Sanford Sports Ground student presence exceeds available rubber bracelets, features section

Though the Fitness Organization has granted enough chairs to cover increased presence at house soccer activities this period, learners are still incapable to discover chairs within the school student area.

Average school student presence for each house soccer activity is up by more than 2,000 learners, according to documents obtained by The Red & Dark.

The The state of tennessee and Florida Ocean house competitions this period attracted more than 14,000 learners, while the Vanderbilt activity had 4,316 more learners than it did in 2010.

Meanwhile, Zoysia attracted more than 13,000 learners.

But though the University allots 17,910 passes for learners, more than half of freshmen have stated that they were incapable to get a chair within the school student area.

Fifty-one % of participants stated that they were incapable to discover a chair in the school student area, according to a study of 100 freshmen performed by The Red & Dark.

Ryan Scates, the school student representative to the Fitness Organization Board, said the University dropped the variety of chairs in the school student area from 18,026, and they would consider further reducing the variety.

"Even at its highest capacity since moving to examined passes, our school student area has had over 3,300 chairs that went rarely used," Scates said.

If there are 3,300 chairs not being used, then learners should not have difficulty finding chairs. The trouble seems to center around the bracelet program.

Upon entering a lower-level school student area, learners are given a bracelet after showing their school student ID. However, rubber bracelets are not quick and easy. The program can be circumvented because school student IDs can easily be distributed to non-students, as reported in a previous article by the Red & Dark.

However, there may be more to the problem.

Matt Brachowski, the assistant athletic director for event control, is in charge of ordering the bracelets.

“We use the complete sitting allowance that are in [the 100-level school student sections],” Brachowski said. “Whatever the count of chairs is the count of bracelets that will be provided.”

Of the 17,910 chairs for learners in the ground, 6,253 are supposed to be in the 300 stage, Ticket Functions Manager Wendy Whittington said. This leaves 11,657 chairs in the 100-level segments.

However, the events control department only gives 11,200 bracelets for those segments, Brachowski said.

“We have available 6,700 bracelets for the school student sitting in Sections 109-114 [and] 4,500 bracelets for the school student sitting in Sections 138-143,” Brachowski said.

There are 457 chairs between the two segments that do not have essential bracelets.

This correlates with the 33 % of freshmen who were incapable to get rubber bracelets at one or more joined activities, according to the study performed by The Red & Dark.