Student Ticket for Thursday vs Zona

[upstate redman]

To comment on this, I am not a student, but as a diehard SJU fan it also irks me. Granted, I am young enough to sit in the student section, and while I would not do that because I am not a student and never attended SJU (friends give me crap as I went for the pastures of NYC for grad school over SJU), I would wear red and be on my feet the whole game in that section. It bothers me when my Cuse fan friends etc say things about their student section and ours. I want so badly for the whole sections behind both hoops to just be a sea of red with students going nuts at the Garden. As a non student fan in my mid 20s, I truly appreciate the students like Jhansboro (I think I have figured out who you are from watching and going to games) who care.

My two cents 1) As I was a student at Cuse last year, I bought season tickets on my student id card, and every game you swipe your card and get a bracelet (always a different color) and they check. You could never get into the student section their if you weren't a student without season tickets. Granted they have enough kids to do it. But for games where they dont fill it up, if you use your student ID with a non season ticket ID card then they give you the bracelet (makes sense). 2) At my college, I went to a small d3 school with just d1 hockey, you had to show your student id to get into the student section and it was first come first serve the night of the game. System worked great. And to iterate all of your points, my first 2 years NOONE came to a game because we were terrible but I love hockey and went to every home game in empty student sections. By my junior year we were good (now were actually a national power) and the student section was mobbed, I once didn't get into a game at like 6:30 against our rival my senior year and I was fuming so I know about fairweather fans.

I will be there tomorrow in 112, very excited to go, and I will be at mostly every Garden game this year. 

 

They do that at Carnesecca with the ID's and season tickets but it's impossible to do at MSG because the MSG ushers are in control, not STJ personnel.

 

Ya definitely tough at MSG, but I am sure there could be a way. I know they set up the cheerleaders in the lobby before games, could have a table like someone suggested. I haven't been to Carnesecca in years unfortunately so I wouldn't know. This is the first time I have lived in this area since high school.

Jhansboro, I have thought about at times buying the tix I see on stubhub in the student section since I know I am an intense young fan, so I always figure if someone is buying them off of it why not me? However, they are always way too overpriced for me. I usually come with home friends that also root for the Johnies, so thats not an issue with my crew. It just bothers me as a fan, and college bball enthusiast that the student section isn't synonymous with students.