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Is the BYU/UConn game sold out?

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Dooley said:
It's true. It's what he wrote just a little while ago (last line of the article in the link provided)..

Between 30,000-31,000 tickets been sold as of noon Wednesday. Rentschler holds about 40,000.

http://www.courant.com/sports/uconn-football/hc-uconn-football-0828-20140827,0,672568.story

To say that I'm incredibly bummed is a HUGE understatement. Looks like the upper deck will be mostly empty for a national TV P5 audition.
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What gives with all the ticket counting showing 1000 or so left?
 
sportsart said:
What gives with all the ticket counting showing 1000 or so left?
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I hate des ever since our interaction on plane ride back from Maryland game - ask him on his twitter??
 
sportsart said:
What gives with all the ticket counting showing 1000 or so left?
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Don't know. My guess is BYU returned a TON of tickets and the counting dot theory is an exercise in futility (sorry lil' Fishy and Husky25!).
 
I still think that is a typo...are they ignoring students or something? It was a throw away line, so I will be very upset if that is remotely accurate.
 
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My guess is that there a lot of seats still available that require a seat donation that aren't being sold as individual game tickets only season tickets.
 
I just tweeted Dez to see if his 30-31K excludes student tickets. If so, then I will feel MUCH better.
 
Dooley said:
Don't know. My guess is BYU returned a TON of tickets and the counting dot theory is an exercise in futility (sorry lil' Fishy and Husky25!).
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Well if they only "sold" 31,000 tickets then they gave away 8,000. Seems counter intuitive to insinuated 75% capacity but not put the remaining up for sale. But what do I know. I only graduated with a B.S. from the School of Business Administration...On the other hand it was the old one. I was only required to buy a TI-82 graphing calculator for MATH 105 and 106, so my methods may be outdated.
 
UConnJim said:
My guess is that there a lot of seats still available that require a seat donation that aren't being sold as individual game tickets only season tickets.
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I dont know...you can grab a single chairback right now for $70
 
UConnJim said:
My guess is that there a lot of seats still available that require a seat donation that aren't being sold as individual game tickets only season tickets.
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That isn't it. They were selling chairbacks and lower level seats. No idea.
 
Even if it excludes student seats, that only puts attendance in the 36K range. Still low in my opinion but not as embarrassingly low as 31K.
 
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The seats I bought for Butch were best available. And were in 204. That doesn't add up to 9k unsold seats.
 
I thought that maybe UConn was holding some back on the website, but if you go look at Stony Brook you will see a lot of tickets available. And it looks like the visitor section tix are pretty much gone now (which is usually a litmus test after a school returns them) so I think there will be a good crowd. Also - Des is wrong a lot, so there is that.
 
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.
 
I'll be joining Waq (and Butch +1) on Friday thanks for the offers - he's pretty fast on the reply ;)
 
huskypantz said:
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.
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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?
 
Husky25 said:
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?
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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.
 
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Dooley said:
I just tweeted Dez to see if his 30-31K excludes student tickets. If so, then I will feel MUCH better.
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Let us know what you find out. This is confounding
 
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BoatShow said:
We were looking at what 21-23k season tickets. Only 8-10k more between BYU fans and everyone else? Huh??
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It doesn't seem to add up. BYU returned something around 2k tickets, so that doesn't help.

Labor Day weekend has never been good to us. BYU is a respected program, but it isn't Michigan. I was hoping for a sellout. I'll take 35k plus.
 
huskypantz said:
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.
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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...
 
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.
 
I know of 5 going to the game that haven't purchased tickets yet but are definitely going.

It probably won't sell out, but it I predict only the upper corners will be sparse.
 
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.
 
I have a group of 30 going Friday when we usually have 10. There is no way that number is correct.
 
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