The Kansas athletic department, who’s basketball points system caused much controversy last year, will be implementing a points system for football season ticket holders.

Season ticket holders were notified this week that the points system will be implemented. In coming weeks season-ticket holders will receive details on the system and an application for season tickets, associate athletic director Jim Marchiony said.

The idea of the points system is to give the best seats to people who have the most points.

The point system is nearly identical to the system implemented for basketball tickets. Points will be calculated the same way that they are for basketball.

“Points are points, so that if you have X number of points, you have that number of points for each sport,” Marchiony said. “There are not different points in football than there are in basketball.”

Marchiony said, a difference between basketball and football will be that some individuals will be guaranteed a certain level of seating. Anyone who has held football season tickets for fifteen or more years and is a member of the Williams Educational Fund, will be guaranteed seats between the twenty yard lines.

The goal of the points system is to increase revenue to the Williams Fund. Marchiony estimated that about 2,500 of the 12,000 season ticket holders are not Williams Fund members.

The point system raised an additional $8 million since being introduced with basketball. Marchiony said they had no idea how much money would be raised through football.

There are several ways to get points, besides donations. Maintaining season tickets for non-revenue sports and being a K-Club member are among the other ways.

Marchiony said that the athletic department has not received complaints about the football points system at this time.