Faculty Senate Pays for Two Free Tickets

Cerebus · October 5, 2016

Dear faculty and staff,

The UNT Staff Senate and Athletics Department have partnered to provide each UNT faculty and staff member with two free tickets to the Saturday, Oct. 8 football game, to see the Mean Green take on the Marshall University Thundering Herd.

Faculty and staff also can purchase additional tickets at a price of just $5 each.

The free and discounted tickets will be for seats in Sections 110-112 near the North end of the Apogee Stadium field. When those sections reach capacity, additional seating will be in sections 115-116.

To claim your free tickets and to purchase additional tickets at the discounted rate, call the North Texas Ticket Office at 940-565-2527 to have your tickets emailed to you or visit the office located at Gate 2 at Apogee Stadium. Or, you can pick up your free tickets on the Library Mall from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 4-6. Tickets must be picked up or purchased by 5 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 6.

The free and discounted tickets are part of what Staff Senate and Athletics hope will become an annual tradition – a special Staff and Faculty Appreciation Game.

The UNT division with the highest percentage of registrants at the game will receive the Staff Spirit Trophy, which will be an annual traveling trophy provided by the Staff Senate and the winner will be announced at the Staff Sack Lunch on Oct. 11. The winning division also will receive 20 seats in an Apogee Stadium suite for the last Mean Green home game on Nov. 19. The vice president over the winning division will draw names from within the winning division to determine which 20 employees will attend that game and sit in the suite.

In addition to the free and discounted tickets, staff and faculty are invited to join tailgating activities starting at 3 p.m. outside the Alumni Pavilion at Apogee Stadium. Staff Senate will host a tent with tables and chairs and Scrappy will be on hand for photo opportunities with staff, faculty and their family members.

The Alumni Pavilion opens its doors at 4 p.m. with face painting and snow cones. The Alumni Association is providing a free drink ticket to each faculty and staff member for a free drink of their choice inside the Alumni Pavilion.

Parking is provided at Fouts Field for $10. Faculty and staff can walk over the bridge to the Alumni Pavilion where they will find the Staff Senate tent.

As they enter Apogee Stadium before the game, register by swiping your UNT ID card at the Staff Fun Zone inside the north end of the stadium. The first 1,000 employees to register will receive a free T-shirt.

MEANGREENCOACH2 · October 5, 2016

LOVE IT

golfingomez · October 5, 2016

now we just need them to go pick up those tickets!

KRAM1 · October 5, 2016

Nice! Lots of support these days from the highest levels of administrative and academic personnel. BRAVO!

Edited October 5, 2016 by KRAM1

Wag Tag · October 5, 2016

1 hour ago, Cerebus said:

Dear faculty and staff,

The UNT Staff Senate and Athletics Department have partnered to provide each UNT faculty and staff member with two free tickets to the Saturday, Oct. 8 football game, to see the Mean Green take on the Marshall University Thundering Herd.

Faculty and staff also can purchase additional tickets at a price of just $5 each.

The free and discounted tickets will be for seats in Sections 110-112 near the North end of the Apogee Stadium field. When those sections reach capacity, additional seating will be in sections 115-116.

To claim your free tickets and to purchase additional tickets at the discounted rate, call the North Texas Ticket Office at 940-565-2527 to have your tickets emailed to you or visit the office located at Gate 2 at Apogee Stadium. Or, you can pick up your free tickets on the Library Mall from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 4-6. Tickets must be picked up or purchased by 5 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 6.

The free and discounted tickets are part of what Staff Senate and Athletics hope will become an annual tradition – a special Staff and Faculty Appreciation Game.

The UNT division with the highest percentage of registrants at the game will receive the Staff Spirit Trophy, which will be an annual traveling trophy provided by the Staff Senate and the winner will be announced at the Staff Sack Lunch on Oct. 11. The winning division also will receive 20 seats in an Apogee Stadium suite for the last Mean Green home game on Nov. 19. The vice president over the winning division will draw names from within the winning division to determine which 20 employees will attend that game and sit in the suite.

In addition to the free and discounted tickets, staff and faculty are invited to join tailgating activities starting at 3 p.m. outside the Alumni Pavilion at Apogee Stadium. Staff Senate will host a tent with tables and chairs and Scrappy will be on hand for photo opportunities with staff, faculty and their family members.

The Alumni Pavilion opens its doors at 4 p.m. with face painting and snow cones. The Alumni Association is providing a free drink ticket to each faculty and staff member for a free drink of their choice inside the Alumni Pavilion.

Parking is provided at Fouts Field for $10. Faculty and staff can walk over the bridge to the Alumni Pavilion where they will find the Staff Senate tent.

As they enter Apogee Stadium before the game, register by swiping your UNT ID card at the Staff Fun Zone inside the north end of the stadium. The first 1,000 employees to register will receive a free T-shirt.

An empty seat is a wasted opportunity! Very nice! GMG

PlummMeanGreen · October 6, 2016

6 hours ago, Wag Tag said:

An empty seat is a wasted opportunity! Very nice! GMG

Russ Potts, ex SMU AD several decades ago:

"An empty seat cannot buy a hot dog, Coca Cola or a souvenir T-shirt with the school logo on it."

mgfan · October 6, 2016

I Like It! Lets go a step further,free parking for staff at Fouts!

PlummMeanGreen · October 6, 2016

14 hours ago, mgfan said:

I Like It! Lets go a step further,free parking for staff at Fouts!

Off the subject a bit, but would a train or tram cars like they used to use at 6 Flags to pick up customers who parked a ways from the front entrance gate be able to turn that final dog leg corner on the I-35 walkway? It should. That is a wide bridge.

Edited October 6, 2016 by PlummMeanGreen

THOR · October 6, 2016

No reason for motorized vehicles on the walkway...

PlummMeanGreen · October 6, 2016

14 hours ago, THOR said:

No reason for motorized vehicles on the walkway...

It's wide enough, but your probably right.

Yet if having a 6 Flag'esque tram-train caused a thousand or more of the 70 plus seniors group to come to Apogee every game it might be worth running a survey to see. Some out there do not or cannot walk from campus parking lots to our football palace.

GMG!

Edited October 6, 2016 by PlummMeanGreen

UNTFan23 · October 6, 2016

5 minutes ago, PlummMeanGreen said:

It's wide enough, but your probably right.

Yet if having a 6 Flag'esque tram-train caused a thousand or more of the 70 plus seniors group to come to Apogee every game it might be worth running a survey to see. Some out there do not or cannot walk from campus parking lots to our football palace. (I may be one of them sooner than I'd like)! LOL!

GMG!

The 180-degree turn on the Apogee side of the bridge prevents a "tram-train" style vehicle from being able to use the bridge. The 90- and 180-degree turns prevent long wheel based vehicles from being able to navigate the bridge.

There is nothing to prevent buses from using existing roadways to move people to and from Apogee. I think what it might ultimately come down to is cost of using such services.

greenjoe · October 6, 2016

I walked across the pedestrian bridge Saturday with my dogs before the game and there were plenty of golf cart like vehicles zooming back and forth across the bridge.

Fortunately it's not a problem for me yet but when I see a 6 or 8 passenger golf cart driving by with no passengers I wonder why the driver (an Athletic Department employee I guess) doesn't offer fans a ride. For as far as the driver is going.

Beat Marshall

GO MEAN GREEN

Edited October 6, 2016 by greenjoe

hickoryhouse · October 6, 2016

What a great step by the AD. I don't remember there being much if any outreach to the Academic faculty under the old regime. I like the idea, it gets the university involved with the university, the way that it should be and the way that it is at so many large institutions. Pride in the school comes from all over and if the faculty have pride in the school and the teams then that will rub off on the students.

Cerebus · October 7, 2016

21 hours ago, hickoryhouse said:

What a great step by the AD. I don't remember there being much if any outreach to the Academic faculty under the old regime.

I'll try and find out who started this. It would not surprise me if it was a staff member (maybe even a faculty member) and not the AD. There are some real die hards who work at the university, there just isn't enough of them... just like the alumni base.

KRAM1 · October 7, 2016

Met a College of Arts and Sciences prof yesterday at an Oktoberfest event who said he bought eight tickets through this program and was excited to see it. He needs eight tickets per game and at regular pricing was a bit much when parking and concessions were added to the mix. He said he was excited to be able to go and take his family and extended family as well.

By the way...he is a UTgrad (undergrad) and prefers to attend the UNT game.

Censored by Laurie · October 7, 2016

On 10/6/2016 at 0:02 PM, PlummMeanGreen said:

It's wide enough, but your probably right.

Yet if having a 6 Flag'esque tram-train caused a thousand or more of the 70 plus seniors group to come to Apogee every game it might be worth running a survey to see. Some out there do not or cannot walk from campus parking lots to our football palace.

GMG!

what an atmosphere that would create!

the deafening sound of a thousand "shhh"s, "sit down"s and "are you sure you should be having another beer, son"s reverberating throughout Apogee.

Tyler Maryak · October 7, 2016

My beloved Eagle Ambassadors provide tram rides. When I was among them, we would pick up from Fouts and make a treacherous journey past the beer barn fields and onto Bonnie Brae. Not sure if that's still the route used, but I imagine those trams are still running.