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Any word on ticket sales?

they suck

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3153883

That story is a week old. Who knows if they have improved since then.

Honestly, if we sold more than 1k-2k tickets for this game I'd be surprised. We averaged what 17k this year? Does anyone think more than 10% of the crowd that watches our home games is going to make the trek to Mobile on a Sunday night against a Conference USA foe?

I hope I'm wrong, but I'd really be surprised.

A closer location and a more managable day (like saturday) would make for much better sales. With when and where our bowl is this year, you can't blame the fans for not buying tickets. That is a lot of travel time and money to get down there.

With the game being on ESPN and being the only football to watch on a Sunday night, it does give us a little more exposure than the other 2 bowls games. Also, from what I've heard around here, it gives the best experience to our players as well.

thewebboy wrote:A closer location and a more managable day (like saturday) would make for much better sales. With when and where our bowl is this year, you can't blame the fans for not buying tickets. That is a lot of travel time and money to get down there.

I guess. We'll be there, of course. And by my estimates, it will probably cost us as much to go to the GMAC Bowl as it did to get to the Temple game this year.

And if you can't make the game, consider the actions of our own Class of 61, who donated his pair of tickets. This can be done through the Web site and those sales, I'm certain, are attributed to B-G-S-U!

Hopefully ticket sales will pick up. 3,000 seems like a very feasible amount.

The game is on a Sunday. You would only be missing one day of work/school.

Anyway of figuring out how this year's ticket sales are doing? I'm already going, but if they are really low, I may buy a ticket for some kid down there.