Where do all the students who have cars parked on campus move their cars to on football game days?

brocktune90 wrote:http://parking.appstate.edu/football-parking-students

So basically they have to leave campus with their vehicle or join the Yosef club. Maybe that's why so many go home on weekends.

Really?? That may be the most uninformed leap I've read on this board in months...yes, everyone drives 1+hours each direction to spend time with mom so they don't have to move their car to the State Farm lot. Child Please!

Boone Goon wrote:Really?? That may be the most uninformed leap I've read on this board in months...yes, everyone drives 1+hours each direction to spend time with mom so they don't have to move their car to the State Farm lot. Child Please!

How do they get back to campus from State Farm? Walk? What about instructors who work in their offices on weekends? One instructor I talked to a few years ago said he hated football weekends because he couldn't get to his office on those days.
Plus, I didn't say "all" students.

NewApp wrote:

Boone Goon wrote:Really?? That may be the most uninformed leap I've read on this board in months...yes, everyone drives 1+hours each direction to spend time with mom so they don't have to move their car to the State Farm lot. Child Please!

How do they get back to campus from State Farm? Walk? What about instructors who work in their offices on weekends? One instructor I talked to a few years ago said he hated football weekends because he couldn't get to his office on those days.
Plus, I didn't say "all" students.

I walked a few times. There's also the Appalcart, friends with cars, etc. We just worked it out. I guess we just weren't as concerned with things being so convenient. There are other places that aren't on campus where professors can park on weekends if they're only there for a few hours. Heck, my senior year I didn't pay for campus parking. My schedule worked out that I could park near campus in time limited parking, go to class, go back to my car and move it or go somewhere else for awhile, and then return and park somewhere else.

NewApp wrote:

brocktune90 wrote:http://parking.appstate.edu/football-parking-students

So basically they have to leave campus with their vehicle or join the Yosef club. Maybe that's why so many go home on weekends.

That doesn't explain why all the kids are in the stadium for the first half of our games.

NewApp wrote:

brocktune90 wrote:http://parking.appstate.edu/football-parking-students

So basically they have to leave campus with their vehicle or join the Yosef club. Maybe that's why so many go home on weekends.

It is kind of annoying. You paid for a space in Stadium/Greenwood/Rivers Street/wherever and you can't park there on game days.

But, most of the students who have on-campus permits don't live on campus. They use the permits to drive to class on Monday-Friday. So, they don't have to move their cars, they simply don't get to drive to their normal spot on game-days.

Most on-campus students with cars are parked at State Farm anyway. The on-campus students who leave their cars in on-campus lots do have to move their cars on Friday night/Saturday morning. They come back with rides from friends or the Appalcart. Again, it's annoying. But, not that big of a deal.

And most students don't have parking passes at all. Most students can easily access campus via the Appalcart.

I do see why professors who wish to go to their office on Saturday would be annoyed. But, its six days out of a whole year.

NewApp wrote:

Boone Goon wrote:Really?? That may be the most uninformed leap I've read on this board in months...yes, everyone drives 1+hours each direction to spend time with mom so they don't have to move their car to the State Farm lot. Child Please!

How do they get back to campus from State Farm? Walk?

Regular AppleCart campus/city/county transportation routes to/from State Farm Lot 18 hours a day.
Arrange a ride with a friend who lives off campus.
Arrange a ride with a friend who lives on campus, but leases private parking space from businesses or town folks.
Late at night after or between bus runs or in bad weather--call a campus cop. Five minute wait, tops.
It's really no big deal.

What about instructors who work in their offices on weekends? One instructor I talked to a few years ago said he hated football weekends because he couldn't get to his office on those days.
Plus, I didn't say "all" students.

Once upon a time at ASU, all faculty members including Instructors and grad assistants qualified for faculty parking privileges. That was changed during the Borkowski era. Instructors are bonafide faculty members with faculty parking privileges. That "ASU Faculty Parking Sticker" is a highly coveted temporary "deed" to defined parking areas with a defined expiration date. Grad assistants now receive "staff" parking privileges only.

Anyone and everyone who is employed (or just lives) on a college campus knows that parking at any time comes at a premium; and that parking during special events requires some planning and patience. One who hates football season because he/she might be somewhat inconvenienced for five or six Saturdays a year is either a poor planner or a whiner--or both. I've "been there--done that" and I'm feeling no sympathy whatsoever. You just plan ahead.

NewApp wrote:

brocktune90 wrote:http://parking.appstate.edu/football-parking-students

So basically they have to leave campus with their vehicle or join the Yosef club. Maybe that's why so many go home on weekends.

What???

It's been a few years since I lived in Boone, but kids don't typically go home on non-holiday weekends. What an absurd post.

While the undergraduate enrollment may be in the 14,000 neighborhood, there are not 14,000 students who need to relocate on game day. Many of the parking spaces used by students would be for students who live off campus and drive to campus for class. Drive by Raley or Duncan on a non-game Saturday and count the cars ... it won't take you very long.

Freshmen are pretty much guaranteed to be parking at State Farm as it is. The AppalCart State Farm loop is well worn for sure.

So ... students who actually do live AND park on campus have to move their cars for games. That's not nearly as many students as you might think. I'll be happy to pick up a student who moves his car from the stadium lot and take him right back to the spot he vacated on game day.

I can't believe everyone here is falling for this.

AppinVA wrote:I can't believe everyone here is falling for this.

I can't believe this is even a topic. It has been this way since, oh, 2005? When I was a freshman at App, in 1998, we couldn't park in the stadium lot on game days. The same for my sister in 1995. Our cars remained at State Farm for the whole weekend, generally. I sure as heck never "went home" because of the policy.

Shut this stupid thread down.

Yeah, go figure. Google...it works.

I just left out the lmgtfy link this time.

BeauFoster wrote:

AppinVA wrote:I can't believe everyone here is falling for this.

I can't believe this is even a topic. It has been this way since, oh, 2005? When I was a freshman at App, in 1998, we couldn't park in the stadium lot on game days. The same for my sister in 1995. Our cars remained at State Farm for the whole weekend, generally. I sure as heck never "went home" because of the policy.

Shut this stupid thread down.

Yes. Some folks consider pre-2005 the good old days when they could pull up next to the stadium 15 minutes before kickoff and get a ticket on the 40 yard line.

We all got what we deserved when we opened this thread. If we don't know by now then shame on us.

I had to move my car out of the stadium lot on game days in the early 80's. No breaking news here.

BeauFoster wrote:

AppinVA wrote:I can't believe everyone here is falling for this.

I can't believe this is even a topic. It has been this way since, oh, 2005? When I was a freshman at App, in 1998, we couldn't park in the stadium lot on game days. The same for my sister in 1995. Our cars remained at State Farm for the whole weekend, generally. I sure as heck never "went home" because of the policy.

Shut this stupid thread down.

Just to clarify, student parking has been decreasing on campus on game days since 2005. Before then, most parts of campus were available, aside from the Stadium lot. But as said plenty of times before, this is old news to anyone who has been to Boone in the last 25 or more years.

Guess what New App? You don't get to park in your paid lot on game days for the Carolina Panthers either. As for the professor he/she ought to embrace more of the college experience and take 6 Saturdays off a year. Move along to some other trolling topic.

I have been paying $750 per year for my daughter to park in a private lot adjacent to the campus. Why you ask? In a word, safety.

The private lot guarantees her a parking spot 24/7 EXCEPT ON GAME DAYS. Neither she nor I have a problem with that.