BOL Round Table

This isn't directed at you, as I have no idea what your friends' situations are...

BUT...

...the "if I could buy student tickets I would, but I'm stuck on the waiting list," argument sort of irks me. It irks me because 8 years ago, there WAS NO WAITING LIST. I know, because I graduated and I (along with all my classmates that applied) got tickets the very first year. 5 years ago there was a waiting list, but if you were on it then, you should have gotten tickets with the most recent expansion.

Now, obviously there are people who have only graduated or gotten to a position where they can afford tickets in the last 5 years... but I see an awful lot of people claiming that they'd like to have the opportunity to buy them, but can't. And some of those people need to be asked... where was your application and money when we were 4-7? 3-8? 4-9? 6-7?

I was there and the student upper deck seating is a big problem. It looks very bad and it shows up on TV too. How do the other "big" schools manage to not have 2 sections empty every game?

Saban always gets what he wants. Ergo, I'm not going to be overly codependent about the students bolting prematurely.
When I was a student there, we left the stadium at Halftime whenever we had a beat down going & you weren't gonna stop us, as we had serious drinking to do. Nowadays, I won't leave until the end of Rammer Jammer - ever. So, some things do change in time.

Huskypup, that is BS, the mostly empty the second half, at least in the lower end zone and upper deck. Also, the upper deck was never full. If the students don't want to sit in the upperdeck, so be it, but sell the tickets to people who are waiting on tickets and will fill the seats. IMO it is pathetic. I have been trying to figure out why the university sells a lot of student tickets for three quarters only. It has to be something along these lines, because the student section is at least half empty every fourth quarter unless we are in a nail biter.

sat right by the fence next to the student section in the south end zone upper deck. it was filled until halftime

IF YOU HAVE NOT EVER BEEN IN THE SOUTH ENDZONE WITH A 20 MPH WIND. THEN YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND! IT IS VERY COLD!!!!! LOOK AT THE NORTH ENDZONE!!!

Three comments here:

A) It's general admission. If the upper deck is too cold for you, get there earlier.

B) I understand cold. As a freshman in 2000 I was so excited to go to my first Iron Bowl, that my buddies and I got there more than 3 hours early, so we'd have our pick when they opened the gates 3 hours before kickoff. I sat through 3 hours of pinhead sized hail only to have that turn to freezing rain ~15 minutes before kickoff, so that I could watch as sh*tty a 9-0 ballgame as I have ever seen soaking wet and freezing. Stayed until the clock hit 0:00 and then I got back to my dormroom and into a hot shower as quickly as possible.

C) It's the student section. Someone nearby has a flask of Jim Beam taped to their leg that you can swipe a couple of sips of to warm up.

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