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By: chris christofield

chris christofield — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:44:49 +0000

Build it and they(we) will come.

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:17:30 +0000

Back in the mid/late 70′s (early Rupp years), tickets were 1st come, 1st serve — rabid fans were where they needed to be!! Same occurred with Memorial Coliseum on game day/night. Lottery approach didn’t arrive until after I left — thank the Lord.

Students who sell their tickets for any more than what they paid should be banned, if they are caught. They are gaming the system and not helping the real fans.

Please Mitch, bring back the days when the most deserving students (those who spent their time in line) got the best tickets!! And please spare me the studying on a Saturday night / Sunday morning argument….

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[...] Too many fans, not enough tickets: Students spend hundreds to attend UK basketball games By Jordan Hall Thousands of UK students will line up along the sidewalks of Memorial Coliseum on Monday night in hopes of lucking into some blue gold — UK basketball tickets for the Southeastern Conference games ahead. Because of the dramatic increase of attendants at this year’s lottery compared to last year’s, more students have been leaving Memorial [...] Read more on The Kentucky Kernel [...]

By: iowacat

iowacat — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:31:19 +0000

I graduated from UK in 1996 and back when I was student the lotteries were on Sunday mornings at 7:00 am. This process was a good combination of being fair, but also allowing the true fans to get tickets as it was tough to be at Memorial that early on a Sunday morning. Several thousand students always showed up, even on cold snowy mornings.

UK was rocking my senior year on its way the national title in 1996, but even with the high demand, the students who attended the lottery always got tickets and there were always some tickets in the upper arena left the next day at tickets office for the students who couldn’t make the lottery, but were early in line. I don’t know why UK went away from this model.

By: Don

Don — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:52:56 +0000

“Social work sophomore Laura Kosik sees the lottery as an opportunity to cover her grocery bill for the month. She sells her student tickets on Facebook Marketplace”
LOL, Isn’t this illegal? And since you have published her name shouldn’t she have her lottery privileges revolvked?

By: Ronald D. Weddle, MD

Ronald D. Weddle, MD — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:33:24 +0000

First come, first served is the way it should be. The true fans (like myself many years ago) will find a way to be there. And the first served should get the best seats.

By: Justin

Justin — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:45:14 +0000

Where were these fans last year? Last season’s lottery attendance was a joke compared to this season. I am a huge Kentucky fan, but I criticize a majority of the student body for being typical “bandwagon” fans. The students that attended every lottery last season are losing tickets to these so-called “fans.” Loyalty needs to play a role in student ticket distribution.

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