Student Government and Athletics Department leaders have decided to make basketball ticket procedures based upon seniority and loyalty points after holding meetings to attempt to reform basketball ticketing,Student ticketing will not be general admission, but SG Athletics Commission Chair Matt Garcia, a junior in sports management, said he is excited to get the most loyal students the best seats to games. “This system is modeled after the football system, but it is a little more direct,” Garcia said. “This system underclassmen a chance to build on loyalty and catch up with the upperclassmen.”Another ticketing change to take effect this year comes with the size of group seating requests. The size of the groups has been reduced from 24 people to a maximum of 10, based on responses to a Student Government survey. Garcia said the Athletics Commission would eventually like to see general admission seating for basketball. “As of now, it’s not general admission, at least not yet,” Garcia said. “There might be changes in 2009-2010 but that is still yet to be determined.”Student Body President Jay Dawkins said having a general admission system for this season was not feasible. “For now, the task of making general admission work in a divided and mixed RBC Center was logisitcally daunting,” he said. “It was feasibly impossible.”Dawkins said the overall goal of the basketball ticketing was similar to the football ticketing changes made earlier this year. “We’re trying to accomplish the same thing,” Dawkins said. “We want students to get close to the action, reward loyal and more senior students and pack the stands.”Zach Sipes, a sophomore in nutrition science, said he is glad to see the baketball ticketing system resemble football ticketing. “It makes a lot of sense because it just doesn’t seem right for students who don’t go to games to get lucky and get good seats,” Sipes said. “Students who go to games shouldn’t be thrown up in the third level.”Garcia said the new system will force fans to be concerned about every game and not just major conference games.”The new system makes upperclassmen care more about all the games rather than just the big games,” he said. “It’s an instrument to get more people involved than they’ve been in the past. People need to know they have competition.”A statement that the commission released reported that future changes could be possible, but Dawkins said he is satisfied with where ticketing stands for this season. “We’ll cross that bridge when we get to it,” Dawkins said. “The RBC Center is a totaly different animal than Carter-Finley Stadium but we feel like we’ve found a way to give the students what they wanted while also rewarding loyal fans.”Sipes said he doesn’t see general admission seating working in the RBC Center. “I don’t think it could work because it’s all individual seats at the RBC Center,” he said. “But at Carter-Finley, the seats are all in rows and you don’t have to worry about individual seats.”