TXAGBQ76 said:
So the discussion went from GA ticket availability to student ticket availability.
1. Season tickets are what pays the bills. I guess if you want to limit the number of season tickets sold you can do that, but that would mean the GA ticket price would have to go up significantly to offset the reduction in the number of season tickets sold.
2. If reducing the number of student tickets available, you can eliminate all GA ticket availability and make all of the non-season tickets student only. people who do not meet one of these two categories can buy from season holders who have extra tickets- much as it is now.
3. If atmosphere is your concern, we need all of the non-season ticket seats to be students as they set the atmosphere, any other attendees would not add to the atmosphere per se.
4. As someone else said, why not both?
Double the price of GA for non students.
I have advocated for that many times
Your other points are just wrong... adults with their own kids in the stands add plenty... it's baseball... the students are no more "atmospheric" than anyone else
I am ok with letting students in 10 minutes before the others. It's their park and they should get first crack. But arrive late, and it's to the grass for you
As for buying from season ticket holders, forget it... this has been discussed ad nauseum... their tickets are their toys, to play with or not... they're too lazy to sell them or they just don't care..... because those tickets are MINE
The solution is this:
Double the price of GA. Open the gates to students 1.5 hours before 1st pitch, everyone else 10 minutes later... make it much easier for season ticket holders to transfer IF THEY WANT... 12MF went the opposite direction on this... literally, make it as easy as ONE CLICK to relinquish tickets to the open market. I think many season tickets would be glad to do this.