After two horrible losses by the CU football team, I am feeling good about my decision not to buy season tickets. It seemed like a good deal before the season started, but now looks like a big waste of money.
As a transfer student with last semester being my first, I was excited for my first Division I college football experience. Boy, did that excitement get crushed fast.
The student season ticket deal seemed like a good idea. $175 for all football and basketball home games. What a deal! I�m so glad I didn�t take the bait.

Students cheer after the Buffs score during the opening minutes of Colorado’s Feb. 26 win over Cal, 70-57, in this file photo. CU won the Pac-12 Championship in basketball last year, but does that mean you should buy season tickets? (CU Independent File/James Bradbury)
It�s only $100 for just basketball games, and that is such a better deal considering our team’s ability to actually win. Why should I spend my hard-earned $75 to watch the football team go 0-12? Now I�m sure that before the season, people buying tickets thought that we were going to beat Colorado State and Sacramento State, but that still meant $75 for just two likely wins.
It�s sad that we are only two games into the football season, and I am already looking forward to basketball. While I�m at it, the soccer and volleyball teams are also having good seasons, and they are free to watch.
Before the season started, I thought the football team was going to win those two games, but I was already skeptical about the other ten games. Now, after two losses, I am hard pressed to find a win while looking at their schedule.
I do believe in Jon Embree and think that the program is headed in the right direction. In three or four years, we might even be good. Maybe. That doesn�t help me for the two years when I get the student deal on season tickets though.
Even the experience and fun one can have in the student section doesn�t make up for the 50 point shellacking the University of Southern California will give us on Oct. 20. That�s just a little foreshadowing.
The first two games weren�t that fun. I paid $75 to get ridiculed by Rams fans. That doesn�t sound like fun to me. And then to lose to an FCS team. It�s ridiculous – that�s the only way I can think to describe it.
Now, I will always root for the Buffs and will still attend games this year, but I’ll probably go more for the atmosphere than for what�s happening on the field. If it starts getting ugly on Folsom Field, at least we have a beautiful view of the mountains to look at. Still, $175 seems a little steep for a view of the mountains � which is why I�m glad I didn�t buy season tickets.
Contact CU Independent Staff Writer Scott Annis at Robert.annis@colorado.edu.
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You are clearly not a true fan.