From Tampa Tribune:

USF’s bowl tickets rank 3rd in Big East
Posted January 20, 2009 by Brett McMurphy
Updated Jan 20, 2009 at 11:49 PM

WHERE’S THE SCHOOL SPIRIT? Of the six Big East schools that went to bowl games in 2008, USF sold the third-most tickets (8,500). The actual attendance at Tropicana Field for the St. Petersburg Bowl was 21,863.

However, despite one of the nation’s largest enrollments, only 533 – or 1.1 percent – of the school’s student body attended the St. Pete Bowl, located about 40 minutes from campus.

What’s more surprising about the low student turnout was USF offered discounted $10 tickets and of USF’s fall enrollment of 46,330, nearly two-thirds of USF’s students (30,300) are from nearby Hillsborough, Pinellas, Pasco, Polk, Manatee and Sarasota counties.

Here are the number of tickets sold by each Big East school for its 2008 bowl games according to each university. Pittsburgh, which played in the Sun Bowl, did not release its ticket numbers.

School (Bowl tickets sold by school) Bowl
West Virginia (18,800) Meineke Car Care
Cincinnati (13,187) Orange
USF (8,500) St. Pete
Rutgers (5,012) Papajohns.com
UConn (3,500) International

of course that doesnt take into account those fans that did NOT buy thru the school. I was at the St Pete Bowl and it was obvious that there were at least 20k USF fans there

(01-22-2009 06:56 PM)Cubanbull Wrote:  of course that doesnt take into account those fans that did NOT buy thru the school. I was at the St Pete Bowl and it was obvious that there were at least 20k USF fans there

There were more than 18,800 Mountaineer fans in Charlotte too. The stadium was fairly evenly split between UNC and WVU...

Correct, reading this article would leave you to believe USF only sold 8,500 tickets, when actually they sold 20K plus (if other sources of ticket purchases are included).

same should be said about everyone else on that list. RU had at least 10 k in Birmingham.

Yeah, I thought the numbers for RU seemed low. I had heard they sold a lot more than that.

Same thing for cincy we had at least 18,000 in miami.

It's easy to see why UC gets so much guff... they win the conference, but are still runner-up in tix. I know things are in the right direction, but, it's frustrating nevertheless.

how many did ucf send to their bowl?

(01-23-2009 02:23 AM)BullsBEAST Wrote:  how many did ucf send to their bowl?