Empty seats at Lynah

[French Rage]

Everything went down hill once they gave out the "I did my time in the line" shirts.  Getting the tickets wasn't supposed to be the accomplishment; showing up to every game afterwards was.

Didn't the student council used to subsidize tickets?  Do they still do that?

[underskill]

Maybe sports generally are losing their appeal.

Living in the limelight, the universal dream
For those who wish to see;
Those who wish to be, must put aside the alienation
Get on with the fascination
The real relation, the underlying theme

Maybe the little bastids prefer to actually live.

At least Geddy still has his Blue Jays tix behind home plate.

[Trotsky]

Donald Sutherland has no Expos anymore.  :-(

[Big Dingus]

The building was full on Saturday. You guys literally complain about everything

[Big Dingus]

Also no one wants to camp out anymore... This isn't the 80s get used to it

[Big Dingus]

It was sold out every game in 19-20

[Iceberg]

Also no one wants to camp out anymore... This isn't the 80s get used to it

There were people camping out as recently as my freshman year (2010-11). I think it stopped shortly after

[Chris '03]

The building was full on Saturday. You guys literally complain about everything

I guess a lot of folks dressed up as empty bleachers for Halloween then.

[ugarte]

You guys literally complain about everything

For a dingus you picked up on the ethos here pretty quick.

[RichH]

That looks exactly on beam.

Depends whose "day" you mean by "our day."  In the early 60s it was a $25 CUAA coupon book that got a student into every sports event.

Well, in the early 60s we sucked.  Supply and demand.  Do we still just give free football tix to students?

I had a CUAA book 64-68. Harkness years when we SO did not suck.  Don't know how they handled overflow, I'm sure there were times when that happened.

Football was not included in the book if I recall corectly, but the coupon was good for a discount.  Might be time to resurrect the CUAA Book (which only students could buy) and do the same thing for hockey.

And yeah, give free football tix to students. Pizza too.

The fact that back then one had to camp out overnight to get season tickets made them more valuable. Adding the value of one's time to the price made season tickets something that one would not want to waste. Moreover, if one had some other event, it was easy to find someone to take the ticket. So real attendance, as opposed to formal attendance (tickets sold), was never an issue.

Yes, Yes Yes!
The fact that you had to camp out to get the tickets meant that you were a diehard fan.  As a freshman, the whole ticket line experience made me the diehard fan that I still am today.  I don't know how season tickets are distributed today, but if it is some online lottery, then other than the cost of the tickets - which is trivial for a large percentage of the student body - it does nothing to ensure that a devoted fan base is built.

The fact that you had to camp out to get the tickets meant that you were a diehard fan.  As a freshman, the whole ticket line experience made me the diehard fan that I still am today.  I don't know how season tickets are distributed today, but if it is some online lottery, then other than the cost of the tickets - which is trivial for a large percentage of the student body - it does nothing to ensure that a devoted fan base is built.

Correct.

We also built relationships (ahem, but hockey also) on that overnight.  We met people and because we were in similar positions in the line we formed blocs, and so you had ready-made friend groups going into ticket selection, and those carried over into games.  Even the cheating, where one frat turd would somehow turn into 20 brothers 4 minutes before the door opened, meant there were blocs of comrades in arms.  This all helped with the coordination of cheers, and the encouragement of creativity which has been the single greatest casualty of the change.

The beginning of the end of Hot Truck was when they started taking phone orders. If you didn't have to order in person and wait outside on the steps with everyone else, it ceased being a community.

On the Lynah topic, the line is the obvious focal point, but for me, the biggest change was the arrival time. Mid-90s, the student section was decently full for warmups and beginning the heckling. 10 years later, mostly empty until intros. 5 years after that, arriving mid-1st was common. Normalize arriving late, and you normalize not going at all.

The "line" in the '00s and '10s was a manufactured event, after the announcement of ticket locations produced near stampedes across campus. It became "here, sit in this building for an hour and have a t-shirt."

[underskill]

01-02 was the last true outdoor camp out for tix. By 02-03 they started moving it indoors IIRC

[BearLover]

Also no one wants to camp out anymore... This isn't the 80s get used to it

There were people camping out as recently as my freshman year (2010-11). I think it stopped shortly after

What??? I had great seats in B that year, didn't camp for one second.

[BearLover]

It was sold out every game in 19-20

No it was not...

[Scersk '97]

Normalize arriving late, and you normalize not going at all.

I've always wished there were a way to "resell" the seats of no-shows.

[billhoward]

Cornell has figured this out with admissions, where they take a relatively large percentage of ED candidates partly because they want a student body that is happy to be there, rather than kids who didn't get in to HYP.

And it also helps the yield (admits who choose to attend) which is another factor supposedly showing the school's exclusivity.