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Message: [QUOTE="Fishy, post: 2108104, member: 38"] No, you're trolling and, worse, you're ignorant. Louisville hasn't played in the Fiesta Bowl since 1991, so I'm not exactly sure what the hell you're referring to with 17,000 ticket sales. The year we went to the Fiesta, we sold 3,000 through the school and Oklahoma sold 5,000 of their allotments. The rest of the fans did what people do - they bought tickets on their own and avoided the packages that came with the official tickets. Every school was obligated by the BCS to buy 18,000 tickets. No school in that three year period ever purchased their full allotment - not one. Not even Alabama playing for a title sold their allotment. Every single school over that three year period returned tickets. Every single school lost money on every single BCS appearance. No exceptions. If UConn was in any way unique, it was that every conference bailed out their bowl participants by eating the loss - the Big 12 ate $1.9M for Oklahoma - while the Big East let UConn pay the tab. And that was a bitch of a game to get to for UConn. When travel doesn't involve a $1,000 round trip plane ticket or a passport, UConn travels just fine - the school sold all 12,000 of its Car Care tickets to North Carolina and the 7,500 to the Motor City Bowl. So blow it out of your ass. [/QUOTE]