I worked throughout college and only missed one game. I was in the hospital having surgery (Nebraska '98, of all the games to miss). If things are important to you, you make it happen.

$83 is nothing for a ticket ...you should have of course got a sportspass but I don't want to hear your crying... since I graduated I have paid near $1000 a year to see my Aggies win or lose...suck it up and go to the game...!!!

i was one of those that didn't get a dime from my parents for living expenses, education, etc. i worked my ass off in addition to student loans. i still found a way to pay an additional $170 for a sports pass.

so i take offense to people who assume that because i bought a sports pass, it's because "mommy and daddy" bought it for me. i've NEVER been handed anything in my life. if it meant that much to me, i found a way to make it happen.

Bandit, I haven't bought tickets since Dollar Bill came.

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Gig 'em. Old Army '82

No sob stories, please.

If wanted bad enough and scheduled properly, a student can sell bodily fluids and make enough money to purchase a sports pass.

This thread needs alot of kleenex.

We sure have our share of cry babies.

Damn, I must have hit a nerve with some of you. I have an all sportspass thanks to scholarship refunds from A&M.

I am getting the tickets for some friends who usually can't make it to the games due to work and some Indian grad students.

People who say crap like:

"student without sportspass.....yeah jumping on the bandwagon can be expensive"

probably wouldn't understand financial obligations.

well if the sportspass is a finacial problem, the OU game cannot be justified and they should not go and shut up.

Rocks for Brains,

I agree. Its all about cost-benefit.

I guess it's just kind of frustrating when you are trying to introduce Aggieland to some new students /grad students in the proper way. I would love to bring them to Kyle Field, but its probably better overall to go to a Basketball game at Reed instead.

That is all.

I'll be paying off student loans for a long, long time, but you gotta be kidding me if I didn't have a sports pass!!! The good thing about student loans is that you don't start paying until you have a "real job".

Alias

Not so Genius...

I don't know if the original poster is a student or not. The original poster was commenting on the price of student tickets, w/out a pass. Based on the post, we don't even know if the original poster is going to game, or planning on going to the game, or just commenting on something they see as a fact.

There was a response:

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What kind of "student"- not an AGGIE- doesn't get a sportspass?

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This was a general question, to which I replied with an answer of the "kind of 'student'" that doesn't get a sportspass.

wheelz

Sure you can still have some great holidays. I was making a point, defending why some people miss games, or may not find buying a sportspass a wise investment. I worked one Christmas Eve, and left work at 3:30am on Christmas Day. Got home at around 7am, and had to turnaround the next morning having to be at work by 11am in CS. For me, it was a fact of life, and as disappointing as it was to miss certain things, it was the way it was... But people don't need people questioning their motives, and belittling them, just because they might be from privelage. Yes, some people have/had more money than others, it is part of our Socio-Economic world. I was making sure that someone perched in privelage might actually consider not everyone is wealthy.

Frisco
Exactly.

john2002ag

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If things are important to you, you make it happen.

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Yeah, given the choice of being in college, or going to a football game... I'll take my degree.

AggieJen

You go girl...

Rest

I'm not complaining... I just take exception to someone questioning another Ag who may not be able to make it to games.

Go to the games, and and try to do it without using any services... like going to a gas station, eating at a restraunt, or staying at a hotel. There are jobs filled by students that keep them from going to games.

The only reason this guy has to pay full price is because you cant purchase the "student priced" tickets until friday. Those are only sold at that price if available. He is getting this ticket because without having a sports pass, that is the only guaranteed way to get a ticket, especially if he wants to sit with his friends

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Yeah... the kinda student who comes from a family whose parents weren't privelaged enough to go to college, and have to work, to put themselves through school.

Not everyone has a silver spoon, like apparently you do, who can a) afford not to work b) afford to pay for entertainment that won't get to use.

Some students actually work at the restraunts that you and your family enjoy before or after the game, and thus, can't also be at the game

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Uhh, my parents didn't go to college, and I had to work while I was at A&M. I worked my butt off during the summer at crappy jobs that paid good so I wouldn't have to work on game days. A football only sports pass isn't all that expensive and well worth the money. You may work at the restaurants that I eat at after the game, but that's a lot better than grinding numbers off oil pipe and cleaning the grease traps inside the mill.

DallasAG, who made you work in the service industry to get through school? What were you, some kinda student martyr? I should feel sorry for you for working, please? Here's a good tip, if you want to go to games, don't get a job in the service industry. That'll be $5 plus 15% gratiuty!

really

I'm not trying to be a martyr.

I'm saying not everyone who misses a game, or who doesn't get a sports pass is a bad Ag. There are actual cases, where people have legitimate reasons for not making a game.

Really, If everyone took your advice and didnt work in a service industry, there would be no "bad AG's", but there also wouldnt be anyone to feed the thousands of extra people that flood College Station on game days!



~Lysis. . . .Class of 05