Guess what, Keith? The rest of the stadium has just as many, if not more empty seats at kickoff but they aren’t concentrated into as small of an area as in our student section. Deal with it. - 1987 Alum

dude, shut up. the students have been doing this for years, and an 11am kickoff means there just isnt that much time to party. maybe they should schedule more afternoon games.

I showed up an hour early for the game and there was no line whatsoever to get into Camp Randall. I sat in the sixth row of P one week and the fourth row the next.

But it must be too hard to ask most of the drunken underage students to get to a game on time. The vast majority of the students sitting close to the field are sober, passionate, and appear to be more of legal age than the late to come, early to leave crowd.

Hi Keith—

I agree with you, students should get to the game on time, or forefit their ticket. But this time, it seems there was a major problem in actually letting in the students that caused a major logjam, and a lot of students who showed up early to the game actually were kept in line for a long time, missing much of the 1st quarter.

So yes, students need to move their lazy butts to the stadium, but this time I believe the error needs to be chalked up to a crappy admittance system.

Wasn’t entirely our fault, the new seating single file system locked many of us out who were there at least 30 minutes before kickoff.

The only way this would ever happen is if the athletic department starts scanning IDs and games and giving season ticket priority to those that show up on time.

I, along with hundreds of others at least, was at the game on time, but was stuck in a mob outside my gate on account of the new wristband system until the middle of the first quarter. Write an article on that.

Count me in for exchanging tickets with anyone unable to get to games on time.

it wasnt the students fault. probably half the student section was in the corridors cramped waiting for this gay wristband thing to work…

it wasnt the students fault. probably half the student section was in the corridors cramped waiting for this gay wristband thing to work…

Dear Mr. Glaser: Before you go assuming that we didn’t fill the student section before half time because we want to drink, please do some research. The reason the student section wasn’t full was because (if you didn’t notice) the athletic dept was filling the sections one at a time. I got to Camp Randall at 10:45 but had to wait outside my section for almost 20 minutes before I was any where near getting into my section.

Don’t blame the student section. I arrived 25 minutes before kickoff and the new system of per mar and police seating every student individually in a seat resulted in my waiting in a giant mob of students and missing kickoff. How full is the rest of the stadium 25 minutes before kickoff? I can’t get seated for nearly a half hour? This one isn’t on the students, UW screwed up.

To all the UW alums complaining about the student section not arriving to the game on time - try leaving your seats 15 min prior to kickoff and walking to the restroom or concessions underneath section P and you just might possibly run into the 5000+ students waiting to enter the stands but being forced into a single gate, one at a time by police officers from surrouding communities, only to then be lined up like criminals once inside the stands and instructed to “shoulder up, only 18 inches”… What is sad is that we can STAND and cheer the ENTIRE game once the ATHLETIC DEPT lets us into the game. Thanks for your support alums.

I will not spend too much effort to defend the student section as our track record is poor at best. However, at the Marshall game there only two sections were open at kickoff. There were a large number of students waiting for others to open outside the gate because there is no reason to have to sit in row 60 in section O or P when there are empty seats in rows 20 and below in the 5 other sections. Once the next two sections opened (N and M) about 5 minutes after kickoff a large number of students that had been just waiting outside the gate then finally entered the stadium, and got good seats in the next sections over as a “reward” for missing kickoff. A similar situaton I heard happened before the opening of sections L and K. Students do need to make a large improvement on arriving in a timely manner, but the athletic department needs to throw us a bone. I witnessed first hand that many of us are willing to miss 5-10 minutes of the game to sit where we want so try to open up more than two sections before kickoff. And as was the case last week those 5-10 minutes can make a big difference when there is a goalline stand and there are 3 completely empty sections.

I will not spend too much effort to defend the student section as our track record is poor at best. However, at the Marshall game there only two sections were open at kickoff. There were a large number of students waiting for others to open outside the gate because there is no reason to have to sit in row 60 in section O or P when there are empty seats in rows 20 and below in the 5 other sections. Once the next two sections opened (N and M) about 5 minutes after kickoff a large number of students that had been just waiting outside the gate then finally entered the stadium, and got good seats in the next sections over as a “reward” for missing kickoff. A similar situaton I heard happened before the opening of sections L and K. Students do need to make a large improvement on arriving in a timely manner, but the athletic department needs to throw us a bone. I witnessed first hand that many of us are willing to miss 5-10 minutes of the game to sit where we want so try to open up more than two sections before kickoff. And as was the case last week those 5-10 minutes can make a big difference when there is a goalline stand and there are 3 completely empty sections.

I will not spend too much effort to defend the student section as our track record is poor at best. However, at the Marshall game there only two sections were open at kickoff. There were a large number of students waiting for others to open outside the gate because there is no reason to have to sit in row 60 in section O or P when there are empty seats in rows 20 and below in the 5 other sections. Once the next two sections opened (N and M) about 5 minutes after kickoff a large number of students that had been just waiting outside the gate then finally entered the stadium, and got good seats in the next sections over as a “reward” for missing kickoff. A similar situation I heard happened before the opening of sections L and K. Students do need to make a large improvement on arriving in a timely manner, but the athletic department needs to throw us a bone. I witnessed first hand that many of us are willing to miss 5-10 minutes of the game to sit where we want so try to open up more than two sections before kickoff. And as was the case last week those 5-10 minutes can make a big difference when there is a goal line stand and there are 3 completely empty sections.

Before you blame students for tardiness at the game, maybe you should take a walk over to the student section tunnels where hundreds of students, who were there on time, were being held for 15-20 by ushers. I arrived ten minutes early to the game, completely sober, and somehow still missed the first five minutes of the game. Next time maybe you should get the story from every side before jumping to the students as an easy scapegoat.

Dear Mr. Glaser: Before you write an article such as this one, you must get all the facts! What you don’t know is that all the students were being held up inside the stadium before the game. There was a new system put into place, which implied that the security and ushers would individually place each student into a seat. There were hundreds of students still waiting to be seated by kickoff, and that was only in my section.

I was in that position myself. I arrived nearly 30 minutes before kickoff and I walked into my seat during the kickoff! There were still hundreds of students behind me! The students are furious with this new system, and Badger alumni need to know that there is no lack of support from the student section! So before you accuse the students of lacking support, you should be sure to understand the situation.

Before you blame students for tardiness at the game, maybe you should take a walk over to the student section tunnels where hundreds of students, who were there on time, were being held for 15-20 minutes by ushers. I arrived ten minutes early to the game, completely sober, and somehow still missed the first five minutes of the game. Next time maybe you should get the story from every side before jumping to the students as an easy scapegoat.

After getting a few e-mails and seeing the comments above, I understand that there was some hold up to get into the stadium due to this wristband business. However, it’s not like this hasn’t been a problem in the past.

And to the first comment that the rest of the stadium isn’t full…it is. I was at the Akron game and the rest of the stadium was 90% full or so at kickoff.

Hopefully they fix this problem and everyone that wants to be at the game can be. Enjoy the rest of the season.

Keith

I was to the game on time as well, yet didn’t make it into my seat until nearly the end of the 1st quarter. I wish alumni and other fans would look over and see the congestion and how one section is being filled at a time. We don’t like it, you don’t like it, so e-mail the athletic department and say something instead of scolding us. Sure, our students usually are a little late (especially for boring games like the last two,) but there is no reason that we should feel the wrath for something we have no control over. Just imagine what the congestion will be like once there are actual good games- OSU and PSU night games, homecoming, Minnesota axe game, etc. The halls will be full and the bleachers will be empty while they alumni are scratching their heads thinking the current students don’t care enough to show up on time.

I was to the game on time as well, yet didn’t make it into my seat until nearly the end of the 1st quarter. I wish alumni and other fans would look over and see the congestion and how one section is being filled at a time. We don’t like it, you don’t like it, so e-mail the athletic department and say something instead of scolding us. Sure, our students usually are a little late (especially for boring games like the last two,) but there is no reason that we should feel the wrath for something we have no control over. Just imagine what the congestion will be like once there are actual good games- OSU and PSU night games, homecoming, Minnesota axe game, etc. The halls will be full and the bleachers will be empty while they alumni are scratching their heads thinking the current students don’t care enough to show up on time.

I hope everyone emails this guy. If he is bold enough to make an unjustified and incorrect comment to some 40000 students and give his email, he should be ready to recieve 40000 angry emails.

I hope everyone emails this guy. If he is bold enough to make an unjustified and incorrect comment to some 40000 students and give his email, he should be ready to recieve 40000 angry emails.

Honestly, if this guy has the balls to put his email on a request which is completely incorrect, I hope he receives 40000 nasty emails, which overflows his box, causes his computer to blow up and then he loses all his data. That is what he deserves for making this outrageous comment.

Dear students,

Get off my lawn!

Signed, Old Dude