Virginia Tech has announced that unused student section seats will be made available to students on a first-come, first-served basis for the next three Virginia Tech men’s basketball home games, hosting virginia, richmond, and the newly minted giant killers from boston college (I’m still celebrating that fantastic upset in Chapel Hill).
In a related move, a program to enable electronic transfers by public season ticket holders for all games throughout the season has been announced. “Hokie Share” will reportedly allow ticket holders to transfer tickets to the recipient of their choosing. This sounds like a brilliant, much-needed solution to the empty seats often seen in out-of-conference games in Cassell — but there’s a tragic catch: each ticket transfer will incur a $4 fee.
So if you want to give a couple tickets to the Boy’s and Girl’s Club you’ll just have to dig out your tickets, log in, figure out how to use Hokie Share, and then pony up $8 to give away your tickets. I looked at it for a few minutes, in two different browsers, and I can’t figure out how it works. So, hooray for ticket transfers, and boo for the fee and the confusing website.
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The Hokie Share web site is not confusing… it only costs $4 to transfer two tickets (it does not cost $4 per ticket)… the fee can be paid by the season ticket holder or the receipient, **but the transaction must be initiated by the season ticket holder.** If you are not a season ticket holder, you can only use Hokie Share if the tickets are transferred to you by a season ticketholder.
I’ve transfered four pairs of my season tickets (to the weekday games that I cannot attend, with the exception of the UNC game) to students in the Center for Public Administration and Policy (CPAP) at http://www.cpap.vt.edu, the place whereI got my graduate degree. I want to give back to CPAP because it game a lot to me.
I’d like to see the athletic department issue a much different policy… if season ticketholders cannot be there, their seats should be released to students… game time decision from the athletic director. There is no team we can’t beat when the Cassell is packed with students.
Also, the athletic department should sell packages of tickets… weekend games should cost more than weekday games… the goal should be to fill the seats.
By the way, there are several VT/UVA basketball tickets for face value or below on Ebay today.