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Tickets to Away Games Still Available Through RU Ticket Office

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PISCATAWAY, NJ – The Rutgers Athletics Ticket Office has announced that all seven home games for the 2008 football season have sold out. With the announcement, it extends the sell-out streak to 17 consecutive games for the Scarlet Knights at home, the longest streak in school history.

Single-game tickets that were not utilized by visiting teams went on-sale to season waiting list customers Thursday, July 31.  By Friday morning, five games had sold out.  Tickets to the Fresno State and Morgan State games sold out early this week.

There is still a slight chance additional single-game tickets may become available if visiting teams return a portion of their contracted allotment. Away game tickets will be available to alumni and the general public beginning August 6th at 12:01 a.m. To purchase tickets, please log on to http://tickets.scarletknights.com

they need to expand their seating capacity

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Holy ****! Talk about double posting.

We would sell out every game too if we only had 44,000 seats in our stadium.

has usf averaged 44k over last 17 games?

when reading your post I have to remind myself that you are a USF Alum and fan................... at least you say your a fan.

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Both Rutgers and UConn have smaller stadiums which makes it easier to sell them out. I kind of like having something so large that it is hard to sell out-- since we are starting to see it sell out last year. If we start getting sellouts everygame--- oh boy--- $$$$$$$$ for the program.

and while it would be nifty to have our own OCS--- odds are that the seating capacity would be around the same as these two other places. So who gets left out in the process? Can we really keep 12501 student seats in that type of scenario? I doubt it. Sometimes I think we have people who look the gift horse in the mouth when it comes to RJS

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Rutgers Football Sold Out for 2008 Season Text Size:   

 

Tickets to Away Games Still Available Through RU Ticket Office

Posted on 8/5/2008 6:44:48 PM  PRINT THIS PAGE  E-MAIL THIS PAGE   RSS

PISCATAWAY, NJ – The Rutgers Athletics Ticket Office has announced that all seven home games for the 2008 football season have sold out. With the announcement, it extends the sell-out streak to 17 consecutive games for the Scarlet Knights at home, the longest streak in school history.

Single-game tickets that were not utilized by visiting teams went on-sale to season waiting list customers Thursday, July 31.  By Friday morning, five games had sold out.  Tickets to the Fresno State and Morgan State games sold out early this week.

There is still a slight chance additional single-game tickets may become available if visiting teams return a portion of their contracted allotment. Away game tickets will be available to alumni and the general public beginning August 6th at 12:01 a.m. To purchase tickets, please log on to http://tickets.scarletknights.com

they need to expand their seating capacity

They are... http://www.scarletknights.com/stadium/index.html and its not cheap

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Both Rutgers and UConn have smaller stadiums which makes it easier to sell them out. I kind of like having something so large that it is hard to sell out-- since we are starting to see it sell out last year. If we start getting sellouts everygame--- oh boy--- $$$$$$$$ for the program.

and while it would be nifty to have our own OCS--- odds are that the seating capacity would be around the same as these two other places. So who gets left out in the process? Can we really keep 12501 student seats in that type of scenario? I doubt it. Sometimes I think we have people who look the gift horse in the mouth when it comes to RJS

dont  disagree big is better

when usf builts their  own stadium it would be foolish to built it smaller than 100000 seats

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Football Fantasy at Rutgers

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Published: August 7, 2008

Ever since Rutgers, New Jersey’s largest state university, began its campaign several years ago to become a big-time football power, bad things have happened. Less-glamorous sports teams  tennis, swimming and fencing among them  were downgraded to intramural status to save on the budget, and more and more money has gone to football rather than academics.

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Go to The Board » This single-minded, ask-no-questions push for football stardom has now reached a crisis, brought to a head by a report in The Star-Ledger of Newark that a campaign to raise $30 million in private contributions for a $102 million, 14,000-seat expansion of the university’s football stadium is on the rocks. Only $2 million has been pledged so far, and Rutgers already has committed itself to borrowing $72 million, leaving it millions short.

Added to this are rumblings of cost overruns, an excess of football scholarships and a pay package for the football coach of more than $2 million a year, including a $250,000 side deal channeled through a private company. Another secret agreement would allow the coach to walk away from his job without paying the $500,000 penalty stipulated in his contract if the stadium expansion is not completed on time.

Finally, someone in Trenton is waking up. The comptroller’s office said it would investigate Rutgers’s spending practices. Perhaps in reaction, the university’s president, Richard McCormick, who has long been a shameless cheerleader for the high-stakes football program, announced a new committee to determine if the athletic department was doing anything wrong. A spokesman concedes that Rutgers may have made mistakes.

In a logical world, Rutgers officials would swallow their egos and admit that their football fantasy was ill conceived, especially in view of New Jersey’s huge debt. They would scale down the stadium project, especially since the university couldn’t even fill the existing stadium when the team had losing seasons.

But logic has not been a noticeable trait among the leadership at Rutgers, nor with the State Legislature, where the largest measure of blame lies. Rutgers is a public university, and its spending should be monitored closely by state officials. But Gov. Jon Corzine and most of the state legislators are big Rutgers football fans, and that does not make for much of a check on spending.

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Both Rutgers and UConn have smaller stadiums which makes it easier to sell them out. I kind of like having something so large that it is hard to sell out-- since we are starting to see it sell out last year. If we start getting sellouts everygame--- oh boy--- $$$$$$$$ for the program.

and while it would be nifty to have our own OCS--- odds are that the seating capacity would be around the same as these two other places. So who gets left out in the process? Can we really keep 12501 student seats in that type of scenario? I doubt it. Sometimes I think we have people who look the gift horse in the mouth when it comes to RJS

dont  disagree big is better

when usf builts their  own stadium it would be foolish to built it smaller than 100000 seats

whoa-- 100,000 seats?

that would be enormous. I think there are maybe four schools in the country that have that big a stadium (Michigan, Penn State, USC, Tennessee) others are close-- but that would cost a fortune.

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Both Rutgers and UConn have smaller stadiums which makes it easier to sell them out. I kind of like having something so large that it is hard to sell out-- since we are starting to see it sell out last year. If we start getting sellouts everygame--- oh boy--- $$$$$$$$ for the program.

and while it would be nifty to have our own OCS--- odds are that the seating capacity would be around the same as these two other places. So who gets left out in the process? Can we really keep 12501 student seats in that type of scenario? I doubt it. Sometimes I think we have people who look the gift horse in the mouth when it comes to RJS

dont  disagree big is better

when usf builts their  own stadium it would be foolish to built it smaller than 100000 seats

i Like your thinking but 100K...... maybe 70k with the option to move up.

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As far as cost for a 100,000 seat stadium.  I think it'll be cheaper to build a time machine to travel back to the 30's or 40's and build it rather than building it now.  Have you seen the price of commodities lately...WHOA!

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COLLEGE FOOTBALL

No. 21: Chris Dufresne's top 25 rankings countdown

TONY KURDZUK / The Star-Ledger / US PRESSWIRE

Expectations are high for Rutgers Coach Greg Schiano, who guided the Scarlet Knights to an 8-5 record last season.

Expectations have been raised at Rutgers.

August 8, 2008

The Times' Chris Dufresne unveils his preseason college football top 25, one day (and team) at a time:

No. 21 Rutgers

No. 22: Chris Dufresne's top 25 rankings... No. 23: Chris Dufresne's top 25 rankings...No. 24: Chris Dufresne's top 25 rankings countdown

No. 25: Chris Dufresne's top 25 rankings countdown

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Even Mr. Magoo, a Rutgers graduate, might consider this a shortsighted ranking, given the Scarlet Knights didn't even crack the top 25 of the USA Today coaches' preseason poll.

Oh, Rankman, you've done it again!

You knew about Magoo and Rutgers, right? As the story goes, the creator of the bumbling cartoon character wanted Magoo to have attended college at a place that "embodied the old school spirit."

So Mr. Quincy Magoo, perilously perched, waved the Rutgers flag from his jalopy.

For years, the football program mimicked Magoo's clumsy escapades, but no more. The Scarlet Knights these days are darn near a football factory.

After advancing to only one bowl game in its first 131 years -- who could forget the Garden State in '78? -- Rutgers has now gone to three straight.

Expectations under Greg Schiano are so high that last year's 8-5 season almost seemed a disappointment.

Rutgers will contend for the Big East Conference title again and put up big numbers. The program is so self-sufficient now that in the off-season it thumbed its nose at an offer to play Notre Dame.

Last year, Rutgers became the first school in NCAA history to have a 3,000-yard passer, 2,000-yard rusher and two 1,000-yard receivers.

The Scarlet Knights move forward without star tailback Ray Rice, who opted out for the NFL, and need to replace three starters on the offensive line, but the foundation is in place.

Kordell Young, coming off a knee injury, could emerge as Rice's successful successor. The Scarlet Knights return senior quarterback Mike Teel and both 1,000-yard receivers, Tiquan Underwood and Kenny Britt.

The schedule is tricky. Rutgers took on a tough home opener against Fresno State and faces challenging conference road trips -- West Virginia (Oct. 4), Pittsburgh (Oct. 25) and South Florida (Nov. 15).

A fourth straight bowl trip for the Magoos, though, is clearly in sight.

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The countdown so far: No. 25, Notre Dame; 24. California; 23. Fresno State; 22. Florida State; 21. Rutgers.

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