my kids back.

I'm sure a strict no vomiting on children regulation can be put in place.

 

[Dave-97]

Its irrelevant for the students, they will buy the regular seats and walk over to the student section. It's been happening for years at our tailgate. All our extra tickets go to students, but they never sit with us.

 

[NittanyLion15]

They have been making them available to students (cheap) for years now.

They don’t broadcast it too loudly - because it betrays their nonsense they always like to spew about how they “sold out” their season tickets.

Problem is, the students don’t want to buy those tickets for crap games either..... not even for a few bucks (thus the big swaths up empty seats in the upper rows along the sidelines, and in the North Upper Deck)

Last time they sold many of them to students - as I recall - was a few years back for a homecoming game (which was against a not great opponent, but I don’t recall which one OTTOMH)

How about they release chunks of seats to High School football coaches in the area at a discounted price? Not sure how they could make that work... but my goal here is to get tickets in the hands of people who might use them if not for the $80+fees price tag.

After taking stock of the sheer number of tickets that were once held by season ticket holders that are now up for grabs for every home game except the two best matchups... i'm finally coming around to the idea of dropping the stadium under 90k.

Actually if you look at every college football stadium that seats in excess of 100k, they're all struggling to sell the seats in their most recent expansion(s).

Sure, A&M is going to sell out the Bama & LSU game, Penn State will sell out Ohio State & Michigan... Alabama; Auburn or LSU.... but it's become clear that with exception of Michigan (who i'm convinced flubs their reported attendance) nobody is selling the last 10k they've added to their stadiums. 80-90k is the sweet spot.

 

[NittanyLion15]

Why would you drop capacity? (assuming you mean "drop capacity" within Beaver Stadium.... not build an entirely new stadium, which - of course - would be a whole 'nother situation entirely)

Because I think it's better to sell out every game at 97,000 than it is to have unwanted tickets.

I don't care either way, i just hope the come up with a better design than the current proposal. It looks like a knock off of the renovations done to Kyle Field at A&M, except not as nice.

 

[Sproul]

How about they release chunks of seats to High School football coaches in the area at a discounted price? Not sure how they could make that work... but my goal here is to get tickets in the hands of people who might use them if not for the $80+fees price tag.

After taking stock of the sheer number of tickets that were once held by season ticket holders that are now up for grabs for every home game except the two best matchups... i'm finally coming around to the idea of dropping the stadium under 90k.

Actually if you look at every college football stadium that seats in excess of 100k, they're all struggling to sell the seats in their most recent expansion(s).

Sure, A&M is going to sell out the Bama & LSU game, Penn State will sell out Ohio State & Michigan... Alabama; Auburn or LSU.... but it's become clear that with exception of Michigan (who i'm convinced flubs their reported attendance) nobody is selling the last 10k they've added to their stadiums. 80-90k is the sweet spot.

That’s been happening for 40 years man. Where you been?

 

[NittanyLion15]

That’s been happening for 40 years man. Where you been?

Really? On a consistent basis? I know there's always 1 game a year the designate for that, however I wasn't aware that they made unsold tickets for every game available... If so that's awesome.

And I've been in Beaver Stadium the last 20 years, noticing more and more sections that seem to be half filled year after year

 

[NittanyLion15]

I use that map to find seat upgrades at the games.

That is brilliant

 

[21Guns.]

I highly doubt all the unsold season tickets (below in blue) are going to sell prior to Labor Day Weekend. Given the majority of these seats are located behind the existing season ticket holders, I see no reason why they should sit on these tickets. If we get within 48 hours of kickoff, and there's still hundreds of seats available, they need to come up with a plan to get these seats in the hands of students who didn't get tickets, or who have friends who may want to go to the games.

Nothing is worse than the gaping silver void that can be seen when the camera pans out, if it was known that unsold tickets would be made available to students for a modest fee, I think we'd start seeing sellouts game after game again...not just 1-2 games a year.

The problem is the students don’t want those tickets either. Let be honest on Labor Day weekend many people have something better to do than watch Penn State Idaho students included.

 

[NittanyLion15]

The problem is the students don’t want those tickets either. Let be honest on Labor Day weekend many people have something better to do than watch Penn State Idaho students included.

Labor day has nothing to do with the students attendance at the opening game. I don't remember anyone leaving state college the weekend of Labor Day from when I was at State. Everyone had just gotten there a week earlier.

If Penn State can sell 21,500 seats in 59 minutes, you know there's going to be some students who would be interested in purchasing single game tickets.

Maybe not for Idaho, but certainly for the other games that don't sell out.