Students must attend one of two events to claim tickets for football game against MSU
By Matt Thompson on April 22, 2012 4:28 pm / 8 comments
Two thousand more seats are being allotted to the student section to accommodate the high demand of people wanting to attend the Central Michigan football game against Michigan State Sept. 8.
Students will still be able to get in free of charge as usual, but have to go to one of two events at the end of August to load the ticket on a valid CMU ID.
Students will have to go to either MAINstage on Aug. 26 or the first football game Aug. 30 against Southeast Missouri State.
The ticket loading system will only be in effect for the MSU game. For all other games, students will just need to bring a student ID at the gates.
“We saw a growing demand, and we are thrilled that we can accommodate our student body’s interest with the additional seats,” Athletics Director Dave Heeke said. “They are such an important part of our atmosphere. Based on the feedback we’ve heard, we expect the tickets to go extremely fast.”
The 2,000 additional seats will bump the student section size to 10,000 students. It will make one-third of the total capacity at Kelly/Shorts Stadium.
A committee of campus student leaders came together to finalize how ticketing procedures would go for the game.
“We wanted to come up with a fair system for all CMU students who will be enrolled next semester, and we worked consciously as a group of students to do the right thing,” Detroit junior and committee member Darryl Maxwell said. “It has all come together and I am very happy with everything.”
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8 Comments
talk about artificially inflating attendance numbers…
Thank God my daughter is on the danceteam. And as an athletic booster I am allowed to purchase 2 tickets for the game. Of course I sold them as I get in free w/ dance! no over inflating this games attendance and with almost all Saturday games attendance should b up!! FIRE UP CHIPS!!! Almost e1 goes to the 1st game but mainstage is usually freshmen.
So it comes to this, we have to bribe people to attend CMU events.
This is no different than a school having its students camp out for tickets to games (i.e. Michigan State, Duke, etc.).. The student leaders who helped make this decision clearly thought it was a good idea and did a tremendous job IMO of protecting us as students
Great, now you can feel the bitter tinge of blackmail as you watch your school football team get eviscerated on your home field, mixed with the drunken haze and sweaty press surrounding you as you realize, “Why did I do this again?!”
CMU is giving away to students what it will be unable to sell to alumni and friends. Under Enos, the once strong support and enthusiasm for Chippewa football has withered. People know this team will be unable to compete MSU with Enos’ outdated offense and tepid leadership.
Florence, you don’t know football, so I suggest you stop making statements about something you know nothing about. What will be interesting is when CMU starts winning again, will you be a wagon-jumper like so many others??? FIRE UP CHIPS
When you resort to attacking the messenger, rather than attempting to counter the message, it demonstrates you CAN’T counter the message.