Need a parking pass, will pay 10 bucks for helping me out (and not a fake copy because as of the GW game, they are cracking down on that)

9/25/2009 1:29:56 PM

..finally

9/25/2009 2:58:10 PM

THE ROCK, has come BACK, to give me a student ticket to the game tomorrow


Please??

9/25/2009 3:17:28 PM

Atleast one student ticket just popped up as available just now on the student ticket site. I dunno if there are anymore.

9/25/2009 3:18:29 PM

Need one student ticket

9/25/2009 8:26:15 PM

need one student ticket

will get in early to get all the loyalty points etc etc

holla

9/25/2009 9:55:16 PM

Have 1 student ticket for today. 1st person to PM me gets it.

9/26/2009 9:11:38 AM

i have an available student ticket. 1st person to PM me that can meet me at the game in time to get bonus points gets it. i'll probably be heading out soon though, so PM quick.

9/26/2009 1:30:19 PM

so what was the deal today

they didn't scan tickets

9/26/2009 9:46:14 PM

Yeah, I have no idea how they'll know who actually showed up.

9/26/2009 9:47:22 PM

They are giving everyone who won a ticket the points. This is per Event One staff.

9/26/2009 9:49:32 PM

lol that's a big fuck you to those that didnt win a ticket

but i guess they did have an opportunity to reserve one

9/26/2009 9:54:09 PM

everyone lost a point.

9/27/2009 8:56:50 PM

what did they do about standby line yesterday?

9/27/2009 11:07:58 PM

what's a standby line

9/27/2009 11:12:17 PM

will everyone get one point or 2

9/28/2009 12:37:05 AM

Probably just 1

9/28/2009 7:41:17 AM

I have one student ticket for the duke game

I prefer someone who would go early

PM me if you want it, of course its free

10/4/2009 12:26:11 PM

if it werent for this thread i would probably forget to claim/reserve a ticket every game

10/4/2009 12:33:28 PM

instead of saying "claim ticket" it said "reserve ticket" and i got one right away...did they screw up and put the on-demand period at the same time as the lottery claim? (my roomate's said "claim ticket" so i know it wasn't like that for everyone)

10/4/2009 10:32:18 PM

This came in the email from Jim Ceresnak today

Student Ticketing Questions Answered - A letter from Associate Athletic Director, Dick Christy
==========================================================================

ISSUES ADDRESSED IN THIS LETTER
I. Student leadership
II. Email notifications
III. South Carolina game ticket distribution and group seating
IV. Loyalty point distribution
V. Wristbands and inclement weather policy at the Pitt game
VI. Section 14/15 block-off at the Pitt game
VII. Parking problems
VIX. Student ticket website problems

Dear Wolfpack Students and Fans,

In an attempt to clarify some of the misconceptions about our student ticket policies and operations, I offer the details below. Some are in response to the Campus Forum article from 9/28 and other points are follow-up from other student queries. While this may not provide answers for all your questions, I do encourage students to get in touch with Athletics and Student Government directly when you have a concern, question, or just need help with your account. I'll try to keep this as brief as possible and appreciate your time. On behalf of NC State Athletics, thank you for the tremendous support you have shown our programs this year.

I. Student Leadership:

In the past 2 years, the NC State student body has been blessed with tremendous leadership. Proactive, energetic, caring students who have not pushed their own agenda but rather genuinely attempted to get feedback from their peers in determining the issues they should tackle. Jay Dawkins & Jim Ceresnak are not alone in this praise. Students like Jeffrey Johnson, Kelli Rogers, Marycobb Randall, Matt Garcia and many others have ensured that student concerns are placed at the forefront. It is no small coincidence that in the past 2 years, the student ticket policies and procedures have had significant improvements that have benefitted all students and given you more control over your ability to attend games. Jay Dawkins' administration initiated the seniority/loyalty point system, improved gate wait times, & stand-bye efforts; followed by Jim's administration who have championed the early admittance point, the cumulative loyalty reward program, group seating reform, incentives for Pep Rallys, enhanced camp-out activites, and more.

All that being said, admittedly, with any change comes growing pains. And there have surely been some of those with student tickets over the past 5 years. I will touch on recent items below but want to stress that most of the concerns that are voiced are miscommunication not mishap. Regardless of the issue, don't blame fellow students who are motivated for your benefit; blame me, blame Athletics, blame the software vendor; but don't demotivate those who are most interested in seeing you receive better services.

Here are a few questions that have come our way and the responses that go along with them.

II. Not receiving email notifications about ticket claim periods:

We have received report after report from the software vendor showing the emails are being sent, but the feedback from our students has been too compelling not to address this. Athletics is working with campus email services to see where the problem may be in filtering these emails out. Keep in mind that the distribution schedule is posted on the website, available 24 hours a day, and that the emails are independent of the distribution phases so in other words you can just go into your account at the designated time and don't need to click on a link in the email to access or claim your ticket.

III. South Carolina game concerns about ticket assignments & groups:

13,000 students requested tickets for approx. 8,000 seats. No matter how they are distributed there is going to be a large contingent of students who are frustrated that they were not awarded a seat. That being said, the speculation that was received by the Athletics Department was that Large Groups won all the tickets, or the large group total was increased to 99, or seniors were not given priority for the game as they should have been because freshman piggy-backed seniors in groups.

Here are a few facts...

- Large groups received 40% of the tickets available, just as the policy reads that was established by students over 4 years ago.

- The Large group cap is 99 tickets, just as the policy reads that was established by students over 4 years ago.

- The system that was developed by students, was never intended to be a seniority based system, it is a hybrid of seniority & loyalty. Being the first game of the year, I can see how this can be misconceived since seniors, by default, have the most points. A few interesting stats from the South Carolina data (seniors won the highest % of tickets, freshman requested significantly more tickets than the soph & junior classes, their total only eclipsed by seniors). Hopefully you can start to see how this can add to the perception that upperclassmen were not given the priority they felt they deserved.

IV. Point distribution:

Since South Carolina, we have had over 500 students consistently taking advantage of the early admission bonus loyalty point. What this change has done for all students is further improved wait times at the gates. Processing time has consistently been under 3 minutes for all games this year and students are filling their sections earlier than we have seen in the past. THANK YOU

V. Wristbands/inclement weather policy at Pitt game:

Part of our established operations plan is to go to an inclement weather policy in the event of a high probability of rain. This is to avoid issues with the scanners and bar coded tickets being wet or mutilated. When this policy is in effect, we issue wristbands that correspond to a section (don't bother trying to remember your color because they change every game , and all students requesting tickets to that game receive 1 point. We wait as long as humanly possible to make the decision on inclement weather and, as a result, can't notify students that the early admission point won't be available for that game.

VI. Section 14/15 cut off to patrons at the Pitt game:

This is a problem & it is going to take student help to fix it. There is no way around it, we need to do better. To the parents and students affected by this at the game we sincerely apologize. Fire safety shut down sections 14/15 aisle-ways as students began to congregate in the aisle and not progress into the seating area. Once the aisle is blocked, public safety is going to do due diligence and halt passage into this area until the traffic dissipates. (After our issues from a few years back, before the hand stamp/wristband policy, you can see how law enforcement is going to be sensitive to this issue). In actuality, there were hundreds of open seats in this section and it took approximately 20 minutes to rectify this problem and allow unimpeded access to the section again. THE SOLUTION: Students are coming early to games and in greater numbers, this is outstanding news. When everyone arrives at once it is imperative that students already seated... move in, identify available seats for fellow students, and be courteous as others attempt to enter the section. Those just arriving need to enter an available row and not linger in the aisle while waiting for friends, it is only hurting your fellow students.

VII. Not enough spaces in the Student parking lot:

As many of you are probably aware, students were counterfeiting parking passes to get more vehicles into the lot. After the Murray State game, Fedex Kinkos, UPS Stores, & local copiers were notified of the issue and shown our parking pass designs for the remainder of the year. They have agreed to avoid allowing reproduction of these passes in their stores. Also, students having passes found to be counterfeit will be trespassed by campus police and face student conduct repercussions. Over 30 passes were confiscated for the Pittsburgh game.

VIX. Student Ticket Site Unavailable:

Periodically through the past 4 weeks there have been times when the student ticket site was temporarily unavailable and a maintenance page was visible when you tried to enter your account. Our server was due for an upgrade and unfortunately that coincided with 4 consecutive home games. In an effort to minimize the effects we had many of the diagnostics spread out over different times so that a full claim, request, or on-demand phase was not affected.

As I said before, some of these issues have occurred on large scales and some to only a few patrons, but they are separate issues. Most of which are a product of the growing pains experienced during transitions and changes. Changes for the better mind you. The best advice I can give is to stay in contact with your student government representatives, pass issues or feedback on to our athletics staff quickly, and stay posted to new information and policies on the student ticket website. Thanks again for your support.


Sincerely,

Dick

Dick Christy - Associate Athletic Director - NC State Athletics

At least somebody is listening.

10/5/2009 3:02:10 PM

http://raleigh.craigslist.org/tix/1408382425.html
http://raleigh.craigslist.org/tix/1408360047.html
http://raleigh.craigslist.org/tix/1407776565.html
ready, set, go

[Edited on October 6, 2009 at 8:54 AM. Reason : .]

10/6/2009 8:42:00 AM

Thanks for the post. We have contacted and gotten in touch with 1 of those 3. Thanks Wolfpackers!

10/7/2009 4:59:57 PM

If someone is still planning on getting a ticket through on demand please just take mine instead. I guess it's too late to cancel because the website won't let me do it. I'm not going to make it to the game and I don't want to be penalized. Just take mine please!!!!

Free btw!!

[Edited on October 7, 2009 at 10:07 PM. Reason : ]

10/7/2009 10:07:16 PM

Quote :

"2 Student Tickets to NC State vs. Duke Tickets have priority and are lower level seats $30/each "

Lolz...I've never heard of "high priority" general admission seats that are certain to be lower level

10/8/2009 12:22:27 AM

may be student wolfpack club tickets

10/8/2009 7:24:06 AM

i need a student ticket so message me and I guarantee it will be scanned on time

10/8/2009 8:46:42 AM

i need a student ticket so message me and I guarantee it will be scanned on time

10/8/2009 8:54:29 AM

I have an extra student ticket for Duke. PM me

10/8/2009 6:32:17 PM

need 1 student ticket

10/8/2009 7:29:11 PM

I have an extra student ticket. PM me for it.

10/8/2009 7:35:45 PM

My ticket is gone

10/8/2009 9:41:34 PM

That whole getting through the gate issue could be solved if they would let the students go through any gate they want just like the rest of us. They can keep the points system, but they should still put scanners at every gate.

10/8/2009 9:54:14 PM

I have two student tickets.

First PM gets one/both.

Parking pass included.

[Edited on October 10, 2009 at 11:35 AM. Reason : .]

10/10/2009 11:33:12 AM

one extra student ticket here, PM me

10/10/2009 11:36:12 AM

mine are gone

10/10/2009 12:36:01 PM

ticket gone

10/10/2009 1:44:54 PM

lulz

10/10/2009 8:06:29 PM

they sent me an email saying that i have a ticket but then i get this message when I try to claim it

Quote :

"Ticket Allotment exceeded. There are no more tickets available."

This happened to anyone else?

11/9/2009 6:00:14 PM

^Same thing happened with me

11/9/2009 6:17:05 PM

did you ever get it to work?

11/9/2009 6:21:01 PM

is this for the basketball or football game?

11/9/2009 6:33:01 PM

I have a group of like 6 or 7 that were all awarded tickets but we can't claim any of them...

11/9/2009 6:35:03 PM

FWIW I tried to get a basketball ticket for GA State and it said they were out of tickets (which is obviously wrong) so maybe there is something wrong with the site

11/9/2009 6:35:46 PM

football

11/9/2009 7:45:29 PM

Need a Ga State ticket for tonight... either the site is messed up or they're all gone

11/12/2009 12:12:37 PM

hmm, do they normally not do the group thing for the carolina game?

11/20/2009 1:36:14 AM

Anyone know if they're selling guest tickets for this unc game?

11/20/2009 9:19:55 AM

^Yes max is 1

11/20/2009 9:39:58 AM

you know NCSU is having a bad year when guest tickets are available for UNC

11/20/2009 10:13:44 AM