Season tickets... am I dreaming?

Tide Pride is one way but you need a shit ton of points. The points are determined by the amounts donated. In other words, if your tight on money, you’d have better odds winnin the lottery.

is like 30,000 people. Each year they replace those who do not renew with those in that line. If you are young enough you might get your named called in 30 years or so.

And, I think it is true that if you make big contributions you jump up in the line. Now, you don’t have to make big contributions to get in Tide Pride but you will wait your turn.

So basically you are asking the impossible. I mean it isn’t even on a lottery system so there is no luck involved. It is just when you sign up. And don’t worry they will contact you, no need in you checking with them, although if your address changes you might want to notify them.

If you just want to go for 1 year you can try the stub hub approach and probably get an entire season for a couple of grand, although any year we play AU that price will go up some. Craig’s list may be cheaper but it has some risk that Stub Hub does not have.

Good luck. Our Tide Pride seats have been in our family since the beginning of the program and they are coveted like gold. A few years ago you were allowed to do a 1 time switch of your Tide Pride seats to a child or grandchild. Our family switched them and put them in the name of the youngest grandchild figuring that would allow our family to keep the tickets for another 75 years. We are did it the legal way, but there are folks that die and don’t tell the University and keep ordering tickets in a dead persons name. Obviously with this kind of thing your odds go up even more.

Seriously your best bet is out in front of the stadium 20 minutes before kick-off. If I did not have a ticket that is exactly what I would do. $200 will get you in about any game exception being something like LSU this year.

I went the waiting route for tickets several years ago. My son was ten and a huge fan of Alabama football. I have always been a fan and have enjoyed many games through the years. But have always picked up tickets on line or in front of BDS. I had to wait 7 years before I got tickets. So my my wife and I are enjoying going to the games and we visit with our son who is a student at Alabama and goes to the games with his student ticket. The letter that notified us of our tickets told us that there were sixteen thousand people on the waiting list. That was two years ago, I figure the waiting list is longer now than it was then.

but I do get Tide Pride emails all the time. So they know who I am at least.

…keep my name on the waiting list, but as others have said, don’t expect to hear from the University for years. In the meantime, look at it this way. If you bought two season tickets in the lowest priced section of BDS right now, you would spend about $1,400. So while you’re waiting to hear from UA, you can use that figure to buy yourself tickets to the games you most want to see.

I agree with the people here who say you can find seats cheapest by waiting until close to kickoff to make your purchase. The great thing about doing this in Tuscaloosa is that you don’t have to worry about counterfeiters because licensed ticket sellers have to wear proper identification to sell.

Whatever the case, you need to get yourself to BDS this year. You’ll be glad you did. Roll Tide.