A subcommittee of the Ohio State Athletic Council presented a recommended plan Tuesday for how football tickets should be distributed among faculty, staff, students and alumni when OSU switches to semesters in 2012.

Under a semester system, students will be on campus for earlier football games since the Autumn term will begin earlier. Students on the council wanted more tickets for the early games.

Under the Finance and Facilities subcommittee proposal, the students would receive about 13,000 tickets for each of these two early non-conference games. That is an increase of about 8,000 from the current allocation, but fewer than the 15,000 the students advocated for.

The Alumni Association wanted their tickets to be more spread out over the season, Jay Hansen, spokesman for the Association said.

The majority of alumni tickets are currently crowded into early non-conference games.

Under the subcommittee plan, the alumni tickets are still concentrated in early games, but the ticket amount was expanded to three games rather than two.

For the most part, faculty and staff wanted to maintain their current share of tickets.

The subcommittee proposal would not change the number of tickets set aside for faculty and staff, or how they are distributed throughout the season.

It is a complicated process, said Karen Mancl, chair of the subcommittee. “All the math has to work out,” she said. “And all the dollar signs.”

The Athletic Department did not want to lose money by allocating more student tickets, which are cheaper.

The proposal would not decrease revenue.

The plan uses a model of a typical season with three non-conference games, one of them ranked, and four Big Ten games.

The recommended plan would not change the overall number of tickets available for each group over the season, but would shift student and alumni tickets from certain games to others.

While the number of student tickets would be increased for the early non-conference games, it is less than the students had hoped for.

For the first three games of a typical season, under the proposal, there will be more faculty, staff and alumni in the stadium than students.

Peter Koltak, a student representative, said while that is disappointing to the students on the council, it was “the best option available.”

Maintaining 30,000 student tickets for Big Ten games, which the proposal would do, was “critically important,” he said. “It’s a trade-off.”

Mancl said there have historically been a small number of tickets allocated for students for the early games, and that the subcommittee plan nearly triples those numbers.

Koltak also said there was lack of a willingness to compromise from some of the faculty members on the subcommittee, and they did not show as much “creativity” in devising a reallocation plan as other groups, he said.

Both the students and alumni “had to give up some of what they wanted,” he said.

The proposal was narrowed down from 13 different plans, one of which included changing nothing.

“One of the choices we had was to change nothing,” Mancl said, ” to leave it exactly as it is.”

The proposals were discussed at subcommittee meetings and the recommendation represents “the outcome of those discussions and all of the analysis that we did,” Mancl said.

There are five faculty members, three students and two alumni on the subcommittee.

No vote took place at the meeting Tuesday evening. That is likely to occur at the May meeting where Mancl said there are three possible outcomes. The council could vote to accept, reject or send the proposal back to the subcommittee.

“People have a month to think about it,” she said.