SB Nation User Blog: Gopher Broke

Student Ticket Online Exchange

Gopher Broke — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:20:35 -0000

The Penn State Athletic Ticket Office has just posted specific guidelines on how to buy, sell or forward single-game student tickets on their Student Central website:

http://www.gopsusports.com/ot/studentcentral.html

More details are here:

http://www.gopsusports.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/080409aao.html

The rules seem fairly sensible currently, for the most part. They say that these rules are subject to change before the online ticket exchange goes into effect on 25 August, but as of now my primary complaint is that to add a 2nd ticket to your ID card (for a non-student friend), you have to go to the BJC ticket office during very specific hours of operation and have them buy the ticket for you. I don't see why they couldn't make it so that if you tried to buy a 2nd ticket for a game online, it'd just charge you an additional $29 automatically for the non-student validation. Purchasing one additional ticket for a non-student is the only way you're allowed more than 1 ticket on your ID card (and the max is 2 tickets on your ID card, so only one non-student friend per ID at maximum).

Anyway, these rules do seem pretty reasonable, and should do a lot to combat the scalping problems of previous years.

Florida State Gators?

Gopher Broke — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:22:21 -0000

Florida State Gators?

Somebody at the AP definitely isn't a sports fan at all (at least I assume it was the AP's fault and not something written by an administration lackey). Just in case the article gets fixed and you're wondering why on earth I posted this, the headline as of this moment reads, "Obama lauds Florida State Gators." The mistake is repeated in the text of the article too. Oops!

Here's a video I took of the end of regulation in the George Mason-Penn State game, including Talor...

Gopher Broke — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 04:11:33 -0000

Here's a video I took of the end of regulation in the George Mason-Penn State game, including Talor Battle's game-tying, buzzer-beating three that sent the game into overtime!!

Stand Up! Be Proud! Be Loud!

Gopher Broke — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:20:44 -0000

C'mon Penn State fans, let's get loud this weekend! Don't let sportswriters for other universities have an excuse to call us the worst fans in the conference anymore! Here's something I found here at the Minneapolis Star Tribune website:

-Penn State men’s basketball or Bruce Springsteen? What’s the bigger draw? It sounds like Penn State’s leveling the playing field with the Boss by bringing in crowds not seen at the Bryce Jordan Center since the Crispin brothers played for the Nittany Lions at the start of the decade.

Out of all the crowds in the Big Ten, I thought Penn State’s, per capita, was by far the worst last season. Sure, Minnesota went to Northwestern last season in the middle of a snow storm. I’m not sure that made much of a difference with Northwestern’s usual sparse attendance, but at least the few fans there pretended to care.

Penn State’s fans were very nonchalant and with their team struggling against Minnesota in the final minutes, numerous fans left and missed one of the best finishes in the Big Ten last year. Maybe, the crowd will get more involved when the Gophers travel to State College, Pa., Saturday.