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HokieinATL07

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I haven't been to a game in a long time but...


...from the various reports, sounds like the subcontractor that staffs the games is either short staffed due to labor shortages, not willing to hire more people due to $$$ reasons, the university management isn't stepping in to better manage their hired sub- (someone's hand getting greased with some of the $$ not being spent on staffing games maybe?? wouldn't surprise me).

So drunk, gregarious students, turning to an unruly mob on the way in because of bad crowd management, and then the GA tickets, overbooking, at what at least used to be a big time football school - it seems guaranteed to have problems.

More gates, more staff, more access options - being able to move people through better and prevent the people jams, as well as swifter reaction to remove bad actors combined with consequences (get kicked out, no more games for you this season), to me that would be the ticket.

My sense based on the others here I hang with - their home stadiums haven't had the extents of the same problem Virginia Tech has had at any game, nor has it been as consistent. These are UGA, 'Bama, etc. guys. Big time, big boy CFB stadiums. That's why it's making headline news - it's worse than in other places. In a lot of ways, the administration to Virginia Tech these days has it's head buried in the sand to the problems in the athletic department. I wonder, based on the articles recently about how "being a nice guy" is valued so much - is Whit or others not raising issues stronger so they don't seem like they're stepping out of the nice guy mentality?

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Posted: 10/15/2021 at 10:26AM



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  VT Created this problem with their open ticketing policy -- brownsummithokie 10/15/2021 11:37AM
  Bingo. ** -- UberHOKIE 10/15/2021 1:30PM
  I haven't been to a game in a long time but... -- HokieinATL07 10/15/2021 10:26AM
  It’s Aramark - cheap and crap -- 3TechFanz 10/15/2021 1:54PM
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  De fund the po po had consequences ** -- fordham 10/15/2021 12:19PM
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  It's a line problem. ** -- Lane2020 10/15/2021 09:32AM
  The Cameron crazies are pathetic amateurs -- Hokie1992 10/15/2021 12:28PM
  Let’s blame it on CJF -- ombandit 10/15/2021 11:31AM
  Look kids, you made Fox News -- Hokie1992 10/15/2021 06:44AM
  Just read the article. VT is running the risk of -- GCHokieof91 10/14/2021 10:47PM
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  You are correct. I’m all for personal responsibility. -- GCHokieof91 10/14/2021 11:02PM
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  It would make zero sense to overbook -- Hokie1992 10/15/2021 06:42AM

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