Football season tickets have sold out, but not all students are sold on the new policy for redeeming them.
The MSU Athletics Department announced Saturday that sales of both public and student season ticket packages have been suspended after exceeding 60,000 for just the fourth time in school history.
More than 12,000 student packages have been sold, up almost 1,500 from last season.
But many students are still looking for answers to the new ticket policy that was announced late last month.
Under the new system, tickets will be attached to student IDs, replacing printed vouchers. The switch will save the ticket office $20,000 to $30,000 per year in printing costs and will streamline the gate policy, said Mark Hollis, MSU's senior associate athletics director.
ASMSU Student Assembly Chairperson Andrew Schepers said ASMSU has been receiving a steady flow of complaints from students about the policy.
The most common complaint is that students won't be able to resell tickets they can't use, he said.
"Some people want to go to games, but don't want to go to all of them," he said. "Their concerns are genuine."
Schepers said ASMSU has been in contact with the athletics department and is finalizing recommendations to be made to the university.
Dusty Kwiecien, an advertising senior, purchased season tickets this year for the fourth time, but said he's not a fan of the new ticket policy.
"From the students' perspective, I don't see any positives to it," he said.
Kwiecien said his biggest concern is that Spartan Stadium will be partially empty because students who can't attend a game will choose not to sell their ticket to someone else out of reluctance to loan out their IDs.
"With less fans there, it'll take away from the experience," he said.
Accounting freshman Nick Fallico said he's concerned that he won't be able to accommodate non-student visitors who want to attend a game.
"If I've got friends coming up, how can I get them a ticket?" Fallico said.
Student tickets can be purchased for individual games, but they're subject to availability.
Single-game student tickets cost $30, which is cheaper than the public rate of $46 per single-game ticket, but more than the $18 average per ticket price of the season package. Single-game tickets are not available for the Michigan game on Oct. 1.
Schepers said he's confident that the athletics department will be open to student suggestions on how to fine-tune the policy.
"I think they recognize that they went to one extreme really quick," Schepers said. "I think they're willing to sit down, take our input and see if there's something they can do to change it if it needs to be changed."
