Standard policy. NFL has been doing it for years. Makes it difficult to donate tickets to charity for silent auctions, etc. You can get paper tickets if you go to the box office and request,
Cuts down on fraud as mobile transfers are done through the Panthers office - probably not an issue in Athens.
So if I have four tickets and all four people aren't coming at the same time, how do they get tickets? When given the option for paper or electronic tickets for concerts, I always go paper and save the stubs. I've got some classics all the way back to the early 70s including the Eagles, Pink Floyd, and CSN&Y. Lots of great stories and memories in those ticket stubs.