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USU to hold In-Person Classes this Fall
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Re: USU to hold In-Person Classes this Fall
Excellent outlook now for a fall of AGGIE Football. Pleased we have our season tickets.
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My brother is a professor in the business school. He said his classes will be at 25% occupancy, and will be viewable simultaneously online. Based on that, he wonders if football games will have the same rule. If that be the case, who gets to attend? Just season ticket holders? What about the 6000 student seats that they pay for in fees? Do you just hope they will have "HURD" immunity.
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They'll probably have the HURD but a socially distanced HURD. Which would mean more competition for seats with the HURD.boyblue wrote: ↑May 27th, 2020, 4:07 pmMy brother is a professor in the business school. He said his classes will be at 25% occupancy, and will be viewable simultaneously online. Based on that, he wonders if football games will have the same rule. If that be the case, who gets to attend? Just season ticket holders? What about the 6000 student seats that they pay for in fees? Do you just hope they will have "HURD" immunity.
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I have intended to start a thread for some time saying this but I will say this now that it's relevant to an existing thread. One way we could determine which students get to attend out of the limited allotment is distribute tickets. A campout would just create a crowding problem at the campout. Or releasing them Monday morning would create a big logjam Sunday night, but one thing we could do is first make sure all the students who go to the games for the watching the game, as in the actual on the field action, get to go. If 2000 student tickets is what we decide we can do, Maybe first require that for students to get their tickets Monday Morning, they are able to answer a question about the team that would be basic to anyone who puts some emotion into the game. Something like "Who did we beat in 2018 surviving cause of the guy stepping out?" or "Who did we beat on a last second field goal last year?", then if say by Wednesday morning, only 500 students come that are able to answer the question, then release them to the next 1500 that come and just want to go to the game for the social atmosphere. If a student, for instance, is too late in getting the Washington State ticket, and cares enough about not being allowed in TO WATCH THE ACTUAL ON-FIELD ACTION(and not JUST the social atmosphere) He would watch it where he can and be able to answer a question the following week like "Who had the interception against Washington State?" when asked it for the ticket the following week.VegasBornAggie wrote: ↑May 27th, 2020, 4:13 pmThey'll probably have the HURD but a socially distanced HURD. Which would mean more competition for seats with the HURD.boyblue wrote: ↑May 27th, 2020, 4:07 pmMy brother is a professor in the business school. He said his classes will be at 25% occupancy, and will be viewable simultaneously online. Based on that, he wonders if football games will have the same rule. If that be the case, who gets to attend? Just season ticket holders? What about the 6000 student seats that they pay for in fees? Do you just hope they will have "HURD" immunity.
We could also start by, having the student tickets to the game go for $20 Monday, then $15 Tuesday, $10 Wednesday, $5 Thursday, and free Friday. Like Great in the unlikely event we can get 2000 students who care enough to pay $20(and the 2001st student is willing to pay but feels bad), but if they last until the price is $10 or $5, the students who aren't able to get in wouldn't be able to say they didn't have the chance.
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I like your idea but they aren’t going to get rid of student fees for athletics unfortunately. My guess for this year is the HURD Premium is going to be more important if students want to get into games. Just because of that 15 minute early entry will that comes with it.GameFAQSAggie wrote: ↑May 27th, 2020, 5:08 pmI have intended to start a thread for some time saying this but I still say this now that it's relevant to an existing thread. One way we could determine which students get to attend out of the limited allotment is distribute tickets. A campout would just create a crowding problem at the campout. Or releasing them Monday morning would create a big logjam Sunday night, but one thing we could do is first make sure all the students who go to the games for the watching the game, as in the actual on the field action. If 2000 student tickets is what we decide we can do, Maybe first require that for students to get their tickets Monday Morning, they are able to answer a question about the team that would be basic to anyone who puts some emotion into the game. Something like "Who did we beat in 2018 surviving cause of the guy stepping out?" or "Who did we beat on a last second field goal last year?", then if say by Wednesday morning, only 500 students come that are able to answer the question, then release them to the next 1500 that come and just want to go to the game for the social atmosphere. If a student, for instance, is too late in getting the Washington State ticket, and cares enough about not being allowed in TO WATCH THE ACTUAL ON-FIELD ACTION(and not JUST the social atmosphere) He would watch it where he can and be able to answer a question the following week like "Who had the interception against Washington State?" when asked it for the ticket the following week.VegasBornAggie wrote: ↑May 27th, 2020, 4:13 pmThey'll probably have the HURD but a socially distanced HURD. Which would mean more competition for seats with the HURD.boyblue wrote: ↑May 27th, 2020, 4:07 pmMy brother is a professor in the business school. He said his classes will be at 25% occupancy, and will be viewable simultaneously online. Based on that, he wonders if football games will have the same rule. If that be the case, who gets to attend? Just season ticket holders? What about the 6000 student seats that they pay for in fees? Do you just hope they will have "HURD" immunity.
We could also start by, having the student tickets to the game go for $20 Monday, then $15 Tuesday, $10 Wednesday, $5 Thursday, and free Friday. Like Great in the unlikely event we can get 2000 students who care enough to pay $20(and the 2001st student is willing to pay but feels bad), but if they last until the price is $10 or $5, the students who aren't able to get in wouldn't be able to say they didn't have the chance.
The other option is having some sort of lottery or virtual cue where they can wait and try to get into the game.
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We would have to cap Aggie Premium at whatever number of students we decide we are able to let into the games. And Aggie Premium would be in higher demand when it is the only way to assure you get to go to the game. It helps with us not playing BYU in football at home this year, but it would certainly be a problem if these occupancy restrictions are STILL going on by December at the time of the BYU basketball game. Then again, maybe a second wave will make us go back to red and the BYU game will be played in an empty Spectrum, so that would at least make it easier to tell the students NONE of them get to go than have some of them upset that they aren't among the 2000 that do get to go.VegasBornAggie wrote: ↑May 27th, 2020, 8:55 pmI like your idea but they aren’t going to get rid of student fees for athletics unfortunately. My guess for this year is the HURD Premium is going to be more important if students want to get into games. Just because of that 15 minute early entry will that comes with it.GameFAQSAggie wrote: ↑May 27th, 2020, 5:08 pmI have intended to start a thread for some time saying this but I still say this now that it's relevant to an existing thread. One way we could determine which students get to attend out of the limited allotment is distribute tickets. A campout would just create a crowding problem at the campout. Or releasing them Monday morning would create a big logjam Sunday night, but one thing we could do is first make sure all the students who go to the games for the watching the game, as in the actual on the field action. If 2000 student tickets is what we decide we can do, Maybe first require that for students to get their tickets Monday Morning, they are able to answer a question about the team that would be basic to anyone who puts some emotion into the game. Something like "Who did we beat in 2018 surviving cause of the guy stepping out?" or "Who did we beat on a last second field goal last year?", then if say by Wednesday morning, only 500 students come that are able to answer the question, then release them to the next 1500 that come and just want to go to the game for the social atmosphere. If a student, for instance, is too late in getting the Washington State ticket, and cares enough about not being allowed in TO WATCH THE ACTUAL ON-FIELD ACTION(and not JUST the social atmosphere) He would watch it where he can and be able to answer a question the following week like "Who had the interception against Washington State?" when asked it for the ticket the following week.VegasBornAggie wrote: ↑May 27th, 2020, 4:13 pmThey'll probably have the HURD but a socially distanced HURD. Which would mean more competition for seats with the HURD.boyblue wrote: ↑May 27th, 2020, 4:07 pmMy brother is a professor in the business school. He said his classes will be at 25% occupancy, and will be viewable simultaneously online. Based on that, he wonders if football games will have the same rule. If that be the case, who gets to attend? Just season ticket holders? What about the 6000 student seats that they pay for in fees? Do you just hope they will have "HURD" immunity.
We could also start by, having the student tickets to the game go for $20 Monday, then $15 Tuesday, $10 Wednesday, $5 Thursday, and free Friday. Like Great in the unlikely event we can get 2000 students who care enough to pay $20(and the 2001st student is willing to pay but feels bad), but if they last until the price is $10 or $5, the students who aren't able to get in wouldn't be able to say they didn't have the chance.
The other option is having some sort of lottery or virtual cue where they can wait and try to get into the game.
One problem with a lottery is there are some students that will only go if one or more of their friends go. They are anywhere from just demanding they have ONE person to go with, to only wanting to go if ALL FIVE of their suite-mates and ALL SIX boys across the hall go. Or girls that will only want to go if their boyfriend also goes. You would have a lower capacity than permitted with the girls that win the lottery but don't go cause their boyfriend doesn't, or students that don't go cause they are the only one in their suite that wins. One way around that is if such a computer program could filter all the requests, Have students be able to select that A. I want to go if I am chosen at all no matter who else is or B. I only want to go if Aaron Benson also is chosen, or I would want to go if at least 1 of Chelsea Dixon, Eliza Franklin, or Gina Harrison is chosen, or only want to to go if at least 3 or all 5 of Igor Jackson, Kirk Leishman, Mary Nash, Olivia Parker, and Rebecca Simonson are also chosen. Students could list the names of other students who put in for the lottery, and how many of them would have to be chosen for them to want to go.
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One other thing students would consider to be a big deal is Howl attendance may have to be limited this year if the guidelines don't loosen enough by then. One place they could start is having it be for USU students ONLY this year. Or they could REQUIRE masks this year. Go from prohibiting them most years, to requiring them this year, then back to prohibiting them again next year!