Loyal football fans get short end of stick
Starting this semester, Student Life decided to scrap the week-by-week, loyalty point-based ticketing system of TicketReturn for the seasonal ticketing system, Ticketmaster.
When it comes to student football tickets, not everyone is going to get the ticket that they want. The job of USC is to control discontent with the best possible system that awards tickets in a fair way.
With the old system, if you got an upper deck ticket or none at all, you were not doomed to that fate for the entire season. You could try again the next week. For the new system, the opposite is true. Not to mention no one has any real experience with the new system. Apparently, there is a way to drop tickets or request lower deck, but nobody knows how to do any of these things.
I am a junior who has not missed a single home game in two seasons, and believed myself to be secure in the way of football tickets because of my stockpile of loyalty points. However, I learned that I was not the only other upperclassmen who found himself in the upper deck for the noon home opener against East Carolina, and that there are freshman guaranteed lower deck seats for the season.
Student Life needs to get a handle on the situation in the coming years. More information should be provided to the student body in order to make the transition smoother. Right now, the only thing that students have received from the new system is an email in their junk folder giving them either good, bad, or ugly news of where they'll be sitting this season.