Please read this. It is directly from the NCAA Rules. This is what you can and cannot do with your free admissions. Violating any of these rules could result in loss of tickets, suspension, or larger NCAA penalties
16.2 COMPLIMENTARY ADMISSIONS AND TICKET BENEFITS
16.2.1 Permissible Procedures
16.2.1.1 Institutional Events in the Student-Athlete’s Sport. An institution may provide four complimentary admissions per home or away intercollegiate athletics event to a student-athlete in the sport in which the individual participates (either practices or competes), regardless of whether the student-athlete competes in the contest.
16.2.1.1.1 Exception—Conference Championships, NCAA Championships and Bowl Games. An institution may provide each student- athlete who participates in or is a member of a team participating in a conference championship, NCAA championship or bowl game with six complimentary admissions to all intercollegiate athletics events at the site at which the student (or team) participates. (Adopted: 1/9/96 effective 8/1/96; Revised 11/1/01 effective 8/1/02)
16.2.1.2 General Regulations. Complimentary admissions shall be provided only through a pass list for individuals designated by the student-athlete. “Hard tickets” shall not be issued. The institution shall be responsible for this administrative procedure, and the student-athlete’s eligibility shall be affected by involvement in action contrary to the provisions of Bylaws 16.2.1.1 and 16.2.2.1 (i.e., receipt of more than the permissible four complimentary admissions or the sale or exchange of a complimentary admission for any item of value). (Revised: 1/11/94 effective 8/1/94)
16.2.1.2.1 Issuance Procedures. The individual utilizing the complimentary admission must present identification to the person supervising the use of the pass list at the admission gate. The individual then shall be provided a ticket stub or other identification of a specified reserved seat or seating area or treated as a general-admission ticket holder. (Revised: 11/1/01 effective 8/1/02)
16.2.1.3 Institution’s Home Events in Other Sports. An institution may provide admission for each student-athlete to all of the institution’s regular-season home intercollegiate athletics events in sports other than that in which the student-athlete is a participant, via a printed student-athlete pass or gate list. Proof of identity shall be required upon admission.
16.2.1.3.1 Not a Qualifier. A partial qualifier or nonqualifier (per Bylaw 14.02.9.2) may receive a complimentary admission to all of the institution’s regular-season home intercollegiate athletics events in the first academic year of residence.
16.2.1.3.2 Complimentary Admissions to an Institution’s Home Contest Honoring a Student-Athlete. An institution may provide a maximum of three complimentary admissions to a student-athlete for an institution’s game or event during which a student-athlete is being honored but not participating, provided such complimentary admissions are used by the student-athlete’s parents, legal guardians and/or spouse. (Adopted: 4/27/00 effective 8/1/00)
16.2.2 Nonpermissible Procedures.
16.2.2.1 Sale of Complimentary Admissions. A student-athlete may not receive payment from any
source for his or her complimentary admissions and may not exchange or assign them for any item of value.
16.2.2.2 Payment to Third Party. Individuals designated by the student-athlete to receive complimentary
admissions are not permitted to receive any type of payment for the admissions or to exchange or assign them
for any item of value. Receipt of payment for complimentary admissions by such designated individuals is prohibited
and considered an extra benefit.
16.2.2.3 Student-Athlete Ticket Purchases. An institution may not provide a special arrangement to sell a
student-athlete ticket(s) to an athletics event. Tickets shall be available for purchase by student-athletes according
to the same purchasing procedures used for other students.
16.2.2.4 Sale above Face Value. A student-athlete may not purchase tickets for an intercollegiate athletics
event from the institution and then sell the tickets at a price greater than their face value.
16.2.2.5 Professional Sports Tickets. An institution or any representative of its athletics interests may not
purchase or otherwise obtain tickets to a professional sports event and make these tickets available to studentathletes
enrolled in an NCAA member institution. Such a gift of tickets would represent an unacceptable extra
benefit. (See Bylaw 16.7.1.1 for permissible provision of professional sports tickets as team entertainment related
to an away-from-home contest.)
TICKETS RULES & REGULATIONS
