I don’t see the logic in restricting students who wish to give away their tickets. In the end, it will just reduce the number of students sitting in the stadium.

Also, I love the massive ticket exchange that goes on at the southeast gates minutes before the game. It looks like the Chicago Board of Trade sometimes.

that students won’t be able to sell their tickets anymore? Or can they still sell them through the ticket exchange?
And if they can sell them, will they only be able to sell them to other students, or can us old heads still buy them and pay the extra $25 at the BJC to be able to use them?

I’m thinking about going back for a masters degree just so I can sit in the student section for 6 more years! Do they have a masters program for beer, women and football?

I understand the need to keep people from profiting 1000s on scalping tickets but now a person can’t even give away a ticket to a game they can’t attend for whatever reason. There needs to be some leeway or this will feel very overbearing, the school is basically saying you can’t do what you want to do with your own property.

ability to sell their tix, I fail to understand why students should not be allowed. Sometimes missing a game is out of the ticketholders control. I do like tying ticketing to the ID for efficiency and cost savings.

However, I can empathize with those students who miss out on season tickets, only to see those who were able to get them – with no intent on attending, sell for big $$.

i couldn’t attend some of the games due to personal matters (guard duty, traveling for other psu sports, etc.), so i either gave the tix away or sold them at face value.

i know the people (non students, alumni, that is)that were on the recieving end were only too happy to take them off my hands.

i understand why the administration is doing this, but i am not sure this is the answer.

when they discussed this last year, the plan includes an online exchange. So if you are a student and buy season tickets, you will have the ability to transfer the ticket to another student’s ID for face value.

It sounds like non-students might be out here, but there is still a possibility that could work the $25 stamp they run now into the system. This eliminates blatent student scalping, and the priority should be to allow all students a chance to see the games at a reasonable price. This does that.

This is going to create a situation where students become Cosa Nostra. They will sell tickets for face value but make side deals with the buyer. Not sure how they will work considering once the ticket is purchased, the buyer can stiff the student for the rest of the “side deal” money. This will cause more fights and outrage.

Let them sell tickets. Penn State has a great business school, the students are just using what they learn in school, law of supply and demand

of the masses, that is how the Man keeps us down.

I was surprised today to see this as the top story of the Collegian. The Ath. Dept. mentioned months ago that they were looking to do this. I think its a great idea.

But this addresses the major problem, as I see it — students who buy a season ticket package solely for the profit down the road. If this reduces the demand for the profit-seekers and still allows transfers for individual tickets, that’s pretty good.

This is good for students. The only people this pisses off are the ones who like to sell their Ohio State or Michigan ticket for $200 or the student who gets season tickets because he/she likes to go to one or two games a year and doesn’t want to pay $200 a ticket. Theoretically now it’s easier for that student who only goes to one or two games a year to buy individual tickets at the ticket exchange website for a reasonable price.

It seems to me the system now is geared to get tickets into the hands of people who want to go to the games and keeps it out of the hands of the people who just want to turn them around for illegal profit. This is a good thing.

I’m a junior right now, and for the past two years have been screwed out of student tickets while hundreds of students sell their tickets for a profit (and by profit I mean upwards of $1500, when we pay only about $220 for our season tickets), leaving the loyal Lion fans (i.e. myself) having to scramble, or pay a ridiculous amount of money for a ticket. I’ll hold my judgements until the system is in place, but at this point, I only see this as a positive in that it rewards students who actually bought tickets to attend the games to actually go, while weeding out the ones who only want to sell them for profit. Only the most loyal and spirited fans are allowed to go to the games, as it should be.

I think this is a great thing and a long time coming. When I attended, you were practically guaranteed season tickets and in my 4 years I didn’t miss a game. I think it is sad that some students are not getting the opportunity to purchase season tickets. The more things in place to ensure that current students are able to get tickets the better.

In fact, there is nothing more annoying that a 70 year old man complaining that people are standing in front of him while he is sitting in the student section. Students are the the loudest, craziest, most intense fans in the stadium and for that reason alone should dictate the value of getting actual students into the student section.