Saturday night in Tiger Stadium is one of the most anticipated experiences for incoming University freshmen, but they may only be able to attend half of the upcoming season’s home games.That’s because if upperclassmen — who get priority for reserving tickets — reserve more than 14,000 of the 15,000 tickets allocated to students, incoming freshmen will have to choose between two separate three-game packages with the option of adding the game against Arkansas played the day after Thanksgiving, said Hunter Geisman student ticket coordinator.One package would include the game against Florida. The other would include the game against Auburn. There is also a possibility that more than 1,000 tickets will remain after upperclassmen reserve, allowing the ticket office to offer the full eight-game home package to incoming freshmen, Geisman said.”Last year and 2003 were fluke years because we were coming off national championships,” Geisman said. “Both of those years we had less than 1,000 tickets remaining for the incoming freshman. Every year other than those two, we have been able to fulfill full [seven-game] packages for incoming freshmen. Coming off an 8-5 year, I would say it is more likely than last year that they would get the full game package, but it just depends on what the upperclassmen do.”Offering split packages will allow a larger amount of freshmen to experience Tiger Stadium instead of having only half of those students go to every home game, said Student Government President Stuart Watkins.Student Government has been working with the athletic department to avoid a situation like last year where freshmen were expecting to get full season packages until their time to reserve in August, said Student Government Vice President Martina Scheuermann.”Our biggest concern is education, because last year [the athletic department] didn’t get the word out early enough and freshmen came through orientation thinking they were going to get a full package, but they get online and only get half the package,” Scheuermann said. “I think that is where a lot of the negative feelings about it came up, because they were not informed.”Student Government is also working with the athletic department to implement a plan that will help allocate more tickets to those who actively attend every game. Under this plan, any student who does not attend at least three home games or earn a total of 60 priority points will be demoted to freshman level when reserving tickets the following season, Watkins said.”We want to reward the people who are actively going to all the games with the hope of being able to offer more freshman tickets in years to come,” Watkins said.Watkins is also working with the athletic department on the possibility of students getting discounted concessions in the student section when using their Tiger Card.Watkins also said the annual Student Government away game bus trip will be going to the game at Mississippi State the weekend of September 26.—-Contact Xerxes A. Wilson at [email protected]