Chance to help crowd Saturday?

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10:46a, 12/29/25
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For the "nothing matters just win eat at Arby's" crowd regarding attendance, here's a perfect example of a chance for the athletic department/12th Man to do something.

Saturday's conference opener game only has a few hundred seats or so left for sale. All the lower level tickets are $50+. The cheapest on SeatGeek anywhere in the arena is also about $50. There are some upper level seats for $25+ also through 12th Man.

But that still leaves the entire student section available. We know classes aren't in session yet and that very few students are likely to show up. And on Gameday they'll start selling student tickets to the general public as general admission.

So why wait? Go ahead and announce some kind of new year's special for families. Buy two adult GA tickets and get up to four half price kids tickets or something. Go ahead and give people the chance to make plans and buy those tickets.
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11:05a, 12/29/25
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Makes sense . I wonder if anyone in the Athletic Department reads this board.
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11:28a, 12/29/25
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Yep - definitely need to take action. I'd put tickets on sale for $10, start looking for local orgs that might want to go, etc.

edit to add: FTR, TCU sold GA tix in their student section for $11 during the holiday break... I think this even included the Baylor game which got bought up.
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In reply to bobinator • 12:08p, 12/29/25
bobinator said:
For the "nothing matters just win eat at Arby's" crowd regarding attendance, here's a perfect example of a chance for the athletic department/12th Man to do something.

Saturday's conference opener game only has a few hundred seats or so left for sale. All the lower level tickets are $50+. The cheapest on SeatGeek anywhere in the arena is also about $50. There are some upper level seats for $25+ also through 12th Man.

But that still leaves the entire student section available. We know classes aren't in session yet and that very few students are likely to show up. And on Gameday they'll start selling student tickets to the general public as general admission.

So why wait? Go ahead and announce some kind of new year's special for families. Buy two adult GA tickets and get up to four half price kids tickets or something. Go ahead and give people the chance to make plans and buy those tickets.


Ummm, this idea would be amazing. Down from Wyoming for the holidays and want to take my kids to their first ever Aggie game, but right now for the LSU game it looks like 94$ a pop for 6 tickets on seatgeek. Does anyone know what the attendance will be like, are student tickets likely to go for sale on gameday? How much do they go for typically if we wait until game day?
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12:26p, 12/29/25
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I said it in another thread, marketing for basketball sucks. We should have a full arena every game, no matter what. Make it a fun event for local businesses to take employees, local schools, local teams, etc. Fill the stadium!
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In reply to jeremy • 12:45p, 12/29/25
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I think that's too optimistic but I'm just talking baby steps here. Like tonight is BOGO, great, a Monday night game at 7 against Prairie View. You could give the tickets away and maybe increase attendance by 45 people.

But the demand seems reasonably high for Saturday. First conference game, Saturday day game is easy for out of towners, etc. Let's be just a tiny bit creative.
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1:05p, 12/29/25
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Hopefully Bucky observes we need some help here, and he can lean on the AD going into next season.
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In reply to FBraggie • 1:08p, 12/29/25
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I think last year the day-of GA was like $15-20.
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In reply to bobinator • 3:38p, 12/29/25
Thanks! We will try that!
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5:15p, 12/31/25
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We should sell GA tickets in the student section for ALL games since the students rarely fill it up.

I kid ….. kinda
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In reply to FBraggie • 5:17p, 12/31/25
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FBraggie said:
bobinator said:
For the "nothing matters just win eat at Arby's" crowd regarding attendance, here's a perfect example of a chance for the athletic department/12th Man to do something.

Saturday's conference opener game only has a few hundred seats or so left for sale. All the lower level tickets are $50+. The cheapest on SeatGeek anywhere in the arena is also about $50. There are some upper level seats for $25+ also through 12th Man.

But that still leaves the entire student section available. We know classes aren't in session yet and that very few students are likely to show up. And on Gameday they'll start selling student tickets to the general public as general admission.

So why wait? Go ahead and announce some kind of new year's special for families. Buy two adult GA tickets and get up to four half price kids tickets or something. Go ahead and give people the chance to make plans and buy those tickets.


Ummm, this idea would be amazing. Down from Wyoming for the holidays and want to take my kids to their first ever Aggie game, but right now for the LSU game it looks like 94$ a pop for 6 tickets on seatgeek. Does anyone know what the attendance will be like, are student tickets likely to go for sale on gameday? How much do they go for typically if we wait until game day?


I would guess lots of empty seats, maybe 8-10k total attendance, so there should be sellers at lower prices as we get closer to Saturday. And maybe the school will take this idea and sell some GA tickets, that's a good idea
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3:35p, 1/1/26
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So if I have a family of 5 and we want to go to the game, the best plan is to just show up (at what time) and buy tickets at the window? Never done this before, I always buy them on the secondary market or the ticket forum, but interested....
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In reply to Tailgate88 • 3:54p, 1/1/26
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I think last year the box offices opened a couple of hours before the game but I don't know that for sure
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In reply to Tailgate88 • 6:05p, 1/1/26
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Tailgate88 said:
So if I have a family of 5 and we want to go to the game, the best plan is to just show up (at what time) and buy tickets at the window? Never done this before, I always buy them on the secondary market or the ticket forum, but interested....

Can you not buy GA on the website
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In reply to BQ_90 • 6:08p, 1/1/26
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No. That's my entire point with this thread. They need to go ahead and release some GA tickets
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In reply to bobinator • 7:26p, 1/1/26
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bobinator said:
No. That's my entire point with this thread. They need to go ahead and release some GA tickets

I guess they want you to pay full price along with donation. If I didn't have tickets I'd skip it or see if I can buy cheaper ones here or SeatGeek
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4:56a, 1/2/26
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Good discussion. I'm not sure this adds much clarity but here is an AI summary on university policies for student tickets during the holidays.
https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+college+basketball+policy+on+selling+student+tickets+during+the+christmas+hoiidays+when+students+are+on+break&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari
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5:05a, 1/2/26
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And a Reddit discussion. https://www.reddit.com/r/CollegeBasketball/s/xpiO0fJBs2
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1:25p, 1/2/26
This is the first year that I can remember that the athletic department has not done $5 holiday hoops. I appreciate the fan appreciation event earlier this season, but we always try and make the $5 games when the students are out.

The women's game last night was BOGO tickets. No deal for the men's. Poor marketing at a time that families are looking for things to do.
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In reply to ChampsAg • 2:21p, 1/2/26
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ChampsAg said:
This is the first year that I can remember that the athletic department has not done $5 holiday hoops. I appreciate the fan appreciation event earlier this season, but we always try and make the $5 games when the students are out.

The women's game last night was BOGO tickets. No deal for the men's. Poor marketing at a time that families are looking for things to do.

Actually, when we made plans to attend tomorrow's game I was just assuming they would have the $5 tickets. I was pretty surprised when I went to check for tickets and there are none....
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In reply to ChampsAg • 2:23p, 1/2/26
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They did BOGO for the PV game earlier this week but seems like SOMETHING to try and get a few more people in the door for such an important game would be warranted
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In reply to bobinator • 4:42p, 1/2/26
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They did BOGO for the PV game earlier this week but seems like SOMETHING to try and get a few more people in the door for such an important game would be warranted

I must have missed that! Aw man. They price a family out of going to the games with these prices.
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2:55p, 1/3/26
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Crowd looks exactly as predicted. If they weren't going to release GA tickets they should have moved everyone with upper deck tickets to the student sections.
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3:26p, 1/3/26
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Halftime an announcement should be made that student section seating is available to all first come first serve
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In reply to bobinator • 4:02p, 1/3/26
Students on the endlines, no? I'd take an upper level sidecourt seat over an end lower.
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In reply to Proposition Joe • 4:07p, 1/3/26
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A lot of people would, but my point was we knew a week ago no students were going to be here so they needed to sell some student tickets as GA and market them to families. Instead we basically punted on having anyone in those 4,000 student seats.

Sitting upstairs with kids sucks and tickets up there were like 25 bucks each.

Even a mediocre marketing play for like buy one for $20 and get kids half price in GA announced earlier this week could have at least helped a little.
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In reply to Proposition Joe • 4:08p, 1/3/26
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And if people want to sit up there fine, but make an announcement that anyone can sit in the student sections or something and you'd get more people down low.
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4:23p, 1/3/26
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Going to happen next Saturday as well
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4:36p, 1/3/26
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Five of us in the living room watching right now that would have loved to have been there in person.
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