Unfair ticketing process for SEC Championship Game

I’m writing in regards to the unfair ticket distribution of the SEC Championship game towards UGA seniors. It’s a heartbreaking story for seniors who are graduating this year but are still deprived of cheering their Dawgs one last time at the Georgia Dome due to unfair conditions set by the University Athletic Department that requires students to have at least 98 UGA credit hours in order to be considered for tickets.

Many of these die hard Georgia fans are exemplary students that have worked hard in order to graduate in time (meaning the traditional four years), but don’t have the 98 UGA credit hours because some were over achievers and took Advanced Placement classes in high school, and some, due to misfortunes could not attend UGA as a  freshman. We have a thing at Georgia called “Finishing the Drill.” It’s about how you finish, not how your start which was exemplified but the football team this year that started 0-2 only to win the East.

Instead of the University applauding the soon to be graduating seniors for their hard work by granting us tickets to the Championship game, they are punishing us because we tried to finish the drill in four instead of five years, transferred because we wanted a better education, and or because we tried hard to stand out in high school by taking AP classes so that UGA would consider accepting us as freshman’s with their almost impossible requirements.

What’s funny is that the University is promoting being a slacker student; meet the minimum requirements to get in as a freshman, take your time and get that degree whenever you feel like it so that you can have 98 UGA credit hours a semester before graduating. In order to protest this, I emailed University President Michael Adams who, as always, did not respond, and the Athletic Director Greg McGarity emailed me back and told me that a gentleman by the name Tim would get back to me which he did and explained the whole ticket distribution process. As a representative of the class of 2012, I ask that the University administration to undo the wrong they have done and redistribute tickets to all graduating students, or cough up $200+ to us so that we can scalp some tickets.

FARID PARSA

Senior, Kennesaw

Finance