No more heckling

[Eagle915]

http://www.meangreensports.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/061814aaa.html

Makes me sad. We were good at getting under players skins without using foul language.

[Harry]

Why are they doing this. It would seem they should want to encourage passion around their games not discourage it???

[GreenMachine]

Further wussification of US.

[UNT90]

Against it.

'Murca!!

[greenit]

If the students let 10 measly rows stand in the way of a good heckle, then I don't know what to say. I hope they make those 240 seats the visitor section.

Many enter, few leave.

[MeanGreenTexan]

Why are they doing this. It would seem they should want to encourage passion around their games not discourage it???

Conference rules. Hopefully, we have enough young alumni students who take up the offer.

[UNT90]

Conference rules. Hopefully, we have enough young alumni students who take up the offer.

Apparently not. Did you miss Eddie's posts in the season ticket thread?

[DT 90]

BUT now they can have what the Mean Green usually has behind them in opponents stadiums: drunk, obnoxious alumni. There is a silver lining.

[MeanGreenTexan]

Apparently not. Did you miss Eddie's posts in the season ticket thread?

May need to drop the price. They're used to having these seats occupied for free, so any seat sold (for however much $) is just extra money.

[Moobs]

Super-Freaking-Lame!!! But on the bright side, we will also get the advantage this offers on the road... not that we really need it.

[LongJim]

Translation: UNT is 12-5 since McCarney started kicking ass at Apogee, the student section intimidated most of the teams that played there, "and we don't like it, so we're going to do something about it".

[adman]

240 seats doesn't change a thing.

Id also wager the rule is loosely enforced.

[GRN-WHT]

What's stopping some donor from buying all the seats and giving them to the first 240 people lined up outside?

[adman]

What's stopping some donor from buying all the seats and giving them to the first 240 people lined up outside?

not a thing.

[Christopher Walker]

If the students let 10 measly rows stand in the way of a good heckle, then I don't know what to say. I hope they make those 240 seats the visitor section.

Many enter, few leave.

It's not ten rows, only five. the first five rows out of twenty-three in a section.

So:

240 seats doesn't change a thing.

Id also wager the rule is loosely enforced.

The rule was loosely enforced last year, but then Middle Tennessee and Rice heavily complained to the CUSA front office of the students' participation in our games with them and now you have this.

[LongJim]

In reading the info at the link, it looks like the blacked-out section is affected:

[greenjoe]

This should also mean that at some CUSA road games 50 yard line tickets are available for Mean Green fans.

Beat Texas

GO MEAN GREEN

[BillySee58]

Bully seating?

[Eddie Delgado]

Yep this is what I was talking about. The seat is discounted on the alumni side it's 160. This side is 100 plus free chair backs....that's half price of what the other side is paying.

[JRock]

Stupid. So...I guess now they will soon not allow students to heckle from free throws at Basketball games too? No over-sized heads etc? Ridiculous.

[Eddie Delgado]

The student section @ basketball is not "directly" behind the other team's bench.

[shutter]

Heckling became too much for me to hear from the other side. There is a big difference to cheering very loud than being obnoxious using vulgar language. I do not see the appeal. Get loud but had a bit of class even if you are a student.

[golfingomez]

this is the most unenforcable rule ever..

what's the worst that can happen?

'hey, you! sitting behind the opposing bench... are you a student???'

'.... uhhhh... no?'

'ok, nevermind, enjoy teh game'

[Censored by Laurie]

Bully seating?

This. This is gold. Great work, Billy...even if it went under-appreciated.

[Cerebus]

this is the most unenforcable rule ever..

what's the worst that can happen?

'hey, you! sitting behind the opposing bench... are you a student???'

'.... uhhhh... no?'

'ok, nevermind, enjoy teh game'

The OP Article:

The compromise to which C-USA agreed prohibits student seating from an area between the 35-yard lines and in the first five rows behind the visitors' bench. This will consume approximately 240 seats at Apogee Stadium, which North Texas will designate as reserved seating for purchase by young alumni (those who graduated from North Texas in the past five years). The area will include chair-back seating and will be ushered by stadium staff.

"Do you have a ticket for this section?"

"No."

"These are ticketed seats, you can't sit here, but you can sit over there."