With demand for student tickets once again outweighing supply, the Athletics Department will again be allotting extra tickets for Thursday night’s football game against Florida State.
Senior Associate Athletics Director Chris Kingston said the only game in recent memory with more ticket requests was the Virginia Tech game three weeks ago.
For the VT game, the University made 1,600 extra tickets available after the original allotment of 9,250 left many students empty-handed. For Thursday’s game, because all the originally allotted tickets were requested, 2,000 tickets are available Wednesday at 4:30 p.m. at Reynold’s Coliseum to students whose ticket requests were denied. To make room for additional students against the Hokies and again this week against Florida State, the Athletics Department was forced to utilize temporary bleachers and forego sales of a combined total of more than $250,000 in potential sales of tickets for seats outside the student sections.
Starting after the Wake Forest game Nov. 6, the student ticketing system for future football and basketball seasons will be evaluated, revised and possibly revamped by a committee Kingston will chair. This committee will consist largely of students, up to 10, Kingston said, and will also include a few members of the administration.
Kingston said he is unsure exactly who will be on the committee, but knows it will consist primarily of students. His role within the group will be facilitator. The membership of the group will not be determined until mid-November, but Kingston said he will seek the advice of Student Body President Kelly Hook, Student Senate President Stephen Kouba and Jeffrey Johnson, SG’s chair of the Commission on Athletics.
With input from these student leaders, Kingston will form a committee he hopes most fairly represents the entire student body. While he has not yet determined any particular members, he said he aims to represent as many different students as possible.