The Charleston Daily Mail Wrote:The numbers are in, and they are impressive again.

West Virginia hoped it was going to get a bump in football season ticket sales with the arrival of offensive wizard Dana Holgorsen, and then his subsequent elevation in June to head coach.

Well, with Norfolk State coming to Mountaineer Field on Saturday in Week 2, the preseason sales number got a boost from another designed play-call -- a return to a three-game mini-package for the Norfolk State, LSU and Louisville games.

Matt Wells, WVU's sports marketing director, said this week that the 2011 season-ticket sale was 34,734 -- down 20 sales from last season. However, the return of a mini-plan for the first time since 2006 resulted in 3,902 sales.

That's the Mountaineers' best mini-plan effort since 2000, when 6,708 were sold -- but the full season sales that year totaled only 29,454.

WVU's full season sales record was 38,160, for 2008, when WVU was coming off three consecutive 11-win seasons and a Fiesta Bowl upset of Oklahoma.

This year's total of 38,636 marks the most preseason tickets sold at WVU since 1998, when the Mountaineers had 33,696 full-season and 7,510 partial plans -- and the visitors included Ohio State, Maryland and Miami (Fla.).