I love Oklahoma State University athletics. Sitting in the stands surrounded by fellow students cheering on our teams is one of the best parts about being an OSU student. This year OSU changed student ticketing, and made it easier to attend sporting events.
Last year, students bought an All-Sports Pass that served as a ticket to home football games and all other sporting events, excluding men’s basketball. Priced at $150, it was a good deal.
There was one downfall: to attend major home games like the Texas game and homecoming, All-Sports Pass holders had to validate their seats. Everyone (except freshmen and transfer students, of course) remembers the hassles of ticket validation.
I unfortunately also remember the frustration of kicking people out of my seat even after I had validated. This year, we are saying goodbye validating and the All-Sports Pass.
Instead, students will purchase football tickets for the seven home games for $150, and men’s basketball tickets for a price yet to be determined by the athletic department. All tickets are general admission, and the athletic department is only selling as many tickets as there are reserved student seats in Boone Pickens’ Stadium.
No more validation.
What about the other sporting events? I have good news.
Women’s basketball and all other sporting events are free to students with a valid OSU I.D.
Financially-conscious students will notice that this new ticketing system isn’t actually making tickets any cheaper. However, if you compare OSU’s prices to prices of student tickets from other Big 12 schools, you will find that OSU’s students pay about the same as students from other schools. For instance, Kansas State students have an incredibly complicated ticketing system that allows them to choose from several ticket packages. The most expensive seats are $173, and student reserved seats and general admission seats are $143. Iowa State’s All-Sports Ticket is $198. OU students pay $155 for season football tickets. The numbers don’t lie; OSU is right on track with the rest of the Big 12.
While I was looking up ticket prices, I noticed that OSU seems to have the simplest ticket purchasing system. All we have to do is buy tickets. I didn’t read too much into it, and what I did read would bore you, because I yawned a few times, especially on OU’s long-winded, downloadable information page. Next time I feel a warm southern breeze, I know it’s coming from the Sooners.
Why are you still reading this? Go buy your tickets.
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Student Tickets for football games are $1.00 each at Arkansas. Thats right $1.00 each. You pay for the full season at one time and you are set, this year i paid $6.00 for 6 home games. All loaded on your student ID and you are scanned at the gate for admission. It has been that way for years and will continue to be that way for years to come thanks to Sam Walton. Come on “Boone” do something for all students, not just the athletes.
Are Arkansas tickets even worth $6 this year?
Aaron,
What was that Troy State score last year?
Jamey,
What does it matter?
Troy (not Troy State) was an away game last year, so it’s bearing on a season ticket purchase for OSU fans is moot.
Additionally, any OSU game played has no bearing on the question I posed. My question was not a comparison of OSU and Arkansas athletics, it was simply a question regarding the state of Arkansas football this year.
But to answer your non sequiter, we lost on the road 23-41.
come one AAron really want to go there OSU has had some seasons that were much less than steller in the not so distant past. Ark tickets have been a dollar each for students for the last 10+ years. Just a shame to see all that Boone money go so much to athletics and not to all students.
I guess they don’t teach reading comprehension at Arkansas because as of yet, you have not answered my initial question.
Are Arkansas football tickets this year worth $1? I would say a 1 point win over ULM (not even in Fayetteville mind you) is not worth a $1 or even my time to see.
Once again, this is not a question regarding the past state of OSU athletics. That’s a completely different debate.