Will Georgia sellout streak extend into 10th season? (Updated)
(Updated 6 p.m.)
ATHENS – Georgia, which has sold out every home football game the past nine seasons, needs to sell a few hundred more tickets to keep that streak alive next week.
Less than 600 tickets remained available Wednesday for the Bulldogs’ Sept. 4 season opener at Sanford Stadium against Louisiana-Lafayette, UGA associate athletic director Alan Thomas said.
He said those tickets are part of a large block returned by Louisiana-Lafayette, which was contractually entitled to 4,500 tickets for the game. The Ragin’ Cajuns wound up needing only 490 tickets, Thomas said.
Georgia has no tickets currently available to any of its other five home games, and Thomas said he expects the remaining tickets to the Louisiana-Lafayette game to be sold. They are available on-line at georgiadogs.com or by phone at 877-542-1231. The price is $45 apiece.
If the game sells out, that would extend Georgia’s streak of consecutive home sellouts into a 10th season. According to associate athletic director Claude Felton, the Bulldogs have sold out every home game since Mark Richt became coach in 2001 — a streak of 57 consecutive games. The last UGA home game not to sell out, Felton said, was the Nov. 25, 2000, game against Georgia Tech.
Generally, opponents can return unsold tickets from their allotments as late as three weeks before a game. Louisiana-Lafayette’s contract called for the school to receive an allotment of 4,500 tickets to sell, but the Ragin’ Cajuns took only 2,095 of the allotted tickets initially, leaving Georgia with the other 2,405. Then Louisiana-Lafayette returned an additional 1,605 tickets prior to the three-week window allowed in the contract, Thomas said.
When opponents return tickets, Georgia puts them on sale to the general public. It’s possible there will be returns from other opponents this season; Idaho State (Nov. 6) would seem the most likely candidate. But Idaho State’s contract calls for an allotment of 2,500 tickets and so far none have been returned, Thomas said.
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Tim, you are an idiot....
August 25th, 2010
5:20 pm
Tim, you know as well as I do that the University of Georgia will sell out for the 58th consecutive game with its home opener. Yet, you wrote your dishonest article title. You should be ashamed of yourself, considering how good UGA has been to you. If you were barred from campus, it would serve you well.
UGA D'ass
August 25th, 2010
5:22 pm
Y’alll….Don’t be listnin to them bee nerds. I rather git me a ooga hat and a chaw than give to that ther gawga scool. Onli thing maters is a guud ball teem Go dawwwgs sci em woof woof.
coondawg69
August 25th, 2010
5:22 pm
Obviously GT Alum isn’t one of those world changing CEO’s as he’s on here way to much…. glad to see she knows how to use a search engine.
Bucky Belue hand it to Herschel
August 25th, 2010
5:22 pm
Cause theyre playing a high school team & its miserably hot in those damn aluminum stands come to mind first, traffic & parking are a nightmare & its not worth my time, need any more reasons???
UGA D'ass
August 25th, 2010
5:24 pm
got me a gud edcashun at gawga…masti degre an noow luk at mi…i work at th waaafle houz!!!
UGA D'ass
August 25th, 2010
5:26 pm
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Meme
August 25th, 2010
5:30 pm
Duh, think Labor Day weekend has something to do with it?
woofn
August 25th, 2010
5:37 pm
who wants to make a bet that it doesn’t sell out? Not me…
woofn
August 25th, 2010
5:38 pm
Tanyard Branch…enough already with the penis envy!
GT disgusts me
August 25th, 2010
5:39 pm
Uga d’ass your not fooling anyone. Get back to WOW.
T-MAN
August 25th, 2010
5:42 pm
Hey I agree with the comment that Ga has the more attractive coeds….more of them….I always get laid when they come to town…got a drawer full of red panties…What I don’t agree with is the abuse of Russ The Temporary Mascot,panting that a$$ white and putting a red sweater and red panties on the poor dog is just wrong….Where’s the outrage,doesn’t THUGA have a vetenarian school.
GT Alum's boyfriend
August 25th, 2010
6:18 pm
You tell ‘em baby!
Ummmph, you so fine!
AUGTUHOUCSULBUSD
August 25th, 2010
6:19 pm
This is a HIGH SCHOOL GAME!!!!!! It competes with OTHER HIGH SCHOOL GAMES!!!!!!
If UGAG wanted to schedule a COLLEGE game where one COLLEGE plays another COLLEGE, it could have done so. Don’t complain when you are a college that failed to schedule another college to play a “”"”REAL GAME”"”" . THIS ISN’T A REAL GAME. Its a SCRIMMAGE. I call it “G-Day-2″ and tickets should cost the same as “G-Day-1″ back in April…..
GT Alum's boyfriend
August 25th, 2010
6:21 pm
somehow my first post didn’t get through.
basically, I was saying y’all just jealous cause my man is so fine and he’s all MINE! you down-low dudes can’t have him. you skanky women can’t have him. But I got him and he’s mine. All MINE!
GIVE ME A BREAK
August 25th, 2010
7:08 pm
Why do UGA fans have to drink so much alcohol before football season? THWG
Meyer
August 25th, 2010
7:14 pm
Wait until FLORIDA gets a hold of your a$$.
Athens Police
August 25th, 2010
7:15 pm
We’ll be busy that weekend. And so will the garbage trucks.
Long way till Nov Techies
August 25th, 2010
7:57 pm
Tech fans talking about Georgia playing a real game When thier only real game is against GEORGIA. Its all they care about..They are OBSESSED with GEORGIA! The Georgia game is the Only game Tech can sell out! hahahahaha
Big L
August 25th, 2010
8:28 pm
Am I the only damn one who can’t take this wait any freaking more. Please god, let play football tomorrow. For the love of all that’s holy, please let the Dawgs play.
Delbert D.
August 25th, 2010
8:36 pm
Big L – I think we are being punished. We must have done something very bad.
Hobnailbooty
August 25th, 2010
9:21 pm
last!!
Russ
August 25th, 2010
9:26 pm
No and nobody cares.
Ben There
August 25th, 2010
9:31 pm
GT Alum, I wasted time reading you first epistle in an attempt to find one factual sentence. Couldn’t confirm where you were raised. Also have some doubts about you having parents. May be because they don’t want people to know about you. Why don’t you go up to the first floor and ask her.
Non-UGA College Graduate Dawg Fan
August 25th, 2010
9:34 pm
Wow! What a total tool GT Alum is. It boggles my mind to see how freely you speak of the lowly, uneducated class, who did the unthinkable and didn’t go to college. It is shocking. Who do you think you are? You obviously have plenty of education, but zero class. That is something that can’t be learned on North Avenue.
You obviously have a lot of living and learning to do. I know that you probably haven’t done much meaningful socializing thus far in your life, but I imagine that the day will come soon where reality will set in and someone will knock you off of the lofty perch that you currently are sitting on. You need it.
GT BABY
August 25th, 2010
9:41 pm
OF COURSE THEY’LL SELL OUT…..GEORGIA’S A WAL-MART SCHOOL!
1980 Rules!
August 25th, 2010
10:10 pm
I still get excited thinking about that 1980 team with buck, herschel and lindsey. those were the days.
la lafayette?
August 25th, 2010
10:13 pm
Drive all the way to athens, pay all that money to park and eat to watch a bunch of uga thugs play some creampuff? Get real—ga will beat that worthless team by 50-60 points. Save the money and go to a bar instead and get liquored up, watching real football.
Of COURSE
August 25th, 2010
10:18 pm
GT never has a sold out game because half of GT’s student body is terrorists. Seriously, who would feel safe in that joke of a stadium with all the “dirka dirkas” screaming in the stands. And stop with all this bs “tech fans are more worried about getting jobs and continuing their education,” shut the hell up. Y’all sound so stupid when you pull your “academic card” on a blog that’s about football. Keep sucking on CPJ’s DD’s you little pansies.
liars and damm liars
August 26th, 2010
5:43 am
No doubt UGA is the football institution and Tech is the academic institution why all the idle chatter?
GT FAN GO JACKETS
August 26th, 2010
8:34 am
Alex, loved your comment. The truth hurts doesn’t it dogs! Just look at the 2010 AP Top 25 Rankings and USA Today Poll. Ga. Tech beats UGA. on BOTH. But to be fair UGA is the number one party school. Great education vs Great party? ummm
Damon Evans
August 26th, 2010
8:55 am
Can someone please help me find a good martini?
GT fan, don't forget the waffle house
August 26th, 2010
9:12 am
GT fans ……….GT grads also run the Waffle House.
Now, you GET ME TWO OVER MEDIUM EGGS ( w.o. salmonela) and bacon ……..NOW!!
GT grad says ” um, yes, sir. THANK YOU,SIR and PLEASE COME BACK, SIR”.
Go Dogs
One Navy Hornet pilot to another
August 26th, 2010
9:16 am
As the two Navy Hornets flew over the Varsity and spilled all of the old GT alumni Cokes, they were heard by the Dobbins tower that “um ah, geeeeeez, we STILL CANNOT sell out our stadium with CPH here.”
They were last seen steaming for the Navy airbase in Yemen ………… to pump jet fuel and DEMOTED and GROUNDED and WINGLESS.
Go Dogs.
JDAWG
August 26th, 2010
9:36 am
gator-man………are you serious about the UGA schedule! Have u seen your GAY TOR schedule for the last 10 years of non-conference! You must watch a ton of football? ( that’s the one where they tackle each other and score touchdowns)
UGA = Clemson = Perennial Underachievers
August 26th, 2010
10:52 am
JDAWG
you are 3-17 versus Florida since 1990
you seriously should shut your mouth
Wreckem
August 26th, 2010
10:58 am
Tim
Whats the update on the ticket status? We are all on pins and needles! Seriously, it will sell out. This story would be a waste if it wasn’t for all the trash talking. @ Of Course, I’m a GT Alum and a native Georgian, the “terrorists”, a small portion of the student body, don’t come to the football games. Fortunately they are pretty reclusive, like most of my fellow Techies. And we could sell out a football game if we lowered our academic standards to let less inteligent student athelets in our school. Remeber student comes first, not football. If ugag could get funds from something other than sports then maybe one day they can be repected across the world like the institute. But I think Alumni would stop donating then.
AFDawg
August 26th, 2010
11:30 am
GT Alum, This is a football blog. UGA is one of only about 100 level 1 research universities out of every college in the US — blah, blah, blah. Get a life man. We are on here to talk about sports — stick to the subject!
Sell it out!
August 26th, 2010
12:31 pm
The dawgs will end up selling out all their games, while lowly tech has trouble selling about even the big conference games. UGA–in a different class than tech, which will be stuck in the minor leagues, as usual.
DawgDayAfternoon
August 26th, 2010
12:43 pm
@ GT Alum – you should be careful calling out the spelling mistakes of others. Check out your very first post; it’s not “Smithosonian”. But you’re smarter than most, so you already knew that.
Nick
August 26th, 2010
12:53 pm
As to be expected, the last game not being a sell-out was the Techerhead game. The closest rival, an in-state rival to boot and they can’t even muster enough of their lousy fans, whose shirts and hats don’t even match the colors of their team’s helmets or jerseys (still can’t figure that one) to make it to a game an hour away. My high school stadium was bigger than Tech’s. PATHETIC!
Losers
how2fish
August 26th, 2010
2:18 pm
How many tickets still to sell in the Bugs matchup with the mighty mighty South Carolina State?
uga_girl
September 4th, 2010
5:34 pm
Tech ppl crack me up… UGA is shocked when we dont finish top 10…Tech Seniors ” We dont care about Championships just beating UGA” We beat your best team with our worse last year..literally rolling around laughing at the Tech Day dreamers…
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