Split-season tickets spark fury
Upset sophomores and juniors sounded off on Facebook, in letters and via telephone calls Sunday after discovering they were awarded a split football season ticket package.
“I’m frustrated with the Athletic Association,” Will Brown, a sophomore from Roswell, said. “They are at the will of the almighty dollar. The decision to award split tickets was a decision made out of greed.”
Brown said he has earned 42 credit hours at the University, and he only received tickets to the Georgia Southern, Alabama and Vanderbilt games. He said he is writing Athletic Director Damon Evans to express outrage.
Some nursing students participating in the University partnership with the Medical College of Georgia did not receive tickets.
Alisa Fish, a junior from Marietta, said she received an e-mail on Sunday explaining that tickets were in high demand and she wasn’t registered for enough credit hours. But Fish has completed 68 University hours and is enrolled in 15 hours this semester, she said.
Fish said she is unsure of why she didn’t get tickets. She said Athens’ MCG students pay the same fees as all University students.
“The whole point of having the branch here is so we can have the same privileges as UGA students,” she said.
Fish said she and other nursing students plan to wait until Monday to see if MCG can work out an arrangement.
