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I attended the Washington game this Saturday.  I enjoyed the first half and then left the stadium at halftime to catch up with friends at a tailgate.  I headed back to the game at the end of the third quarter.  When I arrived at the stadium, the security guards told me I could not enter.  I asked why and they said there is no entry after the third quarter.  I was already at the ticket scanner inside the security gate.  All they needed to do was scan my ticket and let me go in.  But they refused, kicked me outside the security gate and then promptly locked the gate.

As I left, I saw that all the other external gates were also being locked.  So this does not appear to be a rogue security guard.  It seems to be Stanford policy.  Given that there were 30,000 or so empty seats in the stadium, it strikes me as odd to deny entry to paying customers after the third quarter.  Shouldn't Stanford be doing everything possible to encourage attendance rather than discourage it?

Does anybody know why this policy is in place?  Was there an incident I don't know about?  I can't figure out why Stanford would do this.

Sounds like Stanford is no longer interested in doing business with us old farts with cheap phones that don't do proximity scans. This will affect even younger people that don't feel like being mugged for a pricey phone.

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I attended the Washington game this Saturday.  I enjoyed the first half and then left the stadium at halftime to catch up with friends at a tailgate.  I headed back to the game at the end of the third quarter.  When I arrived at the stadium, the security guards told me I could not enter.  I asked why and they said there is no entry after the third quarter.  I was already at the ticket scanner inside the security gate.  All they needed to do was scan my ticket and let me go in.  But they refused, kicked me outside the security gate and then promptly locked the gate.

As I left, I saw that all the other external gates were also being locked.  So this does not appear to be a rogue security guard.  It seems to be Stanford policy.  Given that there were 30,000 or so empty seats in the stadium, it strikes me as odd to deny entry to paying customers after the third quarter.  Shouldn't Stanford be doing everything possible to encourage attendance rather than discourage it?

Does anybody know why this policy is in place?  Was there an incident I don't know about?  I can't figure out why Stanford would do this.

Sounds like Stanford is no longer interested in doing business with us old farts with cheap phones that don't do proximity scans. This will affect even younger people that don't feel like being mugged for a pricey phone.