student tickets

by boiler_nuke on Jul 27, 2011 4:54 PM EDT

I'm an incoming transfer student and I was wondering how to go about applying for student tickets. I was supposed to get something in the mail about general school info. but I was accepted 2 weeks ago and still nothing. I'm assuming there are a number of members here who either are current students or recent grads and I figured you could help a Boiler out. I'll be on campus Friday (I have a meeting to get signed up for classes) so any info before then would be especially helpful since I still live in Indy for the next couple weeks.

Thanks in advance.

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Purduesports.com

There is a link at the top to buy tickets and if you have your ID number you can buy student ones. I don’t think basketball ones aren’t on sale yet but you can get football or the VIP pass for all sports if they haven’t already sold out.

by BoilerchE on Jul 27, 2011 5:47 PM EDT reply actions

I just read...

VIP Tickets are SOLD OUT…

Boiler Up! Hammer Down!

by JuJuan some Moore? on Jul 28, 2011 6:54 AM EDT up reply actions

VIP Cards are sold out

Official word from the athletic department. You can still get football and basketball season tickets, but the only student section you can be in is the Ross-Ade Brigade. The Paint Crew requires VIP cards.

By the way….welcome to Purdue!

by Jackson Brunner on Jul 27, 2011 6:44 PM EDT reply actions

oh, man, sorry

awful timing. apparently the VIP cards officially sold out today based on when purduesports.com posted their announcement. but yeah, what Jackson said – you can get football by itself and you can try to get basketball tickets but it won’t be student section. you can still join BSA (boilermaker sports alliance) and paint crew though, from what I understand.

what’re you studying here?

To your call once more we rally....

by BoilerPaulie on Jul 27, 2011 9:36 PM EDT reply actions

here's the announcement

link – at the bottom it clarifies student basketball tickets. basically, if some VIP members don’t redeem their vouchers for basketball, then you have a chance to slide in and buy some.

To your call once more we rally....

by BoilerPaulie on Jul 27, 2011 9:39 PM EDT up reply actions

Just an FYI

More than half of the VIP cards aren’t in the student section anyways. The old section of ~1700 seats was less than half of the over 4k VIP cards issued, like mine.

You’ll have to sleep out and wait in line for the real Paint Crew seats, otherwise you’ll be halfway up the upper bowl.

I come from a land down unda

by BoilerRoo on Jul 27, 2011 11:13 PM EDT up reply actions

um, that's still the student section.

the lower bowl is just the general admission portion.

To your call once more we rally....

by BoilerPaulie on Jul 28, 2011 9:46 AM EDT up reply actions

Had the VIP car last season

The Paint Crew seat-getting event happened a week before I got back from Australia, and my friends sucked and didn’t try to get me one. The entire section is GA between those people that waited in line for the 1700 seats that one day and, otherwise when you pick up your season tickets they just give you a seat that was somewhere random throughout the arena. I had plenty of students like that around my spot, but there were also normal season ticket holders around me too.
If you don’t get one of the GA Paint Crew seats on the camp out day, then you can’t sit in them period.

I come from a land down unda

by BoilerRoo on Jul 31, 2011 10:28 AM EDT up reply actions

thanks for the info

the timing is terrible I guess but I don’t know/have a student # yet; I can’t even access my email (although myPurdue works). Doing all this stuff at the last minute sucks, but I didn’t want to wait another semester.

I’m studying Nuclear Engineering, btw.

by boiler_nuke on Jul 27, 2011 11:18 PM EDT reply actions

Non Paint crew tickets

I had them while I was there and they aren’t that bad, your still in mackey (there is no bad seat). Just make sure when tickets go on sale you get in line the night before otherwise you will not be getting basketball tickets.

You should have 0 trouble getting football tickets.

by BoilermakerAustin on Jul 28, 2011 8:01 AM EDT up reply actions

Sorry man

I didn’t get a VIP card my first year, and I ended up going to all but one of the football games thanks to friends not being able to go and I only had to pay for 2 tickets (ND was the one I missed thanks to work, probably could have gotten tickets to that as well). I also got my hands on a few basketball tickets for some of the big games for the 09-10 season, along with Volleyball tickets (those tickets are way more popular though than they were my freshman year).

The only problem is that football tickets (and probably basketball as well) are not longer being printed out for students, instead they are being “electronically delivered” to one’s PUID and then you swipe in like it’s Ford Dining Court. People can transfer their tickets to another student for $3 (I don’t know why they need the $3, probably to help reduce the debt of the Mackey Project).

Hope that helps! Welcome to Purdue!

BTFU, HTFD

by btfu_crespo on Jul 28, 2011 9:32 AM EDT up reply actions

yeah I hear you

welcome to Purdue though! I’m a nuke too – I thought you were from your name but wasn’t 100% sure. I’ll be working on campus on Friday but if you’ve got some time while you’re in town and want to talk about the nuke program or anything let me know – my email is pab@purdue.edu – and I can take a break for a bit.

To your call once more we rally....

by BoilerPaulie on Jul 28, 2011 10:00 AM EDT up reply actions