SP Times: Bogus bulls tickets bring warning

[Jim Johnson]

Bogus bulls tickets bring warning

By Times Staff Writer

Published October 12, 2007

TAMPA

Nearly 50 fans were caught trying to get into the University of South Florida's upset of West Virginia University with counterfeit tickets.

For Saturday's game against the University of Central Florida, athletic officials are warning buyers to consider their source.

"They were pretty good duplications of our tickets," said Chris Freet, a spokesman for the USF athletic department. "But we have ways to tell the difference."

The surest way to get official tickets is through the university or Ticketmaster, he said. Other popular methods, including scalpers or through eBay, are at the fan's own risk.

Students have more opportunity than ever to get tickets, since the athletic department expanded the student section from 8,000 to 12,501 to make it the largest in the Big East Conference, Freet said.

"Ideally, we want to get everybody in to the games," he said. "But if you buy bogus tickets, there's nothing we can do for you."

Robbyn Mitchell, Times staff writer

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[mutt]

So that's how we tell that we hit the big time...

[MarketingGuy]

Interesting.

[theman123]

yeah i heard from a guy about these and he said it was in section 134 which was the phoney tickets

[D1DDY]

sell the fakes to UCF fans