Student support for UCF remains abysmal
Padrick Brewer
Issue date: 9/14/07 Section: Sports
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The UCF Football team is going to play its first game in Bright House Networks Stadium tomorrow in what might be the biggest game ever in UCF history.
That's great. And it has the potential to be even better if the stadium is packed with UCF students and fans. It's just too bad that will probably never happen.
UCF will be using a lottery system to allot student tickets for home games, but the early results show that it doesn't work.
Assistant athletic director Joe Hornstein said that every application for a ticket was fulfilled
It's not a lottery if everyone wins.
For tomorrow's game against Texas, UCF couldn't give enough tickets away. Of the about 8,000 student tickets allotted for the lottery, only 7,636 were applied for.
That is completely unacceptable.
Unless the amount of "lottery" tickets is changed for the remaining home games, UCF athletics should plan on having significantly more than 360 tickets to give away to its staff.
UCF will be playing the No. 6 Longhorns on Saturday, and there were unclaimed student tickets.
I am not sure that has sunk in.
Against the national champions of 2005, a campus of 45,000 students could not claim 8,000 tickets.
This is what is wrong with having a national powerhouse come into Orlando to play. UCF fans, as a whole, just don't care.
Do you think there would be any available seats if this game were in Austin, Texas? Absolutely not.
Just wait until next year, when the game is in Texas, and the entire stadium will be filled.
And color coordinated.
It turns out that UCF fans can't even seem to decide what color to wear to the game tomorrow.
Penn State can get 110,000 fans to "white out" Beaver Stadium, but UCF fans can't even decide what color to wear to a student section that they can't even fill.
What could be worse is that UCF might not lose this game.
The Knights pulled out a win in Raleigh, N.C., against the N.C. State Wolfpack on Sept. 1.
That's great. And it has the potential to be even better if the stadium is packed with UCF students and fans. It's just too bad that will probably never happen.
UCF will be using a lottery system to allot student tickets for home games, but the early results show that it doesn't work.
Assistant athletic director Joe Hornstein said that every application for a ticket was fulfilled
It's not a lottery if everyone wins.
For tomorrow's game against Texas, UCF couldn't give enough tickets away. Of the about 8,000 student tickets allotted for the lottery, only 7,636 were applied for.
That is completely unacceptable.
Unless the amount of "lottery" tickets is changed for the remaining home games, UCF athletics should plan on having significantly more than 360 tickets to give away to its staff.
UCF will be playing the No. 6 Longhorns on Saturday, and there were unclaimed student tickets.
I am not sure that has sunk in.
Against the national champions of 2005, a campus of 45,000 students could not claim 8,000 tickets.
This is what is wrong with having a national powerhouse come into Orlando to play. UCF fans, as a whole, just don't care.
Do you think there would be any available seats if this game were in Austin, Texas? Absolutely not.
Just wait until next year, when the game is in Texas, and the entire stadium will be filled.
And color coordinated.
It turns out that UCF fans can't even seem to decide what color to wear to the game tomorrow.
Penn State can get 110,000 fans to "white out" Beaver Stadium, but UCF fans can't even decide what color to wear to a student section that they can't even fill.
What could be worse is that UCF might not lose this game.
The Knights pulled out a win in Raleigh, N.C., against the N.C. State Wolfpack on Sept. 1.