Is the BYU/UConn game sold out?

[Jimdish255]

I'll be joining Waq (and Butch +1) on Friday thanks for the offers - he's pretty fast on the reply

 

[Husky25]

UConn selectively releases tickets for purchase. There are various promotions where UConn saved blocks of tickets for a chamber of commerce, etc. They slowly release those back into the ticket poo as welll. It sucks but I don't doubt the report. Threw up in mouth.

As I said, seem pretty counter intuitive to have a Fill the Rent campaign and then hold 20% of the stadiums capacity as late as 45:25:00 before kick off, no?

 

[huskypantz]

As I said, seem pretty counter intuitive to have a Fill the Rent campaign and then hold 20% of the stadiums capacity as late as 45:25:00 before kick off, no?

What's the difference? What would make you more likely to buy tickets if you were holding off - 800 green dots or 9000 green dots? Plus it allows uconn to strategically sell tickets - so for example you can sell more tickets where the TV camera angles hit more often.

 

[Palatine]

These are the sections with available tickets.

http://www.stubhub.com/connecticut-huskies-football-tickets/connecticut-vs-byu-8-29-2014-9003702/

It's the secondary market but the most tickets available in any section is 34 tickets and the vast majority of sections are unavailable.

 

[BoatShow]

I'mmmm confused.

 

[BoatShow]

These are the sections with available tickets.

http://www.stubhub.com/connecticut-huskies-football-tickets/connecticut-vs-byu-8-29-2014-9003702/

It's the secondary market but the most tickets available in any section is 34 tickets and the vast majority of sections are unavailable.

Those are seats already sold. Not entirely relevant.

 

[Skiblets]

I just tweeted Dez to see if his 30-31K excludes student tickets. If so, then I will feel MUCH better.

Let us know what you find out. This is confounding

 

[BoatShow]

I'mmmm confused.

We were looking at what 21-23k season tickets. Only 8-10k more between BYU fans and everyone else? Huh??

 

[Husky25]

What's the difference? What would make you more likely to buy tickets if you were holding off - 800 green dots or 9000 green dots? Plus it allows uconn to strategically sell tickets - so for example you can sell more tickets where the TV camera angles hit more often.

1) Neither. I already bought my tickets.
2) I'm not the one who came up with the bright idea of #FILLTHERENT (which I full support), and then withheld thousands of tickets until T-minus 44:55:00, 44:54:59, 44:54:58...

 

[specialisthusky]

It doesn't add up. I think Des is wrong...again. Either that or I must be surrounded by ticket buyers in the office and outside it. I've got guys in the office asking to join our tailgate that haven't been to a game in 2 years. Played in an intramural kickball game tonight with 5/8 guys on the team going to the game. Fyi the other threes became maybes by the end of the night.

I guess even if the 31k is accurate there is still a buzz, which would be the silver lining, but I'm not buying that number.

 

[ucjoet]

Don't know what to believe, but I am dumbfounded by the 31,000 number. We have 6 season tickets and have had a hard time getting more than that to join us over last 3 years. We have bought 6 extra tickets for a total of 12 people in our party for byu game. I expect game to be sold out or very close to it.

 

[DSquiz]

I have a group of 30 going Friday when we usually have 10. There is no way that number is correct.

 

[Palatine]

The UConn ticket on the Joe D. coaches show sounded pretty disappointed. But he didn't talk numbers.

 

[sportsart]

The UConn ticket on the Joe D. coaches show sounded pretty disappointed. But he didn't talk numbers.

The ticket talked?

 

[whaler11]

I would guess that the single available seats don't match because they are still selling season tickets and their technology somehow limits selling the same seats through both avenues at the same time.

 

[whaler11]

And I haven't looked at stubhub for this game - but UConn clearly posts seats there themselves or through a broker for some games. The Michigan game was blatently obvious it was UConn who still owned some the tickets on StubHub.

 

[junglehusky]

The ticket talked?

Maybe it was a ticket oak...

 

[ConnHuskBask]

I really didn't know what to expect with regards to attendance tomorrow night, but I would've hopped for mid 30s, so 31k would be a disappointment.

That all being said, given what we've been through the past 3 seasons, to have sold 31k given the context isn't awful.

 

[APA]

WTIC reported this morning that there were 9,000 tickets left. If true, that's stunning.

 

[Dooley]

Matt thinks that 31K INCLUDES students.

http://the-boneyard.com/blog/a-plea-to-husky-nation-time-to-huskyup/

 

[DSquiz]

If we have 22k season and even just 3k student (which I doubt is that low) that means we sold 6k single game/mini plan. I don't get it.

 

[BHusky]

The numbers don't add up and the only guess is that UConn has thousands of seats locked into season tickets/mini plans that they have not released as single game tickets. There are only roughly 2k tickets available online when you look at Ticketmaster, Stub Hub and Tickets Now. If the general public can only buy 2k seats and we sold 31k, where are those roughly 7k extra seats? Using Ticketmaster you can actually buy single game Club seats for $150 so those are factored into the 2k available online.