The Svengali
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If you are paying an athletics fee, then your tickets aren't free by definition. Schools are basically selling tickets to revenue sports to students at cost(via a athletics fee), but packaging all sports into the fee. Private schools(IE Stanford, Miami, Duke, etc.) usually have enough seats available to where merely paying the fee will get you a seat, provided you show up. I remember having to fight UMiami on this topic, because I invested in Basketball & Football season tickets throughout undergrad. grad and law school(Still have the seats to this very day, despite living on the other side of the country), and them insisting that I continue to pay the fee. I told them that I refused to pay for something that I was NEVER going to use, and every year, they would cave and take the fee off of my invoice(Yes, I had to have the same fight with them year after year, you'd think someone would have made a **** note in my file)
Larger state schools don't even do that at this point. Schools like Arizona and others still charge their students for season tickets(IE a student booster club) along with having them pay the athletics fee. In order to have a chance at student tickets, you have to pay the athletics fee AND win a lottery to purchase season tickets at some schools. Here are some examples.
Membership — ZonaZoo
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Student Football Ticket Information - Alabama Athletics
Who is eligible to purchase a full season ticket package? Returning students (enrolled for the spring semester) are eligible for a full or parti...rolltide.com
Michigan Announces 2020-21 Student Season Ticket Pricing - University of Michigan Athletics
The University of Michigan Athletic Department announced Monday (Feb. 10) the season ticket information and pricing for enrolled students during the 2020-21 ...mgoblue.com
Thanks for clarifying. I’ve attended private schools throughout my university career and so have my siblings, neices and nephews, so I assumed all universities applied the athletic the same way private schools do (e.g., you won’t have to purchase tickets to athletic events outside of that per semester fee)
The State schools have a big set of balls to get away with doing that. I cannot believe patents and students aren’t push back on paying that athletic fee if they’re also making kids purchase tickets to events