Spring Break
Stadium officials urge students to come early for seats
Mike Graham
Issue date: 10/29/08 Section: College Gameday
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With anticipation building around Saturday's game including a visit from the popular pre-game television show, ESPN's College GameDay, visiting Tech this weekend, a large crowd is expected to attend the game. Tickets to the game are sold out.
In 2006, the last time Tech hosted Texas, the Jones AT&T Stadium attendance record was broken with 56,158 fans spectating a Texas 35-31 victory.
Jarod Huddleston, the director of ticket operations in the Tech athletics office, said the student entrance gates will open at 5 p.m. Saturday for the first 11,600 Tech students.
Huddleston recommends students queue up in the line to enter the student gates around 4 p.m. Saturday.
To get into the student section, students will need their Tech ID, Huddleston said. Students will have their IDs swiped by event staff to be granted access into the student section. The student section takes up all the seating behind the south end zone and runs along the visiting team's sideline in the lower section of the stadium to about the south 40 yard line. The green Double T area behind the north end zone will serve as student section overflow.
"We're really encouraging students who have had trouble with their I.D.s to get a new one before the game," he said. "All I.D.s will be checked and scanned before a student is allowed admission into the stadium. No one without a (Tech) student I.D. will be allowed to enter through the student gates."
Dolores Harper, the director of University I.D. Card program, said the I.D. office is beginning to see an increase in students visiting their office for new I.D. cards and expects to see more students as the week moves on.
There are two major problems students could face with their card's magnetic strip, she said, that could potentially keep their cards from successfully swiping and, consequently, having their access to the game denied.
"You'll have problems if your card is scratched or if it has any type of bend," she said. "But the biggest problem we see for students are the scratches."
A $52 Student Athletic Fee allows Tech students into any varsity home athletic event, according to the Department of Institutional Research and Information Management. Officials can verify that a student has paid the fee by swiping a student's Tech I.D. card.
Harper said there is no way for students in doubt to know whether they have paid the fee without visiting the I.D. office in the Student Union Building.
"They have to contact us and we can tell them if they had paid the fee or not," she said.
Huddleston said only the first 11,600 students will be allowed into the game before the gates close and no students outside the 11,600 will be allowed into the stadium without a ticket, but added the student gates have never closed on students before.
Huddleston also debunked a rumor that has been circulating that those who are camping out by the student gates in "Raiderville" will get tickets or vouchers to ensure the campers get seats prior to the gates opening.
"They'll just be at the front of the line when the gates open," he said. "They'll have to run and grab a seat just like everyone else."
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ANON
posted 10/28/08 @ 8:42 PM CST
A large crowd is expected to attend the game...really? That's some good investigative reporting right there... idiot. The game is sold out, what does that tell you?
Justin
posted 10/28/08 @ 9:36 PM CST
Hopefully there won't be a repeat of aTm last year where there were two lines
Bill
posted 10/28/08 @ 10:02 PM CST
Will they try to arrest 11,600 this time when they run out on the field when we win? Lighten up dudes.
Ain't no way you gonna keep them off the field. (Continued…)
Jody
posted 10/28/08 @ 10:56 PM CST
"Huddleston recommends students queue up in the line to enter the student gates around 4 p.m. Saturday"? Are you kidding me? Students will be lined up halfway around the stadium by then!
techsan20
posted 10/29/08 @ 7:47 AM CST
"Will they try to arrest 11,600 this time when they run out on the field when we win? Lighten up dudes."
Act like we've been here before and are a fan of the #5 team in the country. (Continued…)
Mark B
posted 10/29/08 @ 8:43 AM CST
We have never before in the entire history of Texas Tech beaten a #1 team, so I think the students have enough reasons to rush the field if we win. This is one of the biggest games in Texas Tech history. (Continued…)
Dorothy
posted 10/29/08 @ 9:48 AM CST
I am a Red Raider through and through but live down here in the Austin area. Jones Stadium should be allowed to be filled by the time the players are doing their warm-ups on the field. (Continued…)
Christi Watkins
posted 10/29/08 @ 5:06 PM CST
I'm really shocked that they aren't opening the gates until 5, especially since they opened the gates 4 hours prior to Nebraska.
Terry
posted 11/02/08 @ 11:18 PM CST
You whipper snappers should stay,off the field , it gives Tech a bad image on National tv. I almost cried, when you devils flowed out, on to the field . (Continued…)
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