Wow! Huge 60-70 miles road trip crowd!

Something tells me almost every other Big East Team would have a larger road crowd if they played ANY football game just 60-70 miles away.

http://www.sptimes.com/2006/09/13/Sports...s_up.shtml

Ticket issue trips up students
By GREG AUMAN, Times Staff Writer
Published September 13, 2006

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TAMPA - Saturday's USF-Central Florida game in Orlando likely won't match last year's attendance of 45,139, then the largest ever to see the Bulls play at Raymond James Stadium. And though USF today will return to UCF a decent chunk of its allotment of 5,000 tickets (USF returned 3,024 unsold tix to UCF), the Bulls have made an active push to get more students to Saturday's game.

Questionably active by some standards, even if the drive is well-intended.

Student Government bought two lots totaling 1,250 tickets from UCF at a discounted rate of $12 each - half face value - then went a step further by selling them to students at $5 each, subsidizing the difference of $8,750, with some of that money coming from the Activity and Services fees students pay as part of their tuition.

Monday's initial sale of 500 tickets sold quickly enough that SG called an emergency meeting that night to authorize purchase of another block of 750. Those tickets sold out Tuesday afternoon, with about 150 students still in line when the last seat was sold. Their gripe? Organizers didn't put a cap on how many tickets could be purchased, so long as there was a student ID number with every ticket purchase. As a result, one student representing a group of about 12 fraternities bought blocks of 400 tickets, while others got none.

"I wanted Greek Life to come together to represent USF with one massive push for tickets together," said Charlie Aguirre, who waited in line for 90 minutes before the ticket window opened Tuesday.

Thomas King, a junior and SG's comptroller, filed a memo at Monday's emergency meeting, objecting that rules governing the allocation of student funds had been circumvented in the rush to get more tickets.

Independent of student sales, USF had sold 1,976 tickets, well short of its allotment. But the combined total of 3,200-plus tickets sold is actually the second-largest contingent for a Bulls away game, trailing only last year's bowl debut in the Meineke Car Care Bowl in Charlotte.

Asked for an update on total sales, UCF assistant athletic director Joe Hornstein was hesitant to give any figures Monday, saying only that he expected Saturday's crowd to surpass the attendance for the Knights' season opener against Villanova, announced as 29,398. Any crowd near that size would fall short of hopes on both sides of the rivalry.

It says about 3200 have been sold so far

TexanMark Wrote:It says about 3200 have been sold so far

I wasn't talking about the special $5 tix that 1,250 students bought.

USF-UCF contract calls for each school to receive 5,000 tix (regular price) to sell to season tix holders, alumni, fans, etc..'

Out of that allotment, USF only sold 1,976 and returned the rest.

USF students bought discounted $5 end zone seat tix subsidized by their Student Gov't.

Sorry you didn't understand the difference.

KL

PS. Even this pathetic crowd is LARGEST USF Road Attendance ever for a regular season game.

Pitiful...just pitiful...but....What's new?.....Hey Golden Knights, have you put solid, transparent face guards on all your helmets so the thugs from Southwestcentral Florida won't gouge your eyes out?....

Why should USF fans care about a worthless series against a Non BCS School.

Maize Wrote:Why should USF fans care about a worthless series against a Non BCS School.

Maize how many fans would Louisville travel to Lexington see them play a CUSA team? USF needs to travel--of course UF@Tenn is that weekend--->a root cause

well those stupid attendance posts were all pointless after USF represented very well and took over the Citrus Bowl at the end.