[82lsju]

My concerns with occasional re-seating center around the social aspect of keeping your seats and the uncertainty of using an engagement level.

I agree

We have a group of 12 who have sat together for a long time (the core group since 1982) as season ticket holders and the social aspects of game day are more important to some of our group than the games.  During the Walt/Buddy years we had people who kept their tickets but seldom went in, they often stayed out at the tailgater all game. 

We went through the "engagement level" vs sitting together question when we moved into the new stadium and decided to sit together.  We have a wide range of "engagement levels" with the University and our group got the "engagement level" of the least engaged member (we have 4 actual season ticket buyers for the 12 seats).  We initially had seats in the upper bowl.  We moved to the lower bowl when the team switched sidelines and they moved the students out of 134 and we asked to be moved in and were granted our request.

At the end of the day we would again choose sitting together over splitting up as I'm certain that some of the group would not pay a required donation even if it was deductible. 

While we're currently on the sunny side with no seat premium I had previously thought they would come after at least sections 134 (our current location) and 132 with a required donation starting with the 2019 season, and that if they did I expected we'd get moved to worse seats, given the changes we'll see if this change happens in 2019.....

[82lsju]

My concerns with occasional re-seating center around the social aspect of keeping your seats and the uncertainty of using an engagement level.

I agree

We have a group of 12 who have sat together for a long time (the core group since 1982) as season ticket holders and the social aspects of game day are more important to some of our group than the games.  During the Walt/Buddy years we had people who kept their tickets but seldom went in, they often stayed out at the tailgater all game. 

We went through the "engagement level" vs sitting together question when we moved into the new stadium and decided to sit together.  We have a wide range of "engagement levels" with the University and our group got the "engagement level" of the least engaged member (we have 4 actual season ticket buyers for the 12 seats).  We initially had seats in the upper bowl.  We moved to the lower bowl when the team switched sidelines and they moved the students out of 134 and we asked to be moved in and were granted our request.

At the end of the day we would again choose sitting together over splitting up as I'm certain that some of the group would not pay a required donation even if it was deductible. 

While we're currently on the sunny side with no seat premium I had previously thought they would come after at least sections 134 (our current location) and 132 with a required donation starting with the 2019 season, and that if they did I expected we'd get moved to worse seats, given the changes we'll see if this change happens in 2019.....