36,000 Season Tix Sold (Most in 7 Seasons)
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Does anyone else remember when we AVERAGED 67,000 football attendance with a team that had a losing record in the SEC? Before our football program was ruined from lack of support by our AD, while spending all of UK's football money on the minor NON-REVENUE sports? When we would have had MORE money for the minor none-revenue sports IF football had gotten the support it had EARNED?
No, I didn't think so, carry on with your hero worship.
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I could not be happier for the program. we had season tickets s for over forty years and dropped them after the remodel of the stadium x ed our guy who put up our tent.
I knew something was up this year when I went online the first day single game season tickets were available. My wife and I only do the first six rows on the press box side due to our backs requiring permanent seat backs .
We don’t care if they are in the last section facing the end zone . That’s all we will buy . For the past five years that worked easily for four games s a year . This year only got two games .
May b a loss for us (as was the remodel) but GREAT for the program and we can c better on TV anyways particularly controversial replays which are not shown at the stadium.
win win for both UK and us.
I knew something was up this year when I went online the first day single game season tickets were available. My wife and I only do the first six rows on the press box side due to our backs requiring permanent seat backs .
We don’t care if they are in the last section facing the end zone . That’s all we will buy . For the past five years that worked easily for four games s a year . This year only got two games .
May b a loss for us (as was the remodel) but GREAT for the program and we can c better on TV anyways particularly controversial replays which are not shown at the stadium.
win win for both UK and us.
Where did I worship Barnhart? This is more of bragging about the fans who are purchasing season tix with the state of the world being what it is.
Have you ever criticized him? Back before the flood of money from the OTHER SEC football programs.
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Why? Because the OTHER SEC football programs saved out butt by flooding us with money?
Yes , I do and I stayed with them through every game. Our
motto was “we have lost a lot of games , but we’ve never lost a tailgate party “
in fairness it’s a different world now with a lot of old folks either dying off or being worn out with it . Todays young folks have too many other activities like traveling baseball, soccer etc.
U really can c the game better on TV
Yes, Joker was kept two years too long . However , Stoops has done as good a job as I think any coach in the country in building our program cleanly . If we had had a young Nick Saban for a few years he would b gone by now to a traditional top five or ten program.
Just enjoy it .
as the Beatles said ,
Let it b, let it b
To no one's surprise, winning makes everyone want to go to games more.
If Kentucky's football program is in ruins with 2 out of the last 4 seasons being 10 wins, then sheesh
I just watched a replay of the UK-Iowa bowl game for the sixth time.
We are 6 and 0!!! Very close game, one TD early and one TD late with a couple of field goals, all crucial. Great game by Wandale and CRod, what a tough kid Wandale is.
We are 6 and 0!!! Very close game, one TD early and one TD late with a couple of field goals, all crucial. Great game by Wandale and CRod, what a tough kid Wandale is.
It was in big time ruins with the TWO two win seasons AND the FIVE years in a row without an easily attainable bowl game. Before the other ADs that were paying attention flooded everyone with money. Stoops found us, our AD didn't find him, and even then he only won two games his first year after adding three four stars to our miserly roster.
"They sposed to be SEC."
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No, because that’s the distant past. You harp on it so much. It’s like clockwork. Let it go brother…it will be freeing!
I think UK likely makes more from 55K attendance & the added suites revenue than they would with the old 67-68K seatng capacity.
If you are talking about season ticket sales in 2009 we had LOTS and LOTS more.
- guy with a terrible opinion trying to bring down a thread about over half of the arena being full 40+ days before kickoff
Project your problems elsewhere
It is all about the money isn't it? I will bet UK gets as much or more money from fans that don't attend games as those that do.
In other news maybe the NCAA isn't oblivious to the cheating at Thug U as it seems. Heavy on the maybe.
It was FULL for every game for a team with about half that many wins. With 6000 more seats. I don't have a problem except for the misdirected credit for our revival from the dead, I am very happy with what Stoops has done here.
It wasn't full of season ticket holders nor half full of season ticket holders.
Your whole point is negative, nonsensical and delusional.
Mitch doesn't see your whining on here. Email him or send him a letter
If we beat Florida in game 2, those available tickets for South Carolina, MSU, and UL will be all gone within weeks.
That was a different era. Very few schools fill their stadiums unless a quality and well known opponent comes to town. Ticket prices, concessions, and bad parking options have made it a less desirable product.
But we averaged capacity with a team that finished 3-5 in the SEC. With 6,000 more seats than we have now.
I remember when we averaged 49,000 for many years in the 90s, so let’s not act like 67,000 was ever the norm for UK.
I was at the 1994 NE Louisiana game where we only had 32,000 fans and I was at the 1995 game against Cincinnati where we only had 25,000 fans. So if you think the brief attendance run we had at the tail end of Brooks’ tenure is normal, then you must be new to being a UK fan.
The pattern the last couple of decades has been for UK’s attendance to spike when there’s a lot of positivity around some combination of a couple of factors like: how we finished the prior year, a coaching change we’re excited about or a QB we’re excited about. That spike lasts about three years and then starts to tail off.
We averaged 40,647 in 1996 and then jumped up to capacity crowds for three years starting in 1997 thanks to the combination of Mumme and Couch.
Average attendance then slowly died down to a low of 57,330 in 2006. Starting in 2007, we saw another 3 year spike of capacity crowds because of excitement around Woodson and the 2007 team.
The other pattern you see is that if there is a ticket price increase and we end up having a disappointing season that same year, then attendance drops significantly the following year. It happened after 2010 and after 2015. You seem to forget that in 2015, our 61,000 seat stadium averaged crowds of 61,295.
Long story short, attendance at UK has waxed and waned due to normal football factors, not because of any nonsense about a lack of support from Barnhart.
That's quite an accomplishment today, gas and food prices are way up, alcohol too I guess. Combine that with 4k and higher 70+ inch TVs it's a little surprising as many people show up as they do.
This new rule they brought up about multiple free transfers may start a trend of every game having lots of empty seats. Of course quite a few of these kids have attended multiple HSs and not lost any time.
This new rule they brought up about multiple free transfers may start a trend of every game having lots of empty seats. Of course quite a few of these kids have attended multiple HSs and not lost any time.
Couch was a once in several generation QB that we got because he was in state. And naturally he attracted a lot of other talent. And let's not go into ancient history, the popularity of football and it's growth into the MONEY COW is a fairly recent phenomenon.
The probation set UK back a great deal, and I think Brooks was an excellent coach that did an unbelievable job with the support he had. Support which included NOTHING but the bare necessities until the wheels fell off, while the other SEC schools were making hay. Name ONE thing above the bare necessities that our AD spent on football for his first DECADE while it slowly went underground, while he spent the money FOOTBALL earned in his pursuit of his silly trophy-----and his highest finish was still behind two other SEC schools. Whoopee, and I follow the minor sports more than most fans-----but sorry, not the rifle team, although they did a great job.
Stoops saw the opportunity AND what the coming money cow was, after a slow start had a great class (for UK) with ten four stars in 2014, with Barker the kingpin. But he got injured and others fell out, so it took a while, even though the loss of revenue FORCED CW upgrades. UK athletics wouldn't have made it without the obscene money from the OTHER SEC football programs. Which really started Stoops on his way, AFTER the mods also caused a generous benefactor to build a modern football center.
AND the unbelievable money from the OTHER football programs with ADs that didn't fall asleep sent Stoops and UK on its way. Anyone that thinks our AD has been good for our money cow is either out of touch or stupid, sorry that is the only thing I can conclude.
And now we have NIL to contend with, and looks like more problems with our AD ahead.
Enough time wasted for now.
I'm sure you are correct. However, it could have easily been made to 80K in the stadium and even more luxury suites. The stadium was initially designed to be expanded over time - are you ready for this - to 110,000 potential. It was initially designed to become a complete bowl of the first level the same all around with the potential to add a third level. The full bowl would have brought capacity to the 80,000 range and then a third level was going to be up to 15,000 per side. I never thought it would get to 110K, but I did think it would have easily been able to get to the 80K level - which would make it 8th largest in current SEC stadiums - that would be about the size of South Carolina Stadium. Our current stadium size is relatively close to Ole Miss, Miss. State and Missouri. Only Vanderbilt has a smaller seating capacity than UK.
One last point that is interesting. UK's football attendance was in the top 25 for several years - before the Joker fiasco and then the stadium redo. But if you look outside of the SEC how many college stadiums are significantly larger around the country? 15. How many stadiums are significantly larger in the SEC? 9 currently, 11 when Texas and Oklahoma join. How many SEC stadiums similar in size to UK ((3,000 or less)? 3. UK's stadium overall is basically, 30 - several college stadiums are within 3,000 seats of UK's size - roughly 20.
I go to a lot of the games but haven't had season tickets since me and my crew can't guarantee being able to hold down a tailgate spot every weekend. We like to mix it up and pick games to go to the week of. I don't give a rip if I end up paying more. That bothers me less than having season tickets and not being able to go to every game. The new mini packs UK has put out are a great idea and perfect for me and my group.
I don't know the exact year we added more bleacher EZ seats to bring capacity up to around 62K, but I think capacity was 58K for most of the 90's.
OK, but I don't see the relevance to today when we don't sell out at 62K game in/out. Net, seems like we're in a good place.
Actually for three straight seasons 06-10 we averaged 69k+ and top 25 in attendance.....and yes I very much remember seeing 71k in Commonwealth
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