Camping out for tickets used to be a blast.

Comments from the students....and my retorts:

"The system does not cater to the way that these college students decide to attend football games"

- - Welcome to life. It doesn't cater to you or your neo-generational millennials.

"Students will face conflicts and scheduling issues throughout the academic year"

- - Funny, my two older sisters and multiple friends ALL camped out for tickets. You punks wine about paying or being penalized for not showing up. Get over it. There are THOUSANDS that would buy those tickets and gladly attend the games. The student athletes we cheer for - not the general student population.

"Further, I feel modern students are more introverted and less likely to try to acquire a ticket at the game"

- - sounds like a personal problem - what are they going to do when it comes time to finding a job and interacting with society? Never mind - I don't care.

"Putting 50% of student tickets up "for sale" in season-long packages removes Clemsons "Right" to say they go to the games for free.

- - #1; free tickets are not a "right" snowflake. And so what - the rest of us pay literally THOUSANDS of dollars to attend. We also pay for your student athletes through IPTAY. You guys do nada. You show up late, half drunk and leave before the game is over. You collectively flushed your own opportunity to continue that tradition of free seats by your refusal to show up or stay.

"I do hope that you will take these thoughts into consideration. I want Clemson Football to be successful, and I want the stadium to be packed"

- - so do we - hence the reason this became YOUR problem. Clemson is already successful and it had little to nothing to do with you - or any non-student-athlete currently enrolled.

THE REST OF THIS IS NOTHING BUT WHINY GARBAGE.

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Jul 12, 2018, 8:44 PM

If I remember correctly, I had the option to pre-PAY for football tickets at the start of the Fall semester (or not). Then, the week of the game, we had to go to a desk located outside under the raised walkway in front of the library to claim our first come first serve ticket(s). I took turns with the person with whom I attended the games showing up about 6am at that desk. These tickets were always between the goal line and the 10 yard line, and I felt good about it. We were loud and proud, there were no gaps in the seating, and the volume wasn't just standing up ONLY to dance/sing to some freakin' rap song, only to sit right down again when play resumed. Our songs were along the line of Eye of the Tiger, not "bullet for everyone on the room." The ACC even started an excessive crowd noise rule while I was there. Ask senior MD QB Boomer Esiason how loud we were. After Boomer bitched about crowd noise until we got an excessive noise warning, the head cheer leader got everybody to be ultra quiet on the next play with ALL of us going SSSHHHHHHHHH in unison. It was so freaky that Boomer (future NFL QB) brutally overthrew the 3rd down pass to the end zone. I guess me and the person that I attended games with had it easy because we were only taking MECHANICAL FREAKIN' ENGINEERING! We always dispositioned our tickets if we couldn't make it, which was RARE. I missed ONE game the three seasons that I was there, and that was because of an attempted date with a flaky female. As far as the socio-economic differences, I paid for my college by working 1 to 2 jobs every summer, acquiring student LOANS, and working part time during the school year.

All that being said...SHUT UP you bunch of present day student cry babies! Use a calendar (you already know when the freakin' games are), don't procrastinate, take care of your business ahead of time, and come out and have fun pulling for our beloved Tigers!