Has this ever happened before?
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Texas is just trying to confirm their status as the little brother of the state.
Tennessee's Home Ticket Package
- In 1987, Tennessee completed the Thompson-Boling Arena for basketball. At a capacity of 24,535, it was designed to be a bigger venue than UK's Rupp Arena to the north. Unfortunately for the Volunteers, they were never able to come close to selling out the arena for men's basketball, even on good years. During the annual UK-UT game in Knoxville, Kentucky fans made good use of the vacant seats by buying up the extras. The sheer number of UK fans threatened to overtake the UT fans on-hand. In response to this embarrassing dilemma, the UT ticket office decided to do away with selling individual tickets for the UK game, instead bundling the ticket with 3 or 4 other games. This in effect forced UK fans to pay 3 or 4 times the amount of money just to see the UK game. Many UK fans took this offer, and donated the remaining tickets from the package to charity.
Cool! BBN travels well.
Somewhat related, Gonzaga fans are known for buying season tickets of these lower-level WCC teams. This gives them first priority for the WCC Tournament in Vegas. Sad thing about the Gonzaga fans buying up all these tickets is these small arenas are still usually half-empty. I assume partially because the tickets have been purchased, but the Zag fans don't show up to watch the other road games. The WCC Tournament is basically the Gonzaga Invitational - they have 90-95% of the fans in the arena.
I am pretty sure the cost of season tickets for most WCC teams is a donation of 2 canned goods during the annual holiday food drive.
They are Charmin Ultra Soft.
It’s going to be fun watching them lose in the SEC and resort to academic smack talk vs Kentucky, Auburn, Bama, etc.
Their precious little Longhorn Network will be gobbled up and shit out by the SEC (and ESPN).
Hell, let em keep it. It just shows swimming and re-runs of long past Longhorn glory.
Holy Tebow, is there more TTU fans at the Texas game than UT fans???
I guess @SheriffBufordTJustice really never will show his face around here again. 🤣
That is hilarious, haha. UT's basketball fan support is oddly pathetic ... being a "football school" is not an excuse for not having good fan support for a pretty good program, and the same is true for the reverse (i.e., using "basketball school" as an excuse). Only example I can think of that is similar:
I went to the Illinois/Iowa game in Iowa City back in 2005, when Illinois was #1 and undefeated in February and Iowa was a Bubble team. Iowa's arena sat 15,500, and estimates of the crowd breakdown were anywhere from 4,500 (30%) to more than 6,000 (40%) Illini fans in attendance. Given that this total included about 150 members of the Orange Krush (Illini student section) and the orange stuck out like a sore thumb against the black shirts of Iowa fans ... it looked and seemed a LOT worse than that.
The next two years, Iowa put tickets to the Illinois games on sale weeks after other home games, tried to tie it into season ticket packages and only sold it as a package with other home games to try to prevent Illini fans from buying tickets. Steve Alford's massive pain of a wife apparently threw an absolute bltch fit at how much orange there was in the arena and demanded they "stop it," LMAO. That is about the closest I can think of.
Meanwhile, compare that to Northwestern who gladly welcomes in Illini fans to take up 60-70% of the arena so they can get one of their few sellouts of the year. 😆
I went to the Illinois/Iowa game in Iowa City back in 2005, when Illinois was #1 and undefeated in February and Iowa was a Bubble team. Iowa's arena sat 15,500, and estimates of the crowd breakdown were anywhere from 4,500 (30%) to more than 6,000 (40%) Illini fans in attendance. Given that this total included about 150 members of the Orange Krush (Illini student section) and the orange stuck out like a sore thumb against the black shirts of Iowa fans ... it looked and seemed a LOT worse than that.
The next two years, Iowa put tickets to the Illinois games on sale weeks after other home games, tried to tie it into season ticket packages and only sold it as a package with other home games to try to prevent Illini fans from buying tickets. Steve Alford's massive pain of a wife apparently threw an absolute bltch fit at how much orange there was in the arena and demanded they "stop it," LMAO. That is about the closest I can think of.
Meanwhile, compare that to Northwestern who gladly welcomes in Illini fans to take up 60-70% of the arena so they can get one of their few sellouts of the year. 😆
Texas Tech is 5- 1 against the other 3 top teams in the Big 12. Swept Baylor and UT. And was within grasp of doing it to Kansas, also.
They stopped selling tickets so it wouldn’t be 70/30.
Yup lost in 2OT in Kansas.
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