Nine sections of the Liberty bowl have sold out. Fifteen sections have a low number of seats available(many of these sections have fewer than 10 seats available). Twenty sections have a medium number of seats available(most with 10% to 25% available). Only four sections have a high number of seats available!

With 2 weeks to go before the opening game, it looks like the Tigers could set a record number of season tickets sold. With a couple of breaks (weather, wins) the Tigers could set a record for home attendance. There could also be a new record for total attendance.

I have a hard time putting into words just how much i am anticipating football season! Slightly less anticipation than the birth of a child, but more than the closing of a big deal.

(08-18-2018 03:01 PM)Keeper Wrote:  Nine sections of the Liberty bowl have sold out. Fifteen sections have a low number of seats available(many of these sections have fewer than 10 seats available). Twenty sections have a medium number of seats available(most with 10% to 25% available). Only four sections have a high number of seats available!

With 2 weeks to go before the opening game, it looks like the Tigers could set a record number of season tickets sold. With a couple of breaks (weather, wins) the Tigers could set a record for home attendance. There could also be a new record for total attendance.

I have a hard time putting into words just how much i am anticipating football season! Slightly less anticipation than the birth of a child, but more than the closing of a big deal.

Great news but we can never break the 64K record as the capacity was reduced to approx 59K. Handicapped and more box seats I think.

(08-18-2018 03:57 PM)Shooters Wrote:  

(08-18-2018 03:01 PM)Keeper Wrote:  Nine sections of the Liberty bowl have sold out. Fifteen sections have a low number of seats available(many of these sections have fewer than 10 seats available). Twenty sections have a medium number of seats available(most with 10% to 25% available). Only four sections have a high number of seats available!

With 2 weeks to go before the opening game, it looks like the Tigers could set a record number of season tickets sold. With a couple of breaks (weather, wins) the Tigers could set a record for home attendance. There could also be a new record for total attendance.

I have a hard time putting into words just how much i am anticipating football season! Slightly less anticipation than the birth of a child, but more than the closing of a big deal.

Great news but we can never break the 64K record as the capacity was reduced to approx 59K. Handicapped and more box seats I think.

For total attendance i mean the attendance at all Tiger game, both home and away. Road games at Navy, Missouri, and SMU should draw good crowds. I don't know how the crowd at ECUl has been lately but they used to fill up often. Tulane has a small but energetic crowd. These coupled with a record home attendance just might give us a new total attendance record.

The longer the American exists the larger the crowd at each and every game.

(08-18-2018 04:18 PM)Keeper Wrote:  

(08-18-2018 03:57 PM)Shooters Wrote:  

(08-18-2018 03:01 PM)Keeper Wrote:  Nine sections of the Liberty bowl have sold out. Fifteen sections have a low number of seats available(many of these sections have fewer than 10 seats available). Twenty sections have a medium number of seats available(most with 10% to 25% available). Only four sections have a high number of seats available!

With 2 weeks to go before the opening game, it looks like the Tigers could set a record number of season tickets sold. With a couple of breaks (weather, wins) the Tigers could set a record for home attendance. There could also be a new record for total attendance.

I have a hard time putting into words just how much i am anticipating football season! Slightly less anticipation than the birth of a child, but more than the closing of a big deal.

Great news but we can never break the 64K record as the capacity was reduced to approx 59K. Handicapped and more box seats I think.

For total attendance i mean the attendance at all Tiger game, both home and away. Road games at Navy, Missouri, and SMU should draw good crowds. I don't know how the crowd at ECUl has been lately but they used to fill up often. Tulane has a small but energetic crowd. These coupled with a record home attendance just might give us a new total attendance record.

The longer the American exists the large the crowd at each and every game.

Total attendance and Average attendance are only home records.

If things play out right, we might set the single game record for non-ole miss or ut game this season as well.

Love the enthusiasm, BUT most of those medium availability sections on the visitor side are at medium because giant chunks have been blocked off for the Kroger tickets. Just 3 days ago, all of those sections were high availability

The website always shows the section we sit in as not available. In reality, there are plenty of tix left. If you call, they’ll gladly sell you season tix in that section. So, the website map is a little misleading.

While I expect good attendance this year, not having a big time OOC game will hurt. We need to do a better job scheduling. We need to have an Ole Miss, UT, MSU, or even a UCLA, Louisville, Missouri, etc at home each year.

We also need to do a better job of building rivalries within conference. We need to build up the UCF game as a huge rivalry. They need to do more with Navy and Houston, as well. We used to have rivalries with Louisville, Southern Miss and UAB. All of those games generated better sales. We need to build up our in-conference rivalries more.

(08-18-2018 08:03 PM)ksigtigerdood Wrote:  The website always shows the section we sit in as not available. In reality, there are plenty of tix left. If you call, they’ll gladly sell you season tix in that section. So, the website map is a little misleading.

While I expect good attendance this year, not having a big time OOC game will hurt. We need to do a better job scheduling. We need to have an Ole Miss, UT, MSU, or even a UCLA, Louisville, Missouri, etc at home each year.

We also need to do a better job of building rivalries within conference. We need to build up the UCF game as a huge rivalry. They need to do more with Navy and Houston, as well. We used to have rivalries with Louisville, Southern Miss and UAB. All of those games generated better sales. We need to build up our in-conference rivalries more.

They have to be willing to do it not power 5 team is lining up to play us right now.


That stuff takes time you cant just say we are rivals now or you look stupid like UCONN and the civil conflict

(08-18-2018 08:03 PM)ksigtigerdood Wrote:  The website always shows the section we sit in as not available. In reality, there are plenty of tix left. If you call, they’ll gladly sell you season tix in that section. So, the website map is a little misleading.

While I expect good attendance this year, not having a big time OOC game will hurt. We need to do a better job scheduling. We need to have an Ole Miss, UT, MSU, or even a UCLA, Louisville, Missouri, etc at home each year.

We also need to do a better job of building rivalries within conference. We need to build up the UCF game as a huge rivalry. They need to do more with Navy and Houston, as well. We used to have rivalries with Louisville, Southern Miss and UAB. All of those games generated better sales. We need to build up our in-conference rivalries more.

In my mind every conference game is a huge rivalry. If you are just talking about advertising you should talk to the Russians, they seem to be pretty good at that.

I was told by the ticket office that Navy tickets are selling well, as are Tulane tickets, which I would expect anyway.

(08-18-2018 03:01 PM)Keeper Wrote:  Nine sections of the Liberty bowl have sold out. Fifteen sections have a low number of seats available(many of these sections have fewer than 10 seats available). Twenty sections have a medium number of seats available(most with 10% to 25% available). Only four sections have a high number of seats available!

With 2 weeks to go before the opening game, it looks like the Tigers could set a record number of season tickets sold. With a couple of breaks (weather, wins) the Tigers could set a record for home attendance. There could also be a new record for total attendance.

I have a hard time putting into words just how much i am anticipating football season! Slightly less anticipation than the birth of a child, but more than the closing of a big deal.

Me too,brother. Is this not a great time to be a Tiger fan or what?! LOL.

(08-18-2018 08:37 PM)MemphisFan95 Wrote:  

(08-18-2018 08:03 PM)ksigtigerdood Wrote:  The website always shows the section we sit in as not available. In reality, there are plenty of tix left. If you call, they’ll gladly sell you season tix in that section. So, the website map is a little misleading.

While I expect good attendance this year, not having a big time OOC game will hurt. We need to do a better job scheduling. We need to have an Ole Miss, UT, MSU, or even a UCLA, Louisville, Missouri, etc at home each year.

We also need to do a better job of building rivalries within conference. We need to build up the UCF game as a huge rivalry. They need to do more with Navy and Houston, as well. We used to have rivalries with Louisville, Southern Miss and UAB. All of those games generated better sales. We need to build up our in-conference rivalries more.

They have to be willing to do it not power 5 team is lining up to play us right now.


That stuff takes time you cant just say we are rivals now or you look stupid like UCONN and the civil conflict

We keep getting told that Power 5 won't play us (home and home) but that does not seem to be the case for UCF. I'm sure it is more difficult but maybe an Indiana or Baylor?

(08-20-2018 09:02 AM)Bill83 Wrote:  

(08-18-2018 08:37 PM)MemphisFan95 Wrote:  

(08-18-2018 08:03 PM)ksigtigerdood Wrote:  The website always shows the section we sit in as not available. In reality, there are plenty of tix left. If you call, they’ll gladly sell you season tix in that section. So, the website map is a little misleading.

While I expect good attendance this year, not having a big time OOC game will hurt. We need to do a better job scheduling. We need to have an Ole Miss, UT, MSU, or even a UCLA, Louisville, Missouri, etc at home each year.

We also need to do a better job of building rivalries within conference. We need to build up the UCF game as a huge rivalry. They need to do more with Navy and Houston, as well. We used to have rivalries with Louisville, Southern Miss and UAB. All of those games generated better sales. We need to build up our in-conference rivalries more.

They have to be willing to do it not power 5 team is lining up to play us right now.


That stuff takes time you cant just say we are rivals now or you look stupid like UCONN and the civil conflict

We keep getting told that Power 5 won't play us (home and home) but that does not seem to be the case for UCF. I'm sure it is more difficult but maybe an Indiana or Baylor?

Football schedules are set years in advance. In 2015, UCF went 0-12. In 2016, 6-7. Like Boise State and Memphis before them, people are going to stop scheduling them now that they're successful.

(08-18-2018 08:03 PM)ksigtigerdood Wrote:  The website always shows the section we sit in as not available. In reality, there are plenty of tix left. If you call, they’ll gladly sell you season tix in that section. So, the website map is a little misleading.

While I expect good attendance this year, not having a big time OOC game will hurt. We need to do a better job scheduling. We need to have an Ole Miss, UT, MSU, or even a UCLA, Louisville, Missouri, etc at home each year.

We also need to do a better job of building rivalries within conference. We need to build up the UCF game as a huge rivalry. They need to do more with Navy and Houston, as well. We used to have rivalries with Louisville, Southern Miss and UAB. All of those games generated better sales. We need to build up our in-conference rivalries more.

They have been trying to get games with Louisville, UTK, Old Miss, and Vandy for a while now. For some reason, those schools aren't returning our calls.

Rivalries? Sure. I think Houston, Navy, and UCF are turning into natural rivalries. The problem is the Navy series is still young. And we don't play UCF every year. I think the Admin should invest some in promoting the Houston rivalry more.

UAB and Southern Miss were contrived rivalries. What rivalry there was was simply because we were all stuck together for so long. But those schools should not be mentioned in the same sentence when it comes to Louisville. And the statement about better sales is simply myth. Our last 5 years in CUSA, did you know ECU, Rice, and Tulsa all averaged better crowds at LBMS than USM? As for UAB, the teams with better home crowds for us in CUSA were: ECU, Rice, Tulsa, USM, Houston, UCF, and UTEP.

Some bullet point...
In 2008, Rice and Arky St had better crowds than USM.
In 2009, UAB was our poorest attended game.
In 2010, USM was our 5th lowest attendance out of 6 home games.
In 2011, Austin Peay had a better crowd than UAB.
In 2012, UTM and MTSU had better crowds than USM.
In each of those last 5 years in CUSA, UAB and USM fell in the bottom half of our home crowds for the season.

UAB and USM are the same as the schools we have on schedule this year.

(08-20-2018 09:02 AM)Bill83 Wrote:  

(08-18-2018 08:37 PM)MemphisFan95 Wrote:  

(08-18-2018 08:03 PM)ksigtigerdood Wrote:  The website always shows the section we sit in as not available. In reality, there are plenty of tix left. If you call, they’ll gladly sell you season tix in that section. So, the website map is a little misleading.

While I expect good attendance this year, not having a big time OOC game will hurt. We need to do a better job scheduling. We need to have an Ole Miss, UT, MSU, or even a UCLA, Louisville, Missouri, etc at home each year.

We also need to do a better job of building rivalries within conference. We need to build up the UCF game as a huge rivalry. They need to do more with Navy and Houston, as well. We used to have rivalries with Louisville, Southern Miss and UAB. All of those games generated better sales. We need to build up our in-conference rivalries more.

They have to be willing to do it not power 5 team is lining up to play us right now.


That stuff takes time you cant just say we are rivals now or you look stupid like UCONN and the civil conflict

We keep getting told that Power 5 won't play us (home and home) but that does not seem to be the case for UCF. I'm sure it is more difficult but maybe an Indiana or Baylor?

When TN has 1/4th of the higher rated recruits as FL, then I think it would be much easier to get teams to schedule us as UCF.

(08-20-2018 09:02 AM)Bill83 Wrote:  

(08-18-2018 08:37 PM)MemphisFan95 Wrote:  

(08-18-2018 08:03 PM)ksigtigerdood Wrote:  The website always shows the section we sit in as not available. In reality, there are plenty of tix left. If you call, they’ll gladly sell you season tix in that section. So, the website map is a little misleading.

While I expect good attendance this year, not having a big time OOC game will hurt. We need to do a better job scheduling. We need to have an Ole Miss, UT, MSU, or even a UCLA, Louisville, Missouri, etc at home each year.

We also need to do a better job of building rivalries within conference. We need to build up the UCF game as a huge rivalry. They need to do more with Navy and Houston, as well. We used to have rivalries with Louisville, Southern Miss and UAB. All of those games generated better sales. We need to build up our in-conference rivalries more.

They have to be willing to do it not power 5 team is lining up to play us right now.


That stuff takes time you cant just say we are rivals now or you look stupid like UCONN and the civil conflict

We keep getting told that Power 5 won't play us (home and home) but that does not seem to be the case for UCF. I'm sure it is more difficult but maybe an Indiana or Baylor?

Surprised Indiana hasn't tried to set it up yet with how often they recruit here. They got 3 guys out of the city last year, and are looking at many more this year.

(08-20-2018 09:02 AM)Bill83 Wrote:  

(08-18-2018 08:37 PM)MemphisFan95 Wrote:  

(08-18-2018 08:03 PM)ksigtigerdood Wrote:  The website always shows the section we sit in as not available. In reality, there are plenty of tix left. If you call, they’ll gladly sell you season tix in that section. So, the website map is a little misleading.

While I expect good attendance this year, not having a big time OOC game will hurt. We need to do a better job scheduling. We need to have an Ole Miss, UT, MSU, or even a UCLA, Louisville, Missouri, etc at home each year.

We also need to do a better job of building rivalries within conference. We need to build up the UCF game as a huge rivalry. They need to do more with Navy and Houston, as well. We used to have rivalries with Louisville, Southern Miss and UAB. All of those games generated better sales. We need to build up our in-conference rivalries more.

They have to be willing to do it not power 5 team is lining up to play us right now.


That stuff takes time you cant just say we are rivals now or you look stupid like UCONN and the civil conflict

We keep getting told that Power 5 won't play us (home and home) but that does not seem to be the case for UCF. I'm sure it is more difficult but maybe an Indiana or Baylor?

The ones that most around here like to mention - UTK, Old Miss, Vandy, Arkinsaw - won't play us. We have tried and continue to try.

Indiana would be about like Kansas 2 years ago - which turned out to be our lowest attended game that year.

I've thought for a while we should get a H/H with Baylor in football and basketball. I know their program has a bit of a stench around it these days, but I think it would be fine to schedule them.

(08-20-2018 02:15 PM)Tiger87 Wrote:  

(08-18-2018 08:03 PM)ksigtigerdood Wrote:  The website always shows the section we sit in as not available. In reality, there are plenty of tix left. If you call, they’ll gladly sell you season tix in that section. So, the website map is a little misleading.

While I expect good attendance this year, not having a big time OOC game will hurt. We need to do a better job scheduling. We need to have an Ole Miss, UT, MSU, or even a UCLA, Louisville, Missouri, etc at home each year.

We also need to do a better job of building rivalries within conference. We need to build up the UCF game as a huge rivalry. They need to do more with Navy and Houston, as well. We used to have rivalries with Louisville, Southern Miss and UAB. All of those games generated better sales. We need to build up our in-conference rivalries more.

They have been trying to get games with Louisville, UTK, Old Miss, and Vandy for a while now. For some reason, those schools aren't returning our calls.

Rivalries? Sure. I think Houston, Navy, and UCF are turning into natural rivalries. The problem is the Navy series is still young. And we don't play UCF every year. I think the Admin should invest some in promoting the Houston rivalry more.

UAB and Southern Miss were contrived rivalries. What rivalry there was was simply because we were all stuck together for so long. But those schools should not be mentioned in the same sentence when it comes to Louisville. And the statement about better sales is simply myth. Our last 5 years in CUSA, did you know ECU, Rice, and Tulsa all averaged better crowds at LBMS than USM? As for UAB, the teams with better home crowds for us in CUSA were: ECU, Rice, Tulsa, USM, Houston, UCF, and UTEP.

Some bullet point...
In 2008, Rice and Arky St had better crowds than USM.
In 2009, UAB was our poorest attended game.
In 2010, USM was our 5th lowest attendance out of 6 home games.
In 2011, Austin Peay had a better crowd than UAB.
In 2012, UTM and MTSU had better crowds than USM.
In each of those last 5 years in CUSA, UAB and USM fell in the bottom half of our home crowds for the season.

UAB and USM are the same as the schools we have on schedule this year.

Hold up... You can't just cite poorly attended games with Memphis. You have to qualify when they occurred in the season. Because If any of those poorly attended games were in Late October or November, they don't count as indicative of a rivalry or lack thereof. You know Memphians get board with football once Basketball season starts/or we lose a few. Unless we are undefeated, November games are 2/3 (at the most) of opening day, I don't care WHO the opponent is.

By 2008, we had already been to several bowls with Tommy West, and were board with anything less than a BCS/NY6 bowl. PLUS 2008 - 2012 was a combined 15-46 W/L record. So without even looking up the schedules, I'm gonna guess:

A) Rice and Arkansas St were both in September, and USM was in November
B) UAB was in November
C) USM was a late season/November game, or some weird scheduling conflict (Midnight madness?)
D) Austin Peay was probably the home opener, and Porter fatigue had set in by the second game.
E) UTM was opener, Middle was very early, by the time we got to USM, it didn't look like we were gonna make a bowl.

I mean, I know a rivalry should trump time of year, weather, scheduling conflicts... I mean that's what makes it a rivalry, right? We just hadn't grown up into a decent football fan base yet. Maybe we are there now, maybe not.

I think rivalry as it pertains to us is more about the emotion against the other team, not the number of fans. I absolutely HATE Louisville. I really don't care about SMU. I would be at both games, no question. So that has nothing to do with numbers in the stands.

(08-20-2018 03:25 PM)Tiger87 Wrote:  

(08-20-2018 09:02 AM)Bill83 Wrote:  

(08-18-2018 08:37 PM)MemphisFan95 Wrote:  

(08-18-2018 08:03 PM)ksigtigerdood Wrote:  The website always shows the section we sit in as not available. In reality, there are plenty of tix left. If you call, they’ll gladly sell you season tix in that section. So, the website map is a little misleading.

While I expect good attendance this year, not having a big time OOC game will hurt. We need to do a better job scheduling. We need to have an Ole Miss, UT, MSU, or even a UCLA, Louisville, Missouri, etc at home each year.

We also need to do a better job of building rivalries within conference. We need to build up the UCF game as a huge rivalry. They need to do more with Navy and Houston, as well. We used to have rivalries with Louisville, Southern Miss and UAB. All of thÿhhose games generated better sales. We need to build up our in-conference rivalries more.

They have to be willing to do it not power 5 team is lining up to play us right now.


That stuff takes time you cant just say we are rivals now or you look stupid like UCONN and the civil conflict

We keep getting told that Power 5 won't play us (home and home) but that does not seem to be the case for UCF. I'm sure it is more difficult but maybe an Indiana or Baylor?

The ones that most around here like to mention - UTK, Old Miss, Vandy, Arkinsaw - won't play us. We have tried and continue to try.

Indiana would be about like Kansas 2 years ago - which turned out to be our lowest attended game that year.

I've thought for a while we should get a H/H with Baylor in football and basketball. I know their program has a bit of a stench around it these days, but I think it would be fine to schedule them.

Bowen never should have scheduled TN in basketball with a football series.

Just curious, who is in charge of promoting the individual game ticket sales. Does that fall under the AD or is there a marketing person that is in charge of that?

(08-20-2018 10:18 PM)Shooters Wrote:  

(08-20-2018 03:25 PM)Tiger87 Wrote:  

(08-20-2018 09:02 AM)Bill83 Wrote:  

(08-18-2018 08:37 PM)MemphisFan95 Wrote:  

(08-18-2018 08:03 PM)ksigtigerdood Wrote:  The website always shows the section we sit in as not available. In reality, there are plenty of tix left. If you call, they’ll gladly sell you season tix in that section. So, the website map is a little misleading.

While I expect good attendance this year, not having a big time OOC game will hurt. We need to do a better job scheduling. We need to have an Ole Miss, UT, MSU, or even a UCLA, Louisville, Missouri, etc at home each year.

We also need to do a better job of building rivalries within conference. We need to build up the UCF game as a huge rivalry. They need to do more with Navy and Houston, as well. We used to have rivalries with Louisville, Southern Miss and UAB. All of thÿhhose games generated better sales. We need to build up our in-conference rivalries more.

They have to be willing to do it not power 5 team is lining up to play us right now.


That stuff takes time you cant just say we are rivals now or you look stupid like UCONN and the civil conflict

We keep getting told that Power 5 won't play us (home and home) but that does not seem to be the case for UCF. I'm sure it is more difficult but maybe an Indiana or Baylor?

The ones that most around here like to mention - UTK, Old Miss, Vandy, Arkinsaw - won't play us. We have tried and continue to try.

Indiana would be about like Kansas 2 years ago - which turned out to be our lowest attended game that year.

I've thought for a while we should get a H/H with Baylor in football and basketball. I know their program has a bit of a stench around it these days, but I think it would be fine to schedule them.

Bowen never should have scheduled TN in basketball with a football series.

I assume you mean without a FB series?