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It's time to acknowledge DRad's part in this student fiasco
Oct 10, 2017, 10:29 AM
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The proposal to charge students for tickets is what started ALL of this insanity that we're seeing now.
That is what triggered the petitions. That is what triggered the terrible plan from student government.
The root cause of this student ticket issue is DRad. People need to start remembering that if we want to light a fire that will get this fixed.
We had what was essential the perfect college football school up until all of this started. Now we're 6-0 and projected to return to the title game with one of the most dominant defenses ever and the ONLY thing we are talking about is the broken student ticket system...a system that wasn't broken and led to the best student section in college football.
The student section is the heart of Death Valley. Tampering with that is significant and at some point, it's time to come out and say the following words:
"We will never charge for student tickets at Clemson. The changes made this year were a mistake and they are being scrapped immediately. We may look at better solutions in the future, but right now we have to correct this problem and go back to what we know works until further notice."
Here's the origin: https://www.tigernet.com/story/football/Students-to-be-charged-for-lower-deck-football-tickets-14751
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Did students get charged? NO
Oct 10, 2017, 10:42 AM
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this is a red herring for other failures and over-reactions by student gubmint
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Re: Did students get charged? NO
Oct 10, 2017, 10:46 AM
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Students didn't get charged, but the petitions for changing the way student tickets were handled all started in response to this.
It is the root cause.
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Re: Did students get charged? NO
Oct 10, 2017, 2:53 PM
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Unfortunately the online platform started in 2015, so you're incorrect in stating that this plan started it all.
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Re: It's time to acknowledge DRad's part in this student fiasco
Oct 10, 2017, 10:51 AM
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Calling students untapped revenue is the dumbest thing he has done. They are future customers.
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As a reminder, customers pay***
Oct 10, 2017, 10:53 AM
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Re: As a reminder, customers pay***
Oct 10, 2017, 12:11 PM
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As a reminder:
1. Just won the natty without needing to resort to that. 2. Our student section was the best in college football. 3. Everything is broken now because somebody wanted to squeeze some extra money out of the students.
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Re: As a reminder, customers pay***
Oct 10, 2017, 2:55 PM
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As a reminder:
1) Winning the natty has very little to do with students being/not being charged for tickets 2) The online platform was pretty much the same in 2015, 2016, and this year so that can't be the reason the student section is down 3) See point 2
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Re: It's time to acknowledge DRad's part in this student fiasco
Oct 10, 2017, 2:14 PM
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Exactly. All that for a potential $1.8 million? It's a drop in the bucket for our budget.
The problem is after all these issues this year they are going to have an open channel to try it again.
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He can't make this statement:
Oct 10, 2017, 2:22 PM
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"We will never charge for student tickets at Clemson."
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Re: He can't make this statement:
Oct 10, 2017, 2:50 PM
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Something along those lines then.
"We have no plans to..."
"We have no intention to..."
"We are committed to the tradition of free student tickets..."
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