Texas A&M Athletics has established new student seating rules regarding standing on the bleachers
Texas A&M students heading to the season opener against UCLA will find a new stadium seating rule written on the top of their tickets: “Step ‘off the wood’ Stand on the Concrete”.
Discovered via student discussions on Twitter, the Texas A&M Athletics Department rules now require that students refrain from standing atop the aluminum bleachers, asking that fans stand on the floor of their assigned rows instead.
Standing for the duration of the game is a time honored tradition for Texas A&M students, but the act of standing on the bleachers - which has been customary for at least the past 25 years - has never been a formal requirement of the practice.