(06-16-2014 12:14 PM)Niner National Wrote:  Our visitors sit in the middle of the student section. They get amazing seats. I think they're on the 50 yard line. It's a very small section though. Unless you're a family member, you're probably not getting visiting tickets in our stadium. We only gave out like 150 visiting tickets last year. NCCU fans were pretty mad about that.

(06-16-2014 12:25 PM)WKUYG Wrote:  

(06-16-2014 12:14 PM)Niner National Wrote:  Our visitors sit in the middle of the student section. They get amazing seats. I think they're on the 50 yard line. It's a very small section though. Unless you're a family member, you're probably not getting visiting tickets in our stadium. We only gave out like 150 visiting tickets last year. NCCU fans were pretty mad about that.

I believe the 150 number will have to change once you start playing in CUSA...

someone help me out here doesn't CUSA have a minimum amount of visitor tickets that must be allowed?

How can you put visitors in the middle of students seems like a huge issue is just waiting to happen...dose Charlotte sell beer?

(06-16-2014 12:50 PM)ThreeifbyLightning Wrote:  I was trying to remember where the mandate comes from. Can't remember if its an NCAA policy left to the conferences to decide or if the conferences apply it independently, but every conference/school as a visiting ticket allocation policy.

Not sure what the minimum is in C-USA.

(06-16-2014 01:38 PM)NTTHOR Wrote:  In the last spot of the stadium that gets shade...bottom corner opposite the wing zone

(06-16-2014 12:54 PM)Niner National Wrote:  

(06-16-2014 12:50 PM)ThreeifbyLightning Wrote:  I was trying to remember where the mandate comes from. Can't remember if its an NCAA policy left to the conferences to decide or if the conferences apply it independently, but every conference/school as a visiting ticket allocation policy.

Not sure what the minimum is in C-USA.

I'm thinking it is like 2,000 seats.

We can meet that, but right now we don't have to since we're not in CUSA, so we'd rather those seats go to the general public and/or students.

Quote:The host institution shall provide the visiting institution with 400 complimentary tickets using its best efforts to provide the best seats available, and shall make 1,600 tickets available for sale by the visiting institution.

(06-16-2014 01:43 PM)DragonLair Wrote:  At UAB Visitors get wherever they like usually 50 yard line or wherever you can find a seat. (Shouldn't be to hard)

(06-16-2014 01:52 PM)Highflying49er Wrote:  

(06-16-2014 12:54 PM)Niner National Wrote:  

(06-16-2014 12:50 PM)ThreeifbyLightning Wrote:  I was trying to remember where the mandate comes from. Can't remember if its an NCAA policy left to the conferences to decide or if the conferences apply it independently, but every conference/school as a visiting ticket allocation policy.

Not sure what the minimum is in C-USA.

I'm thinking it is like 2,000 seats.

We can meet that, but right now we don't have to since we're not in CUSA, so we'd rather those seats go to the general public and/or students.

I can only find the CUSA Handbook for the 2011-12 season online, but per that, it states the following on Pg. 71:

Quote:The host institution shall provide the visiting institution with 400 complimentary tickets using its best efforts to provide the best seats available, and shall make 1,600 tickets available for sale by the visiting institution.

Read it in full here.

As fans, it's really got us wondering about expansion plans for 2015 - If we provide 2k seats for visiting teams, that's going to be a huge blow to student ticket availability or force some sort of expansion, either temporary bleachers or permanent seating structures. Our AD and Chancellor have prided themselves in giving students ample access to our sporting events - Roughly half of Halton Arena (basketball) and Richardson Stadium (7K of 15K capacity) are reserved for students, which pay a high portion of our athletics costs through student fees.

As far as seating goes, I'm happily found in the middle of Section 104 on most fall afternoons. The Orange in Sections 125,126 and 127 are reserved, I assume for visitors. The other orange sections in the corners are for non-fsl season ticket sales.


And unfortunately, on campus beer sales are not permitted per North Carolina statute.

(06-16-2014 01:58 PM)WKUYG Wrote:  

(06-16-2014 01:52 PM)Highflying49er Wrote:  

(06-16-2014 12:54 PM)Niner National Wrote:  

(06-16-2014 12:50 PM)ThreeifbyLightning Wrote:  I was trying to remember where the mandate comes from. Can't remember if its an NCAA policy left to the conferences to decide or if the conferences apply it independently, but every conference/school as a visiting ticket allocation policy.

Not sure what the minimum is in C-USA.

I'm thinking it is like 2,000 seats.

We can meet that, but right now we don't have to since we're not in CUSA, so we'd rather those seats go to the general public and/or students.

I can only find the CUSA Handbook for the 2011-12 season online, but per that, it states the following on Pg. 71:

Quote:The host institution shall provide the visiting institution with 400 complimentary tickets using its best efforts to provide the best seats available, and shall make 1,600 tickets available for sale by the visiting institution.

Read it in full here.

As fans, it's really got us wondering about expansion plans for 2015 - If we provide 2k seats for visiting teams, that's going to be a huge blow to student ticket availability or force some sort of expansion, either temporary bleachers or permanent seating structures. Our AD and Chancellor have prided themselves in giving students ample access to our sporting events - Roughly half of Halton Arena (basketball) and Richardson Stadium (7K of 15K capacity) are reserved for students, which pay a high portion of our athletics costs through student fees.

As far as seating goes, I'm happily found in the middle of Section 104 on most fall afternoons. The Orange in Sections 125,126 and 127 are reserved, I assume for visitors. The other orange sections in the corners are for non-fsl season ticket sales.


And unfortunately, on campus beer sales are not permitted per North Carolina statute.

Most teams will not bring close to 2000 visiting fans...probably in the 200 to 500 range. So the unused tickets should be sold as GA walk up tickets. I see it all the time ...

fans say we took a thousand or two to this or that game and it was actually about 1/4 of that.

(06-16-2014 02:38 PM)Niner National Wrote:  

(06-16-2014 01:58 PM)WKUYG Wrote:  

(06-16-2014 01:52 PM)Highflying49er Wrote:  

(06-16-2014 12:54 PM)Niner National Wrote:  

(06-16-2014 12:50 PM)ThreeifbyLightning Wrote:  I was trying to remember where the mandate comes from. Can't remember if its an NCAA policy left to the conferences to decide or if the conferences apply it independently, but every conference/school as a visiting ticket allocation policy.

Not sure what the minimum is in C-USA.

I'm thinking it is like 2,000 seats.

We can meet that, but right now we don't have to since we're not in CUSA, so we'd rather those seats go to the general public and/or students.

I can only find the CUSA Handbook for the 2011-12 season online, but per that, it states the following on Pg. 71:

Quote:The host institution shall provide the visiting institution with 400 complimentary tickets using its best efforts to provide the best seats available, and shall make 1,600 tickets available for sale by the visiting institution.

Read it in full here.

As fans, it's really got us wondering about expansion plans for 2015 - If we provide 2k seats for visiting teams, that's going to be a huge blow to student ticket availability or force some sort of expansion, either temporary bleachers or permanent seating structures. Our AD and Chancellor have prided themselves in giving students ample access to our sporting events - Roughly half of Halton Arena (basketball) and Richardson Stadium (7K of 15K capacity) are reserved for students, which pay a high portion of our athletics costs through student fees.

As far as seating goes, I'm happily found in the middle of Section 104 on most fall afternoons. The Orange in Sections 125,126 and 127 are reserved, I assume for visitors. The other orange sections in the corners are for non-fsl season ticket sales.


And unfortunately, on campus beer sales are not permitted per North Carolina statute.

Most teams will not bring close to 2000 visiting fans...probably in the 200 to 500 range. So the unused tickets should be sold as GA walk up tickets. I see it all the time ...

fans say we took a thousand or two to this or that game and it was actually about 1/4 of that.

Yeah I'm not really concerned about it. Marshall will probably take their full allotment since they have so many alums in the area, but nobody else in the conference will.

(06-16-2014 01:48 PM)WKUYG Wrote:  

(06-16-2014 01:38 PM)NTTHOR Wrote:  In the last spot of the stadium that gets shade...bottom corner opposite the wing zone

So where the X is? was really hoping we had UNT this year and on the road..I never had the chance to go to a game while UNT was in the SBC

(06-16-2014 02:58 PM)Cr8n Wrote:  We'll fill the entire 2000 at Charlotte. Now that ECU is gone Marshall and Charlotte are the 2 road games most can make easyish.

(06-16-2014 02:58 PM)Cr8n Wrote:  We'll fill the entire 2000 at Charlotte. Now that ECU is gone Marshall and Charlotte are the 2 road games most can make easyish.

(06-16-2014 01:53 PM)WKUYG Wrote:  

(06-16-2014 01:43 PM)DragonLair Wrote:  At UAB Visitors get wherever they like usually 50 yard line or wherever you can find a seat. (Shouldn't be to hard)

So no ushers making you sit in the section on your ticket? Year before last FIU had maybe 1000 fans counting the band and students and the ushers would not let you sit in any place other than your section which are not bad seats but there were only 25 of their fans...at the most sitting in the section between the 40s.