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Notsince1985

Notsince1985

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From the Herald

We have sold 28,800 season tickets so far, and UM expects to sell 30,000 by the start of the season. We sold 22,000 last year. UM only gave Florida 12,500 tickets, much less than the 30,000 Paul Dee gave in '03. Also, UM has 9,500 student tickets for the UF game, which I think is much higher than usual.

I know there will be more than 12,500 UF fans, but it'll be nice that they're not 25,000 in one bloc. Also, I know some UF fans bought season tickets to get tickets to the UF game, but still, 30,000 season tickets is good.
 
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Hey any improved is great to see. The tide is turning, unless the NCAA pulls some bull **** we will have packed houses 70 percent of the time within 2 years.
 
We have two young, gung-ho, aggressive guys in charge of our football program and athletics programs, respectively. No surprise.
 
Notsince1985 said:
From the Herald

We have sold 28,800 season tickets so far, and UM expects to sell 30,000 by the start of the season. We sold 22,000 last year. UM only gave Florida 12,500 tickets, much less than the 30,000 Paul Dee gave in '03. Also, UM has 9,500 student tickets for the UF game, which I think is much higher than usual.

I know there will be more than 12,500 UF fans, but it'll be nice that they're not 25,000 in one bloc. Also, I know some UF fans bought season tickets to get tickets to the UF game, but still, 30,000 season tickets is good.
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That's pretty impressive considering Miami only has a little over 10,000 undergrads.
 
Shogungts said:
Notsince1985 said:
From the Herald

We have sold 28,800 season tickets so far, and UM expects to sell 30,000 by the start of the season. We sold 22,000 last year. UM only gave Florida 12,500 tickets, much less than the 30,000 Paul Dee gave in '03. Also, UM has 9,500 student tickets for the UF game, which I think is much higher than usual.

I know there will be more than 12,500 UF fans, but it'll be nice that they're not 25,000 in one bloc. Also, I know some UF fans bought season tickets to get tickets to the UF game, but still, 30,000 season tickets is good.
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That's pretty impressive considering Miami only has a little over 10,000 undergrads.
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In the past I think we've had about 6,000 tickets put aside for students. It is impressive since FSU's student section is only 16,000 for 41,000 total students and they only fill it for Miami, Clemson, Florida or other "big" games. UF is about 22,000 for 49,000 total students.
 
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Season ticket sales are up, but still well below the high water mark at the Orange Bowl.
 
bobbydigius said:
Hey any improved is great to see. The tide is turning, unless the NCAA pulls some bull **** we will have packed houses 70 percent of the time within 2 years.
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We didn't even have this during our great run in early 2000s.
If it wasn't FSU, VT, or Washington the place was empty.
 
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DeadPoets said:
bobbydigius said:
Hey any improved is great to see. The tide is turning, unless the NCAA pulls some bull **** we will have packed houses 70 percent of the time within 2 years.
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We didn't even have this during our great run in early 2000s.
If it wasn't FSU, VT, or Washington the place was empty.
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Usually, but not always. We had 65,000 for East Carolina in '03, we had 68,000 for BC in '02, we had 68-70 for FAMU in '02. There are other examples, but usually the only big attendance games were FSU or VT.
 
I've heard that gator fans unable to get tickets through their allotment have been snatching up season tickets. May help explain part of increase
 
DeadPoets said:
bobbydigius said:
Hey any improved is great to see. The tide is turning, unless the NCAA pulls some bull **** we will have packed houses 70 percent of the time within 2 years.
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We didn't even have this during our great run in early 2000s.
If it wasn't FSU, VT, or Washington the place was empty.
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THIS.


I think sometimes cats get carried away revising history. Even in our best years, the average games were 55-60K tops for average teams like Maryland, Temple, BC, Tulsa, and random games. Only team we really sold out was a few times a year for the FSUs, NDs, etc. **** I remember VT in 2000 and the OB wasnt even sold out for that. Which really schocked me because we were on FIRE.
 
abc123puck said:
I've heard that gator fans unable to get tickets through their allotment have been snatching up season tickets. May help explain part of increase
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I hear that every time we play ufaag or fsu, but I doubt those broke *** rednecks are snapping up UM season tickets in droves. I think they're buying tickets on the scalping sites if they're buying them.
 
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Notsince1985 said:
From the Herald

We have sold 28,800 season tickets so far, and UM expects to sell 30,000 by the start of the season. We sold 22,000 last year. UM only gave Florida 12,500 tickets, much less than the 30,000 Paul Dee gave in '03. Also, UM has 9,500 student tickets for the UF game, which I think is much higher than usual.

I know there will be more than 12,500 UF fans, but it'll be nice that they're not 25,000 in one bloc. Also, I know some UF fans bought season tickets to get tickets to the UF game, but still, 30,000 season tickets is good.
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Don't forget Dee was a swamp scu--wait can't speak badly of the dead. Dee went to a school north of Orlando.
 
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CANE4LIFE said:
DeadPoets said:
bobbydigius said:
Hey any improved is great to see. The tide is turning, unless the NCAA pulls some bull **** we will have packed houses 70 percent of the time within 2 years.
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We didn't even have this during our great run in early 2000s.
If it wasn't FSU, VT, or Washington the place was empty.
Click to expand...

THIS.


I think sometimes cats get carried away revising history. Even in our best years, the average games were 55-60K tops for average teams like Maryland, Temple, BC, Tulsa, and random games. Only team we really sold out was a few times a year for the FSUs, NDs, etc. **** I remember VT in 2000 and the OB wasnt even sold out for that. Which really schocked me because we were on FIRE.
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The OB was soldout for VT in '00 (77,410), just like it was for VT in '02. It wasn't soldout for VT in '04 though and that game was for the ACC title.

I do agree with you on the other stuff. We usually got 45-55,000 even during our 10-12 win seasons in the late 80s, early 90s and early 00s for non name opponents. Sometimes we got less, such as Temple, Rutgers and Troy in '01. There were times (East Carolina in '03, BC in '02, FAMU in '02) where we got way more for non-name opponents though.
 
abc123puck said:
I've heard that gator fans unable to get tickets through their allotment have been snatching up season tickets. May help explain part of increase
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A little increase, sure. I'd bet UF fans bought some season tickets, but not thousands.
 
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