So i learned today and confirmed with the 12th Man Foundation that the new President of Texas A&M has taken rows 27-33 of sections 125 and 126 away from the 12th Man and reserved them for university use - whatever that means.

Visiting Dignitaries, professors and researchers being recruited to A&M, etc. Seems like a lot of seats, but seems valid in concept.

How many points did he have? What was his rank?

Why would the university stick these people on the east side?

That's like 588 seats taken away...

I hope they will be sharing the alcohol further down!

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Visiting Dignitaries, professors and researchers being recruited to A&M, etc. Seems like a lot of seats, but seems valid in concept.

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If the decision to do this was made (1)before the section selection process and (2) if they had notified potential season ticket holders in these sections this was a possibility then it would be a valid concept. The fact that these seats were taken away 2 months ago and no one was notified is just disingenuous. But make no mistake I will be at every Fightin Texas Aggie home game this year and in the years to come it will just be 7 rows closer to the field.

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How many points did he have? What was

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That is a crazy amount of seats. Not happy.

So we will put dignitaries on bench seats in the sun with the students? And we have 500+ dignitaries a game? Wtf

Should have been public knowledge over a year ago.

President is worried about the deflection in the new West side and he is moving his 500 VIPs to the east so they can watch that sucker sway.

It appears that the original interactive seating map (still available online) clearly implies that all of the East side Bench would be sold to purchasers - all the way up to the suite level. The map can be seen online here:


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The view on the 3d map makes the 26-33 section look foreshortened so that the actual (quite large -8/33 rows) appears to be quite small.

Very poor form and seems disingenuous at worst and tacked-on and poorly thought out at best. Is there another solution? Is there a class-action suit for this one?

If you guys don't like it then you should just try harder to be president

Sul ross would have punched you girls in the dick

Girls with dicks. YUCK!

That is a crap-ton of seats in the sun.

I also noted that the southwest corner of section 300 is now faculty and staff. I'm pretty sure that entire south 300 section was for 12th man season ticket holders when we selected our sections last year. Now those seats won't be available?

I hope those dignitaries don't mind standing up!!!

Horrible decision

very few "dignitaries" are going to sit outside
for a day game in the heat
But with the weather gets cooler and night games happen
The president will have seats to pass out at his discretion

Did they pay their donation? Like 1 k to 2k per seat.

Perhaps it is going to be used for prospective student recruiting? I don't know why they would want tickets on the east side otherwise.

Guess I am now okay that I couldn't stay in that section. I would be livid if I was a first-picker in that section. The areas being discussed are the only seats that can really justify $1k per seat donations.

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Why would the university stick these people on the east side?

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So new army can make them feel welcomed by calling them olds, screaming at them to yell like hyenas, uncover and stand up.

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It appears that the original interactive seating map (still available online) clearly implies that all of the East side Bench would be sold to purchasers - all the way up to the suite level. The map can be seen online here:


link

The view on the 3d map makes the 26-33 section look foreshortened so that the actual (quite large -8/33 rows) appears to be quite small.

Very poor form and seems disingenuous at worst and tacked-on and poorly thought out at best. Is there another solution? Is there a class-action suit for this one?

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There are plenty of West Side seats that based on the interactive seating map (even now) are available for purchase, but when seat selection started you found that multiple rows in each section were unavailable for selection (and these aren't rows that have been selected by regular/endowed donors).

Ditto the NE Bench Letterman section -- it expanded and the interactive map never changed to reflect it.

Perhaps discovery in the lawsuits will answer some of these ?s.

This wasn't done by the new president. It was the interim president that held up re-seating a week to secure these seats. They are also trying to ease the masses by saying the tickets came from the student allotment. Well that's true, but it is also a little misleading. The tickets came from the student allotment but they stole seats from donors. Faculty/staff also got section 127 during the delay.

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Perhaps it is going to be used for prospective student recruiting? I don't know why they would want tickets on the east side otherwise.

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Because they couldn't have the west side tickets for free. Too much revenue lost by giving those away. East yard line was the concession.

West Field Box shows every row of each section available on the Kyle Field page, but the first 5-6 rows of each section are actually not available for selection... You don't know that until you get in the system though.

Guessing it's for recruits, players families, etc... but still a bit disingenuous to have a website that shows what availability you are shelling out $$$ for only to find that availability isn't truthful.

I agree. Aggies don't lie, cheat, or steal, but will mislead the hell out of you for money.

...and you know, quite a few folks questioned how much they dropped in the percentage pecking order within a section from initial selection to final determination. Most figured it was the change in priority points from capital payments. I'm starting to think a lot of it was seats disappearing within the section.

the lowest rows on the west side have been players families tickets
for quite some time in the past those rows could not see over the team

if the reports are accurate approximately
15% of the better seats in that ticket block
just disappeared

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the lowest rows on the west side have been players families tickets
for quite some time in the past those rows could not see over the team

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That's really irrelevant to new Kyle. If they were still going to be unavailable today that should have been communicated. Area will also have bar access now. I mean, I used to have staff armchair seats 2nd deck west side. I'm not assuming I get club seats in new Kyle.

EDs bout to gain some allies?

I hope the lowered field fixes that problem seeing as
I will be sitting closer to field level on the east side
than I had originally planned

That being said at least reserving tickets in a similar location
for recruits and families is more justifiable than

Taking 500+ of the best seats in a block and
reserving it for the University President at his discretion
is impossible to justify

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and you know, quite a few folks questioned how much they dropped in the percentage pecking order within a section from initial selection to final determination. Most figured it was the change in priority points from capital payments. I'm starting to think a lot of it was seats disappearing within the section.

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This.

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Why would the university stick these people on the east side?

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Because donation levels on the west side are a lot higher and they didn't want to lose those dollars.