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- Cant wait to see the REAL Rocky runnin around this year!

Then you are going to waiting a long time.

Does anyone know how many tickets USF has sold to date for the UCF game?

They have not gone on sale yet  :-/!

Incorrect!  They went on sale a few weeks ago (1 800-GoBulls)....$30.00 ea. they will be mailed out as soon as USF receives them from UCF.

I know message boarders think they know everythig, but they don't.  I just bought my season tickets July 28th and inquired about the UCF game.  I was told it will not go on sale until mid to late August.  Just want to put you on.

Apparantly YOU  are one of those message boarders who thinks he knows everything, but doesn't.

My credit card was charged for the UCF tickets right after I odered them from the USF Athletic Dept, as were the tickets for other road games I ordered (seperate invoices).

I haven't received mine yet.

U of Louisville Donor/Season Ticket Info.

http://uoflsports.cstv.com/tickets/lou-tickets-m-footbl.html

PITT Info:

http://pittsburghpanthers.cstv.com/tickets/pitt-tickets-m-footbl.html#a4

http://pittsburghpanthers.cstv.com/panther-club/index.html

Pitt Graduate Student Program

   * Graduate students have the option of purchasing one (1) student ticket at $49 in the general admission student section or up-to two (2) tickets in the Graduate Student and Recent Graduate Reserved Section at a 50% discount ($99 each).

Recent Pitt Graduate Ticket Program

   * Opportunity to purchase up-to two (2) Recent Graduate discounted tickets in the Graduate Student and Recent Graduate Reserved Section at a 50% discount ($99 each).

   * Recent Graduate discount is valid for one (1) year following each student's undergraduate graduation

   * Graduates/Recent Graduates must purchase tickets at the Petersen Events Center with ID.

Does anyone know how many tickets USF has sold to date for the UCF game?

They have not gone on sale yet  :-/!

Incorrect!  They went on sale a few weeks ago (1 800-GoBulls)....$30.00 ea. they will be mailed out as soon as USF receives them from UCF.

Special offer from USF Athletics. USF is celebrating the 10th season of Bulls football with a very special and very limited time offer. For the next 48 hours (until 9AM Eastern Time Thursday August 10, 2006) you can get a Bulls season ticket for the 1997 inaugural season ticket price of just $72! This is a savings of $47 per season ticket! For the next 48 hours, there is no limit on the number of season tickets you can buy at this special price.

Come enjoy Bulls games against Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Connecticut, Rutgers, McNeese State and Florida International and help USF celebrate 10 years of Bulls Football.

Seating for this special offer will be in Raymond James Stadium section 226. You must purchase by 9AM Thursday August 10, 2006 to receive this one time special rate!

That's terrible...thankfully  you and your wife and children are ok...sorry to hear that your cats weren't as fortunate.

Best of luck.

I got that figure from a reliable source... a current USF document.

Off the top of my head it was 22,000 Full time students (12 Hrs min) , (approx 1,000 from out of state, and approx 1000 foreign students.)  As I recall it said there are 7,000 graduate students

BULLieve he is doing fine ... his father was a coach at Lakeland High ... will see, was wondering the same thing.

Got emails back and forth from his mother, but have not heard anything for a long time now.

Will see - Thanx for reminding me. I actually thought about it a while back.

Stan Hixon is a coach with the Washington Redskins.

I am sure that since tix are so easy to get now, they may just be getting them game day ... and good seats at that.

Hopefully it is on their future budgets.

Go BULLS !!!

Could it just be that they really don't care that much about football?

My point is if they really wanted to go to the games cost of the tickets really isn't going to stop them.....they don't have to become a donor until they can afford it, they don't have to sit in the best seats until they can afford them....many will piss away more than the cost of tickets at the local watering hole.

There are cheap seats that are equal to or better than the seats they had as students....that's better than what they could get at other schools.....ask a Notre Dame grad how they go about getting football tickets after they graduate.

It seems like I 've spent 1/2 of my life at USF (currently working on my 3rd degree from USF) and I can tell you USF has changed so much since that day when the school decided to begin football.

45,000 students (-/+) for the fall? wow...

Changes that I have noticed:

1) the dorms: man, that whole area is completely different.

2) the university atmosphere, everything is SO much better than the early 90's

3) school pride, so many more people are wearing Bulls' stuff nowadays. You could hardly see that in the old days.

4) Locally and nationally, I think USF has done well also. The image of a commuter school is disappearing.

I wonder if football never got started, if those old and crusty fuddy-duddies who opposed football at USF had won out, would the school be like it is today?

...somehow I think not. A university is more than academics; it has a pulse. And without great athletics (winning A-I football, etc.), there is only so much growth to be had. (Just my opinion)

The number of full time students is approximately 22,000 and is almost entirely made up of students who are residents of Florida

The university is what it is today because of the solid foundation that John Allen built, and the growth of the states population.  While football adds to the atmosphere of the school it isn't as important to the growth of the university as you seem to believe.  Just my $.02 worth.

It doesn't appear that the Class of 06 has been knocking the doors down to get season tickets.

Correct me if I am wrong, but a college graduate usually needs to get a JOB and establish themselves before they can consider buying season tickets. This is my first year as a season ticket holder. I am a graduate of the Class of '03, but I went on to law school and now I am FINALLY in a position where I could buy season tickets. I think that this is the case for many recent graduates; need to start a family/career/finish schooling before buying those tix.

Season tickets start at just $119.

If what you say is on the mark...then the classes of 01, '02 and '03 aren't exactly knocking the doors down either.

Remember  to buy season tickets you also must give a donation.  Also, let's presume that those people might want a companion ticket.  SO, double that cost, add a $100 donation, and then you're getting the effect.  Now, tell someone that's making say $40k, with a car payment, insurance, apartment, utilities, and [highlight]entertainment [/highlight]and misc. living expenses to insure they carve out roughly $350 [highlight]plus service charges, and tax.[/highlight]  Bring your total to over $375 minimum for what's undoubtly the worst seats in the house.  That's a car payment, a rent payment, etc.  That's a person that's roughly making $1,200 every two weeks and the expenses I mentioned above, presuming they try to live comfortably, will be minimally $1,800, before weekly [highlight]entertainment,[/highlight] groceries, gas, clothes, etc.

It isn't that easy.  Oh, and don't forget your alumni association dues, and....it all adds up.

Excuse me but, I believe you are wrong...there isn't any donation required to purchase season tickets for $119 each.

If a college grad making $40 grand can't afford $119 a year for ($238 for a pair) seats (Entertainment)...they have a serious problem.

I don't know where you get your tickets (maybe you don't have them), but the "service''/handling fee on my season tickets is only $5/account and there isn't any tax added to the price of the tickets.

Really hoping that people get excited and we can get closer to 18K ... but it is a good sign that we have been atleast at the same level the past 3 years ... but with the Big East(BCS) you would think more fans would jump on board.

We have Miami coming and they better get their seats before the good ones are gone for The BULL PEN !

Hope we get an announcement soon about a future game(s) on contract.

Go BULLS !!!

Where did you read that?  He said he expected to exceed 2005's total.  Whether that's one tix more or 2000 more it remains to be seen.

Actually something people forgot to mention that when practice started last year season tickets sold were around 15,000.  I've heard that as the season draws near they always get a last minute surge from fan interest, and last minute purchasers.  The fact we're already well over 16,000 tells me that 17,000 is highly likely (although my contact had told me the other day we were close to 17,000- :-X), and who knows, 18,000 or close to it could be an outside possibility.

Mr Louk doesn't seem to agree with you.

According to Mr Louk there was a slight drop in ticket sales from 2004 to 2005.

Where did you read that? He said he expected to exceed 2005's total. Whether that's one tix more or 2000 more it remains to be seen.  

The Tampa Tribune.. it's been quoted a number of times on this thread already.

USF assistant AD Jim Louk said Tuesday about 16,000 season tickets already had been sold and he expects to pass last year's numbers. USF sold 16,261 season tickets in 2005 and 16,374 in 2004. In USF's nine seasons, the Bulls have sold at least 16,000 season tickets, including a record 18,500 in the 1997 inaugural season.

It doesn't appear that the Class of 06 has been knocking the doors down to get season tickets.

Correct me if I am wrong, but a college graduate usually needs to get a JOB and establish themselves before they can consider buying season tickets. This is my first year as a season ticket holder. I am a graduate of the Class of '03, but I went on to law school and now I am FINALLY in a position where I could buy season tickets. I think that this is the case for many recent graduates; need to start a family/career/finish schooling before buying those tix.

Season tickets start at just $119.

If what you say is on the mark...then the classes of 01, '02 and '03 aren't exactly knocking the doors down either.

It doesn't appear that the Class of 06 has been knocking the doors down to get season tickets.

Does anyone know how many tickets USF has sold to date for the UCF game?

And about a 10k per game average increase.

I hope McNeese and FIU travel as well as FAMU and UCF.

Anyone know how many helmets CJL has had to sign so far for the $500 Season Ticket  promotion?

Really hoping that people get excited and we can get closer to 18K ... but it is a good sign that we have been atleast at the same level the past 3 years ... but with the Big East(BCS) you would think more fans would jump on board.

We have Miami coming and they better get their seats before the good ones are gone for The BULL PEN !

Hope we get an announcement soon about a future game(s) on contract.

Go BULLS !!!

Actually something people forgot to mention that when practice started last year season tickets sold were around 15,000.  I've heard that as the season draws near they always get a last minute surge from fan interest, and last minute purchasers.  The fact we're already well over 16,000 tells me that 17,000 is highly likely (although my contact had told me the other day we were close to 17,000- :-X), and who knows, 18,000 or close to it could be an outside possibility.

Mr Louk doesn't seem to agree with you.

According to Mr Louk there was a slight drop in ticket sales from 2004 to 2005.

USF colors are Green and Gold...white shouldn't be a major color in the home uniform.

Don't most sports utilize some element of white in their home jerseys?  MLB practically mandates it.  What is the big deal?  The good guys (home team) often wears white for many schools and teams...

We're talking college football here not  MLB, NFL, NBA, little league, or prep school football.

Which NCAA Division 1A Football teams wear white jerseys for home games?

USF colors are Green and Gold...white shouldn't be a major color in the home uniform.

Why is USF now wearing Michigan State / Ohio green.

Could big dollars in a coaches pocket be the reason Nike is allowed too change the school colors?

There are other's in the same boat.

http://www.herdnation.com/forum/showthread.php?p=264931

You must really be upset, then, that UCF has white pants as part of their uniforms, since they're Black and Gold.

Upset..LOL

I'll have to take your word for it...I've only seen them play once and that was at the RJ...As as I recall they were wearing white jerseys and gold pants

I like the color of the jerseys, but it's not the correct shade of green for USF.

IMO the swoosh shouldn't be next to the iconic u on the pants.

FWIW Department: I like last years Green color better......

White pants with the green jerseys SUCK!

^^^^^^^

Thought I was the only one.  Looks bad.

way to pi$$ in the cornflakes, dillweeds.......

USF colors are Green and Gold...white shouldn't be a major color in the home uniform.

Why is USF now wearing Michigan State / Ohio green.

Could big dollars in a coaches pocket be the reason Nike is allowed too change the school colors?

There are other's in the same boat.

http://www.herdnation.com/forum/showthread.php?p=264931

Student sections should be on the visitors side of the field (132 to 139) not behind the endzone.

IMO the way they have the seating priorty set up is a major factor in why season ticket sales/attendance are as poor as they are....but then what do I know.