Athletics-Student Focus Group for Football

Hey all,

Another thing that I wanted to post were the key ideas for the upcoming football season. These are ideas that the Athletic Department is considering on implementing for the 2008 season. We talked about this briefly at the last Shared Gov. meeting and I just wanted to post the main ideas on the blog. If anyone has any comments or any questions, please email me at hulick@wisc.edu. Also if you guys have any other ideas or any thoughts about things that the athletic department could do to improve things, let me know and I will get your ideas to the department. It is very important to them that they have student input and your voice will be heard if you go through Andrew or I. With that said here are some proposed ideas for the 2008 season (like I said email me if you want clarification because I will be vague on the blog):

1. Eliminating Section P as an upperclassmen section (therefore this section will fill up quicker and the upperclassmen cant abuse the privilege of showing up late and still having such good seats)

2. Section Seating w/ wristbands (instead of having individual seat with a ticket, everyone will get a wristband and will be assigned to sit in the lower or upper half of a section; lines will be shorter, seating will be more efficient, and there will be less chaos with the per-mar and police as far as getting through the stairs up to your section).

3. Pick up tickets at Camp Randall instead of mailing them out (people were selling mailed out tickets and claiming they never got them in the mail).

4. Later On-Sale Date (sell all tickets in June now- instead of selling them to us in May and incoming freshmen in June just sell them all in June; people were registering for tickets when they would graduate in May and full well know that weren't going to be a student here in the fall)

5. Going to a lottery system in football (The trend is that tickets are selling out too fast. It went for 3 weeks four years ago to 2 1/2 days last year. This could cause multiple problems for the department if they sell out in under a day next year, so they are trying to figure out a way to sell to the demand without running into the time constraint problems.) 

These are the main ideas for football. Like I said email me if you have any questions or concerns. Just make sure you mention your name and that your from shared gov. if you have any questions. Thank you.