[Farm93]

Here's an example of what often happens on the kid voucher days - I have two season tickets in sideline premium areas and two kids that qualify for vouchers.  In past years Mrs. Lefty and I would enter the stadium using our season tix and then sit with the kids in general admission.  This creates both a "hole" in the premium areas and packs general admission.

I bet this sort of promotion will be phased out as the stadium fills up.

When the MBB team was good, the family plan went away.  My guess is a similar event could happen to Stanford Stadium.  I definitely suspect that the kid freebie thing will go away if seats are sold in the corner endzone seats (the most common place for GA overflows to try to occupy).

Not only does the freebie/season ticket marriage create holes in the season ticket area, it also creates an overload in the GA area.

That was part of the reason I decided against trying to get my family up the I-5 with me for the game.  I could tell that we were going to have a GA problem with season ticket holders moving, and did not want to contribute to the problem or deal with that hassle.

I have thought there are many solutions to this problem.

Solution #1 - I sat in an area with 4 unoccupied seats on my right, three empty seats in front of me, and my unused second season ticket on my right.  I could have confidently been able to "invite" 8 GA people to my area if that was acceptable.  If any ticket holder came along we could have found a way to make it work.  It would have been nice for the ushers to try to find if there were "holes" that might be used last night.  Most season ticket holders generally know which ticket neighbors are not going to attend the SJSU game and/or would be in their seats at kickoff if they were coming to the game.

Solution #2 - I definitely understand the 2 adults going to GA to be with their family, but then those season ticket holders should be asked to volunteer their 2 season tickets to GA couples willing to move to those seats.  I have thought about doing that myself, but it is hard to ask people if they are an unattached couple (not with a larger group) without making it odd and potentially inappropriate.  But the AD could have a table up by the arches, and then it would be kind of fun.  You turn in your season tickets, you get a GA ticket and then more flexible GA holders can go to that table to look for possible upgrades.  It would be a little confusing, but better than crazy overflow problems.

Those GA problems have existed before for the SJSU game.  In the past, we have never really sold those corner endzone seats on the west side by the GA and/or above the students, so there was space for more adventurous people to just find a solution on their own.

Oh well, as you noted we probably won't be doing this Freebie thing as long as SJSU is off the schedule and Stanford Football ticket sales are strong.

[Farm93]

Here's an example of what often happens on the kid voucher days - I have two season tickets in sideline premium areas and two kids that qualify for vouchers.  In past years Mrs. Lefty and I would enter the stadium using our season tix and then sit with the kids in general admission.  This creates both a "hole" in the premium areas and packs general admission.

I bet this sort of promotion will be phased out as the stadium fills up.

When the MBB team was good, the family plan went away.  My guess is a similar event could happen to Stanford Stadium.  I definitely suspect that the kid freebie thing will go away if seats are sold in the corner endzone seats (the most common place for GA overflows to try to occupy).

Not only does the freebie/season ticket marriage create holes in the season ticket area, it also creates an overload in the GA area.

That was part of the reason I decided against trying to get my family up the I-5 with me for the game.  I could tell that we were going to have a GA problem with season ticket holders moving, and did not want to contribute to the problem or deal with that hassle.

I have thought there are many solutions to this problem.

Solution #1 - I sat in an area with 4 unoccupied seats on my right, three empty seats in front of me, and my unused second season ticket on my right.  I could have confidently been able to "invite" 8 GA people to my area if that was acceptable.  If any ticket holder came along we could have found a way to make it work.  It would have been nice for the ushers to try to find if there were "holes" that might be used last night.  Most season ticket holders generally know which ticket neighbors are not going to attend the SJSU game and/or would be in their seats at kickoff if they were coming to the game.

Solution #2 - I definitely understand the 2 adults going to GA to be with their family, but then those season ticket holders should be asked to volunteer their 2 season tickets to GA couples willing to move to those seats.  I have thought about doing that myself, but it is hard to ask people if they are an unattached couple (not with a larger group) without making it odd and potentially inappropriate.  But the AD could have a table up by the arches, and then it would be kind of fun.  You turn in your season tickets, you get a GA ticket and then more flexible GA holders can go to that table to look for possible upgrades.  It would be a little confusing, but better than crazy overflow problems.

Those GA problems have existed before for the SJSU game.  In the past, we have never really sold those corner endzone seats on the west side by the GA and/or above the students, so there was space for more adventurous people to just find a solution on their own.

Oh well, as you noted we probably won't be doing this Freebie thing as long as SJSU is off the schedule and Stanford Football ticket sales are strong.