By Lindsey Stimpson
Today marks the first day BYU students can purchase 2004 – 2005 All-Sport Passes.
For $85, students receive rotating season tickets to all home football games, admission to all other Division I regular season home games and – pending negotiations – deals and discounts from on and off-campus venues.
Coordinators at the promotion and marketing departments of BYU Athletics said they are working on discount deals with on and off-campus venues for All-Sport Pass carriers and hope to have the details worked out by the time students pick up their passes in August.
“We”re working on a deal with SAS, the Bookstore and off-campus venues,” said Todd Sleight, coordinator of promotions at BYU. “We want to offer the option to our on-campus partners first because that”s where students spend most of their money. We haven”t worked out the specifics, but there might be a discount at the Bookstore or at Legends Grill.”
The marketing department is also coordinating with the BYU Bookstore to give All-Sport Pass carriers a deal on “the shirt” – a T-shirt students are encouraged to wear to all home athletic events.
“With the pass, it [”the shirt”] would be $5 instead of $15,” Sleight said.
Passes must be purchased online. The BYU ticket office said phone and mail orders will not work because confirmation receipts will only be sent to e-mail accounts and must be presented when picking up football tickets.
Full and part-time BYU students, incoming freshmen and transfer students have the exclusive opportunity to buy up to two passes until Aug. 1, when students from other universities can order them.
All-Sport Pass cards and football tickets may be picked up beginning Aug. 11.
David Miles, ticket manager at the Marriott Center ticket office, said about 14,600 seats will be reserved for students at football games.
“We want to stress that students buy early so they are assured a full six game season [for football],” Miles said. “If students buy their passes late, and a football game has already sold out, then they will not get a ticket for that game.”
Miles said he predicts sell-out crowds for the football games against USC and Notre Dame. Regularly priced, season tickets for football games cost between $90 and $156.
To get group seating, Miles said students could gather a group together, or just gather the confirmation receipts of those in the group when picking up tickets.
“The key is to come pick up the tickets with the group of people you want to sit with at games to get consecutively numbered tickets,” Miles said.
Students must also show their student ID to use the All-Sport Pass. Ticket managers at the BYU ticket office said students can lend their All-Sport Passes to non-students, but the non-students must pay an upgrade fee – $5 for football games and $3 for other events.
Last year, All-Sport Pass holders received discounts at concession stands at football games and other deals at the BYU Bookstore.
Passes may be bought online at www.byutickets.com
