2005 Football Season Ticket Count Reaches 28,300

STORRS, Conn. --- The season ticket total for the 2005 University of Connecticut football season has surpassed 28,300 with approximately seven weeks remaining before the first home game. The season ticket total for 2003 was 24,000 while there were 28,000 season tickets in 2004, meaning that the 2005 season will mark the largest season ticket base in UConn history.

“We are thrilled with the response for UConn football season tickets,

Congrats UConn! That is very impressive in such a short period of time.

Thanks, dudes.

I think UConns success in such a short period of time as a DI school is phenominal. I realize a lot of it can be attributed to the fact that they are the state university of Conneticut. I expect them to continue to improve quickly along with South Florida which is also a fairly new DI school. This conference has so much potential and I think our bowl situation attest to the fact that people recognize our potential and are trying to get in on the ground floor.

The support the young Uconn football program has gotten is amazing....hopefully staduim expansion isn't too far away for them


Jackson

Congratulations UCONN. That is very impressive. I only hope that Cincinnati can reach that level sometime in the near future.

BE hopes Cincy will get there too with their ticket sales. UCONN has to lower their price a little (highest in the BE) and expand the stadium to create a huge game day experience. Although 40K is good enough but 55K or 60K sounds better. UCONN tickets are very high and some of the best seats require people to fork over some serious donation. Regardless, I hope this year the season ticket will go over 30K. I am sure they will sell out every game. When UCONN is able to get other big time opponents, they need to expand the place.

Anyway, as an UCONN fan, I just hope they will win big on the field and go to another bowl game this year.

[QUOTE](highest in the BE)

Are you sure about that one? I can't imagine any ticket prices being much higher than UL's.

Ul ticket info

Founders (1) $650 per seat $192
Partners (2) $325 per seat $192
Associates (3) $175 per seat $192
Preferred Faculty/Staff/L-Club* $175 per seat $180
Preferred No Smoking/No Alcohol $100 per seat $192
Crunch Zone - Limited Availability $75 per seat $192
Family Plan (Includes 4 Seats) N/A $648
Family Plan No Smoking (Includes 4 Seats) N/A $648
Reserved N/A $192
Reserved No Smoking N/A $192
Faculty/Staff/L-Club* N/A $180

1 - Founders: $650 Annually + $12,500 (payable over 5 years)
2 - Partners: $325 Annually + $6,750 (payable over 5 years)
3 - Associates: $175 Annually + $2,500 (payable over 5 years)

Are your tickets much higher than these?

[quote="Yuleofell"] [QUOTE](highest in the BE)

Are you sure about that one? I can't imagine any ticket prices being much higher than UL's.

Ul ticket info

Founders (1) $650 per seat $192
Partners (2) $325 per seat $192
Associates (3) $175 per seat $192
Preferred Faculty/Staff/L-Club* $175 per seat $180
Preferred No Smoking/No Alcohol $100 per seat $192
Crunch Zone - Limited Availability $75 per seat $192
Family Plan (Includes 4 Seats) N/A $648
Family Plan No Smoking (Includes 4 Seats) N/A $648
Reserved N/A $192
Reserved No Smoking N/A $192
Faculty/Staff/L-Club* N/A $180

1 - Founders: $650 Annually + $12,500 (payable over 5 years)
2 - Partners: $325 Annually + $6,750 (payable over 5 years)
3 - Associates: $175 Annually + $2,500 (payable over 5 years)

Are your tickets much higher than these? [/quote]
You have seats in your stadium that actually permit smoking. I don't think I've ever been to a sporting venue that allowed smoking in my entire life. And that's indoor or outdoor.

We are in Kentucky remember. We grow a lot of tobacco in the state.

USF is around 20,000 season tix.
cost for the FIVE home games are
160,145,130,120,110,99 per seat
You do have to make annual donations for all seats except the $99 end zones ones
The different annual payouts are
10,000
5,000
3,500
2,000
1000
500
250
100
annual donations over $1000 get up to 8 tix, others get up to 4

UCONN season ticket prices:

Type ---- Donation ---- Cost per seat for season

Club ---- $1400 ---- $240
Chairback ---- $625 ---- $210
Preferred --- ???? ---- ????
Reserved ---- ???? ---- $150
Family ---- ???? ---- $150
Young Alumni - ???? ---- $96
Students ---- ???? ----- $42

Visitors - ????

I dont know the donation for those.

Additional info can be found here: <a href='http://www.uconnhuskies.com/MainLinks/tickets/05_FB_STIXAP.pdf' target='_blank'>UCONN season tickets</a>

Yuleofell Wrote:We are in Kentucky remember. We grow a lot of tobacco in the state.

True and you also have incredibly low tobacco taxes too.

Mighty impressive, UConn. Mighty impressive.

With the fan base you have .... my only question is ... why didn't you guys go 1-A a looonngggg time ago???

Cubanbull Wrote:USF is around 20,000 season tix.
cost for the FIVE home games are
160,145,130,120,110,99 per seat
You do have to make annual donations for all seats except the $99 end zones ones
The different annual payouts are
10,000
5,000
3,500
2,000
1000
500
250
100
annual donations over $1000 get up to 8 tix, others get up to 4

Then why do you draw 5K per game?Don't make me post the pictures from last years Memphis game.Cubanbull?full of bull!
Congrats Uconn.

hbengal Wrote:

Cubanbull Wrote:USF is around 20,000 season tix.
cost for the FIVE home games are
160,145,130,120,110,99 per seat
You do have to make annual donations for all seats except the $99 end zones ones
The different annual payouts are
10,000
5,000
3,500
2,000
1000
500
250
100
annual donations over $1000 get up to 8 tix, others get up to 4

Then why do you draw 5K per game?Don't make me post the pictures from last years Memphis game.Cubanbull?full of bull!
Congrats Uconn.

Is it necessary to have a Memphis fan take a shot at South Florida in every freaking thread!?

MemTGRS Wrote:Mighty impressive, UConn. Mighty impressive.

With the fan base you have .... my only question is ... why didn't you guys go 1-A a looonngggg time ago???

State politics, sadly.

Murph1 Wrote:

MemTGRS Wrote:Mighty impressive, UConn.&nbsp; Mighty impressive.

With the fan base you have .... my only question is ... why didn't you guys go 1-A a looonngggg time ago???

State politics, sadly.

We know the feeling.

Quote:We know the feeling.

-- Unfortunatly so do does Umass....who may be able to pull of a similar transformation if they ever got the chance


Jackson

Good job UConn!