https://www.tuscaloosanews.com/story/sports/college/football/2023/09/04/alabama-football-texas-tickets-band-upper-deck-million-dollar-band-greg-byrne/70760736007/

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The Crimson Tide doesn't have to meet the SEC requirement of at least 2,000 visiting tickets located in the lower level of the stadium. And Alabama won't. All 5,000 visitor tickets, which include seats for the band, will be in the upper deck.
"We are able to reciprocate a similar seating arrangement to what we had last year in Austin," Alabama athletics director Greg Byrne told The Tuscaloosa News.
The No. 3 Crimson Tide (1-0) will play host to No. 12 Texas (1-0) on Saturday (6 p.m., ESPN).

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Good

they should put the band on one row around the top of the section

Welcome to the SEC
Hope it rains water and TDs on our friends from Austin

Excellent

Sure, cool, fine. If you can sell your stadium out you should be allowed to stick the visitors in the worst/cheapest section and fill the rest of it with your fans imo. If visitors want better seats they can go through the secondary market like half the home fans do anyway.

E: I don't know if they've made it harder to resell student tickets, but 10-15 years ago it was always funny when some hapless 60 year-old Auburn fan (or whoever) would make their way to the seat on their ticket and discover their "seat" was 10 inches of standing room in the Aggie student section, smushed like a sardine amid all that sweaty screaming maroon.

Wasn't the AC, also, not working in the Alabama locker rooms, at DKR? If so, that needs to be reciprocated as well.

Went to the game last year and sat way up in the cheap seats and I'm not going to lie, it's damn high. Walking up those steps got your legs burning haha.

Can't imagine doing it in a cringy polyester burnt orange leisure suit carrying a tuba...I hope they bring their asthma inhalers!

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Went to the game last year and sat way up in the cheap seats and I'm not going to lie, it's damn high. Walking up those steps got your legs burning haha.

Can't imagine doing it in a cringy polyester burnt orange leisure suit carrying a tuba...I hope they bring their asthma inhalers!

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Yep. Should offer to let them play half time too

Big deal, Bama. Shouldn't have let them into the conference.

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Wasn't the AC, also, not working in the Alabama locker rooms, at DKR? If so, that needs to be reciprocated as well.

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That was LSU.

Welcome to the pettiness that is sip. Everyone else will learn the hard way.

This makes me smile.

Good. And only one set of bathrooms for male & female, but none for transsexuals!

Welcome to the sec

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https://www.tuscaloosanews.com/story/sports/college/football/2023/09/04/alabama-football-texas-tickets-band-upper-deck-million-dollar-band-greg-byrne/70760736007/

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The Crimson Tide doesn't have to meet the SEC requirement of at least 2,000 visiting tickets located in the lower level of the stadium. And Alabama won't. All 5,000 visitor tickets, which include seats for the band, will be in the upper deck.
"We are able to reciprocate a similar seating arrangement to what we had last year in Austin," Alabama athletics director Greg Byrne told The Tuscaloosa News.
The No. 3 Crimson Tide (1-0) will play host to No. 12 Texas (1-0) on Saturday (6 p.m., ESPN).

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This will make it easier to spot those 2% fans of theirs filling out of the stadium in the 3rd quarter.

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Went to the game last year and sat way up in the cheap seats and I'm not going to lie, it's damn high. Walking up those steps got your legs burning haha.

Can't imagine doing it in a cringy polyester burnt orange leisure suit carrying a tuba...I hope they bring their asthma inhalers!

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... and their emotional support dildos ...

hopefully bama is starting to relize the crap they let into the sec

Supposedly Bama brought their AC units with them also

AgTrip said:

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Went to the game last year and sat way up in the cheap seats and I'm not going to lie, it's damn high. Walking up those steps got your legs burning haha.

Can't imagine doing it in a cringy polyester burnt orange leisure suit carrying a tuba...I hope they bring their asthma inhalers!

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Ha, ha, ha, don't forget those sip fans lugging their big bagful of dildoes up those stairs too!

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AgTrip said:

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Went to the game last year and sat way up in the cheap seats and I'm not going to lie, it's damn high. Walking up those steps got your legs burning haha.

Can't imagine doing it in a cringy polyester burnt orange leisure suit carrying a tuba...I hope they bring their asthma inhalers!

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Ha, ha, ha, don't forget those sip fans lugging their big bagful of dildoes up those stairs too!

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Before the band enters the stadium, sip employees should take the dildoes up into the stands and place them at the band members seats. The band has to carry their instruments up, so it would be helpful, logistically, if the dildoes were already in place ahead of their arrival.

Turnabout is fair play and all that, but...what a shame those arseholes got into the conference. I still haven't made peace with all this.
College football (one of the only sporting seasons i truly love and follow) is changing so much that it's beginning to be something i no longer recognize and connect with.
Oh well...at least i have this season to enjoy.
I know, old man yells at cloud.
Too much change

BaileyAg said:

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Turnabout is fair play and all that, but...what a shame those arseholes got into the conference. I still haven't made peace with all this.
College football (one of the only sporting seasons i truly love and follow) is changing so much that it's beginning to be something i no longer recognize and connect with.
Oh well...at least i have this season to enjoy.
I know, old man yells at cloud.
Too much change

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Ten thousand blue stars!

BaileyAg said:

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Turnabout is fair play and all that, but...what a shame those arseholes got into the conference. I still haven't made peace with all this.
College football (one of the only sporting seasons i truly love and follow) is changing so much that it's beginning to be something i no longer recognize and connect with.
Oh well...at least i have this season to enjoy.
I know, old man yells at cloud.
Too much change

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"Old man yells at cloud" does not apply when one is speaking the truth IMO.

BaileyAg said:

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Turnabout is fair play and all that, but...what a shame those arseholes got into the conference. I still haven't made peace with all this.
College football (one of the only sporting seasons i truly love and follow) is changing so much that it's beginning to be something i no longer recognize and connect with.
Oh well...at least i have this season to enjoy.
I know, old man yells at cloud.
Too much change

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For the last year or so I've been thinking that in 5 years, I doubt I'll be watching ANY college football -- a sport I literally grew up on and have probably watched more than any other TV genre in my life, movies included.

BaileyAg said:

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Turnabout is fair play and all that, but...what a shame those arseholes got into the conference. I still haven't made peace with all this.
College football (one of the only sporting seasons i truly love and follow) is changing so much that it's beginning to be something i no longer recognize and connect with.
Oh well...at least i have this season to enjoy.
I know, old man yells at cloud.
Too much change

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Turns out the only 8 "Aggies" who were for it were actually on the Board of Regents

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BaileyAg said:

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Turnabout is fair play and all that, but...what a shame those arseholes got into the conference. I still haven't made peace with all this.
College football (one of the only sporting seasons i truly love and follow) is changing so much that it's beginning to be something i no longer recognize and connect with.
Oh well...at least i have this season to enjoy.
I know, old man yells at cloud.
Too much change

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Turns out the only 8 "Aggies" who were for it were actually on the Board of Regents

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And they should have to turn in their rings and resign from the board.

I look forward to these two having petty fights over who gets to run the conference.

BaileyAg said:

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Turnabout is fair play and all that, but...what a shame those arseholes got into the conference. I still haven't made peace with all this.
College football (one of the only sporting seasons i truly love and follow) is changing so much that it's beginning to be something i no longer recognize and connect with.
Oh well...at least i have this season to enjoy.
I know, old man yells at cloud.
Too much change

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They were always gonna get in. We should have had language built in that expressly denied their entry into the SEC tied to a huge cash settlement in the case that they inevitably were allowed in. That would have never got signed, and there would have been your answer.

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Welcome to the pettiness that is sip. Everyone else will learn the hard way.

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The rest of the SEC still has no idea what they've let into the conference.

So much emotional baggage on this thread

I am there for ya!

The way the SEC can make the Sips behave themselves is to keep beating the crap out of them !

All-time record, sips are 7-2-1 against Bama.

TCU also has a winning record against Bama, 3-2.