UT Season Ticket Demand Down

#4
#4
My parents got a letter saying they need to shell out a $10K donation in order to keep theirs for next year. Not to mention, the donation has to go to the football program, rather than for a general purpose or specific purpose outside of the program.
 
#5
#5
They'll be up for sale for face value w/ no obligatory donation shortly--watch! They did the same thing last year.
 
#6
#6
There is no way that UT typically sells 100,000 seats as season tickets, which is what they would have to sell to be 4% down from a normal year and have 4,000 seats left. The 4,000 seats part has to be wrong.
 
#8
#8
Economy being part of it I'm sure.. but also, Hammy seems to be trying to make going to Neyland some sort of high brow, rich-only event. The next stadium improvement will be selling big hats and mint juleps!

Seriously though, even that aside... does anyone know what the impact of charging the students for tickets is having? Because aside from the 4k unsold season tickets, I'd imagine that at LEAST a few thousand casual students would be much less likely to pay to go to the games.
 
#10
#10
fulmersbelly said:
Economy being part of it I'm sure.. but also, Hammy seems to be trying to make going to Neyland some sort of high brow, rich-only event. The next stadium improvement will be selling big hats and mint juleps!

Seriously though, even that aside... does anyone know what the impact of charging the students for tickets is having? Because aside from the 4k unsold season tickets, I'd imagine that at LEAST a few thousand casual students would be much less likely to pay to go to the games.
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#12
#12
The Dude said:
Someone posted an article in the spring stating sales were up for season tickets.
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Both are correct. Did you take Statistics at UTK? Dr. Guess could explain this and make it sound logical in his Kermit the Frog voice, lol. :p
 
#14
#14
It appears to me it is effecting the more "generous" donors less than those in the end zones. Last year about this time, I was able to get season tickets in CC on the 45 yard line. This year, those tickets are already gone, but they are already selling single game tickets in the upper deck end zone to most of the games. They didn't do that until much later in the year in 2008.
 
#16
#16
How many tickets do they release for season tickets? 40-50k are students right? The only way 4% = 4000 is if all 100k seats are available for season tickets. I don't think that is the case. If 4000 are available 4% is more than likely closer to 10% decline. I'm assuming that UT releases 40-50k season ticket packages for the public / boosters to buy.
 
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