Ticketing trials

The electronic ticket system is faulty at best and students will not benefit.

Let the ticket fiasco begin.

Starting in the fall, the University will implement a new electronic ticket policy – one that is sure to draw the ire of many students.

The main problem is this: if students are not awarded tickets to home games this fall, they will not be going, plain and simple.

For the 2009 season, tickets awarded to students can only be used by the student who received the ticket because there will not be a ticket donation bank.

If a student gets a ticket and can’t go, then the ticket will go to waste – there will be no way to transfer it to another student.

Although the association has discussed implementing a donation pool for the 2010 season, students will not be reimbursed if they give their tickets up.

And the editorial board thinks that is simply wrong.

We realize this policy was put into place to prevent scalping, which it has done, but it also will prevent students from going to games, which is simply unacceptable.

Things happen, and if a student cannot attend one of the games they have tickets to, then give another student the opportunity to go in their place.

Even if the Athletic Association charges for waiting list tickets, then it will make more money – that’s essentially what this boils down to. Getting two students to pay for the same ticket is a money-maker’s dream.

We believe an electronic ticket system can work, but until all the kinks are ironed out, the Athletic Association should hold off implementing one.

- Michael Fitzpatrick for the editorial board