Houston ticket sales

[temery]

any idea how many have been sold?

 

[CTBballfan243]

Last I checked, several tickets have been sold, and several tickets are still available to be sold. I predict an average to above average crowd for the Houston game.

 

[Waquoit]

I read "several thousands" somewhere.

 

[BoatShow]

Between 15k and 40k if I had to guess

 

[Redding Husky]

Assuming good weather, I'll guess we get a crowd of 30,000. The team is 5-5 and we possibly have a Top 25 and undefeated team coming in.

But if the weather is bad and Houston loses to Memphis, we could be looking at 22,000.

Those are just wild guesses.

 

[J187Money]

Calling for rain now.

 

[Redding Husky]

Calling for rain now.

Snow would be good. I bet there isn't one Houston player that's ever played in snow.

 

[Dooley]

I would LOVE it if we had a nice crappy New England Saturday to welcome Houston to Connecticut.

 

[Dooley]

Promo codes for $15 tickets: 'FRONTIER' and 'THANKS'

 

[CTBasketball]

Give me the weather from the 07' USF game (as well as the result ).

 

[huskymedic]

UConnStudentTix9:27am via Twitter Web Client
Stop by the ticket office for $10 student and friends & family tix. Seniors are free with your ID! #bleedblue

 

[Dooley]

UConnStudentTix9:27am via Twitter Web Client
Stop by the ticket office for $10 student and friends & family tix. Seniors are free with your ID! #bleedblue

Well done by the Athletic Department. They're trying to fill the Rent...even giving away tickets. Hopefully the students and fanbase responds in kind.

 

[Dooley]

Looking at the site ticket map, there are TONS of tickets remaining. I think it will be wise for all of us (especially me!) to temper excitement and expectation level for a big crowd. By the looks of it, we'll be lucky to have 30K in the stadium.

Oh well. I guess it's on us diehards to generate the kind of atmosphere this team and these players deserve on Saturday. They'll need our help - no matter how many fans decide not to show up.

 

[Drew]

23k sold according to Des. Pathetic.

 

[NYUConn]

23,000 tix sold so far per Des.

http://www.courant.com/sports/uconn...ouston-game-ticket-offers-20151116-story.html

23,000-gd-tickets. Are you kidding me?

This is atrocious. I know we have a full week to go, but this is seriously pathetic.

The school has been promoting the hell out of this game. Not sure what else can be done.

 

[brasssbonanzaa]

23,000 tix sold so far per Des.

http://www.courant.com/sports/uconn...ouston-game-ticket-offers-20151116-story.html

23,000-gd-tickets. Are you kidding me?

This is atrocious. I know we have a full week to go, but this is seriously pathetic.

The school has been promoting the hell out of this game. Not sure what else can be done.

Win, pretty much. That and the common fan around CT really doesn't give two craps about Houston. Being so terrible over the past few years in addition to playing no-name AAC teams is what kills attendance for us.

 

[Drew]

Win, pretty much. That and the common fan around CT really doesn't give two craps about Houston. Being so terrible over the past few years in addition to playing no-name AAC teams is what kills attendance for us.

No-name AAC team argument doesn't carry weight here. This is a top 15/20 team coming to the Rent in late November and we're 5-5. This is solely on the fans, UConn sports marketing has done an amazing job for this game and I NEVER say that about our marketing department.

 

[NYUConn]

Win, pretty much. That and the common fan around CT really doesn't give two craps about Houston. Being so terrible over the past few years in addition to playing no-name AAC teams is what kills attendance for us.

I agree. Problem is the team is winning more this year than the past two season. One win away from bowl eligibility and Houston isn't East Carolina or Tulane, it's a nationally-ranked program.

I mean if we can't get to 30K for this game, when are we going to get it?

 

[NYUConn]

Also we've won two straight since the USF debacle. This team isn't limping into it's final home game.

This is really, truly sad.

 

[brasssbonanzaa]

No-name AAC team argument doesn't carry weight here. This is a top 15/20 team coming to the Rent in late November and we're 5-5. This is solely on the fans, UConn sports marketing has done an amazing job for this game and I NEVER say that about our marketing department.

That's not the argument I'm making. The argument is, no one here cares about Houston. Top 15/20 is meaningless to casual sports fans around here. You're right that it is on the listlessness of the fans here, but it is what it is - no one in CT cares about nearly every AAC team. A game against 5-5 Syracuse, WVU, or Pittsburgh will outdraw 10-0 Houston every single time.

 

[NYUConn]

That's not the argument I'm making. The argument is, no one here cares about Houston. Top 15/20 is meaningless to casual sports fans around here. You're right that it is on the listlessness of the fans here, but it is what it is - no one in CT cares about nearly every AAC team. A game against 5-5 Syracuse, WVU, or Pittsburgh will outdraw 10-0 Houston every single time.

I agree with that, but that's not our reality anymore. Those teams - at least for the foreseeable future - aren't coming to the Rent this late in the season.

It's not that we are asking people to get excited about playing Houston on Nov. 21st, we're looking for people to simply stay excited for UConn football.

At 5-5 with a shot at bowl eligibility on the line, you would hope our fans would be plugged in enough to recognize how big this game is regardless of the opponent.

 

[businesslawyer]

The reality of football in New England is that once the weather cools down and basketball season starts, if we're not really good attendance will decline from September and October. Just the way it is.

If we get about 27k Saturday and average that roughly for the year, that will be not at all terrible given what happened to our fanbase over the last two years. Next year, we need to be back up over 30k per. But expectations that we are going to do what we used to do in this conference when attendance is down nationally is hard for me to understand.

 

[brasssbonanzaa]

I agree with that, but that's not our reality anymore. Those teams - at least for the foreseeable future - aren't coming to the Rent this late in the season.

It's not that we are asking people to get excited about playing Houston on Nov. 21st, we're looking for people to simply stay excited for UConn football.

At 5-5 with a shot at bowl eligibility on the line, you would hope our fans would be plugged in enough to recognize how big this game is regardless of the opponent.

You're right. But I have difficulty believing the casual fans of CT are going to continue to stay excited for UConn football games against Houston, Tulane, Temple, ECU, etc. It's sad, but the support is not there for the program, and you could argue the athletic department as a whole, in and of itself at that level.

 

[uconnflyer88]

You're right. But I have difficulty believing the casual fans of CT are going to continue to stay excited for UConn football games against Houston, Tulane, Temple, ECU, etc. It's sad, but the support is not there for the program, and you could argue the athletic department as a whole, in and of itself at that level.

Also, people look at it as we're going to get out butts kicked anyways so why pay X amount of dollars for tix, food, drink and sit out in the frigid fall weather when they could be doing anything else.

 

[NYUConn]

I get people hate cold weather, but that's football.

I mean the season runs Sept.-Dec. this isn't a new development, you can't be shocked that you are going to play cold weather games.

Really sad state of affairs.