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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493 comments Add your comment
Damon Evans
August 25th, 2010
11:06 am
Its because I gouged you hicks for $10,000 in 2008
and now, you aint got no mo money left to spend.
Jason
August 25th, 2010
11:06 am
Penn State sells out because there isn’t anything else to do there….hours from anything interesting.
UGA=Yawn
August 25th, 2010
11:07 am
We don’t need to sell out our tickets to be ranked higher than you in all the polls!!!!
jack stilton
August 25th, 2010
11:08 am
Because it is hot and the other team isn’t worth watching!
Bremen Dawg
August 25th, 2010
11:09 am
The heat and noon start time.
dan
August 25th, 2010
11:09 am
LIKE ALWAYS UGA FANS ,PLAYERS, COACHES ALWAYS RUNNING THERE MOUTH
Goudy
August 25th, 2010
11:10 am
Jack had to get off of his cousin before he could type his answer.
ryan
August 25th, 2010
11:12 am
Tim Louisiana Lafayette of course its not going to sell out this is a another attempt buy AJC to look for any negative story on UGA are you kidding me you did story on this i have about had it this bias news paper I hope the AJC goes out of business .
SOOHSO
August 25th, 2010
11:12 am
Who cares???
Bruce Mac
August 25th, 2010
11:12 am
Dang Cardinal, you really are that ignorant. I said we had our troubles in football but this article is about the fact that all UGA games will be a sellout. Read the article and get off your high horse, we already know that the Great Florida Gators walk on water.
SimpleDawg
August 25th, 2010
11:12 am
Hey GT ALUM…..you’re full of yourself…..and full of $#!+.
All UGA grads and/or fans aren’t idiots, and all GIT grads/fans aren’t captains of industry.
I do know many GIT grads, and by and large they are social retards…..much like you appear to be, and they are very impressed with themselves….just like you, and I’m certainly happy that I don’t have to sit beside them at any venue.
So, go _____ yourself!
HugoStiglitz
August 25th, 2010
11:13 am
UGA is a football school. GT is an engineering school. Why do so many of you sound surprised that more people go to football games at UGA?
Blackberry Cobbler
August 25th, 2010
11:13 am
It’s LL, it’s hot and it’s $45 a piece.
$45……………….. no thanks, I’ll stay home.
Dawg Fan
August 25th, 2010
11:13 am
Never seen a tech graduate with a tech shirt on. They are smart enough to wear something they can sneak out of the stadium with when the kicking starts. GO DAWGS!
Patrick
August 25th, 2010
11:14 am
Those tickets would be gone like the wind had the opponent been able to sell their portion. My guess is that they’ll be gone within a few hours…
Dawgmess
August 25th, 2010
11:15 am
GT Alum, you ought not to brag too much about who all graduated from GIT. Somebody will surely embarrass you with Jimmy Carter.
15 wins in 50 years
August 25th, 2010
11:16 am
How many Tickets are available for the Tech South Carolina State game?
The Mole
August 25th, 2010
11:16 am
Too Hot.!
Brick TAmblin
August 25th, 2010
11:17 am
@ Saban,
Did you forget getting beat by a small Louisiana school a few year years ago??? hah! oh yeah and losing to the Dawgs in OT at home??
PULPWOOD
August 25th, 2010
11:17 am
To Nick Saban: 2 time National Champion- Shut your pie hole! Georgia’s beaten Alabama 3 of the last 4 they’ve played.
UGA=Yawn
August 25th, 2010
11:17 am
Again . . . . We don’t need to sell out our tickets to be ranked higher than you in all the polls!!!!
JB
August 25th, 2010
11:18 am
Hugo…. Tailgating, visiting with old friends, and enjoying a beautiful fall day before a Football game is as much of a part of it as the Game. Athens is prime time for that, and Tech is not. I ‘ve seen and experienced both. No comparison.
antidog
August 25th, 2010
11:19 am
Because UGA sucks
JB
August 25th, 2010
11:19 am
UGA=Yawn………………..It’ll be short lived.
Paul Johnson
August 25th, 2010
11:20 am
because UGAy!!! Punch them in the face!!!
Larry O
August 25th, 2010
11:20 am
Went by Dominoes to pickup a pizza and saw a GT license plate on a Ford Explorer. Also saw the Dominoes sign on top of it. GT may be an engineering school, but they do not say what type of engineering they do.
Pizza engineering must be one of their majors. Home ec engineering as well.
Glory Glory
August 25th, 2010
11:21 am
Tech fans are always wondering why nobody gives their team any respect and love.
But you don’t have to go far (like their rival’s blog) to see that Tech fans/students/alum take the approach that they are far superior, and insist that anybody that didnt go to Tech is a failure at life. UGA produces Doctors, Lawyers, Teachers, Coaches…. the list of leaders goes on and on. Tech produces wonderful Engineers, and IT geeks. Not everybody wants to be an Engineer or an IT geek.
YOU chose Tech, Tech did NOT chose you. I never even considered applying to Tech, yet Tech folks act like I was denied admission.
“To Hell With Georgia Tech??”……..nope……. I prefer to say “GO DAWGS!!!!!”
Paul Johnson
August 25th, 2010
11:22 am
Dawgmess, Jimmy Carter didn’t graduate from there. Only took a few math classes. Get your facts right before you bark something stupid.
Paul Johnson
August 25th, 2010
11:23 am
What’s the good word?
gdawginkalamazoo
August 25th, 2010
11:24 am
Penn State sells out because they are in Beaver Stadium in Happy Valley.
Happy Beaver on a Saturday?
dougmo2
August 25th, 2010
11:24 am
Dawgmess, Jimmy Carter grduated from the Naval Academy. At least know where former presidents went to school.
Paul Johnson
August 25th, 2010
11:24 am
“HugoStiglitz
August 25th, 2010
11:13 am
UGA is a football school. GT is an engineering school. Why do so many of you sound surprised that more people go to football games at UGA?”
More beer involved haha
JB
August 25th, 2010
11:24 am
This is no joke. There are a lot of ex Tech Football players working for Air Tran in Baggage handling. This is no joke. These guys are no better prepared to be ” Captains of Industry” ( LMAO)
than ANY division 1 program. Listen to them being interviewed after a game…..then picture them in a Boardroom. Vacuuming maybe LOL.
nerds! nerds! nerds!
August 25th, 2010
11:25 am
Tickets are sold out. Most of you people don’t realize 600 ul-lafayette tickets were sent back to UGA to sell to the public. The UGA fan base did sell out their tickets- three different times now. Some of you people on here are idiots.
Go Dawgs
This sucks. There's no other way to put it.
August 25th, 2010
11:26 am
There are 3 main reasons for this year’s home schedule crappiness:
- Tennessee is down, so that game doesn’t mean much
- we never get Florida at home (we’re the home team in Jax this year)
- Michael Adams trying his best to start games as early as possible to fight the “party school” rep (the first 2 home games start at noon)
Man with the Plan
August 25th, 2010
11:26 am
it’s 99.9999 sold out, but it’s not 100% sold out because La Laf doesn’t have a big enough fan base and so they returned the tickets.
And Georgia’s fan base isn’t excited about that game.
AtlantaNative62
August 25th, 2010
11:27 am
Hellllloooooo?!?!?!?!? It is the economy. People are hurting and even good ol’ UGAly is not immune to people’s need to keep their homes. Ask NASCAR how they are doing this year. Folks. Things are bad and this president hasn’t a clue about what to do next.
AFDawg
August 25th, 2010
11:29 am
Gator Man, Nobody on this blog really thinks your a gator fan because none of your comments make any sense in thta regard. For instance, Florida should be the last school to criticize about out of conference opponents. While Georgia has been playing OSU, Boise State, Central Michigan, Marshall, Troy State, etc. — who has Florida played? All of the schools I mentioned have been their conference champs and can jump up and surprise a team. And don’t give me the Florida State crap — that’s no better than us playing GA Tech every year. Also, you play Miami now about as frequently as we play Clemson.
Paul Johnson
August 25th, 2010
11:30 am
GOOOOOOOOOOO RAGIN CAJUNS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m ready for some good dog jambalaya!!!
Tech Fans are pathetic
August 25th, 2010
11:30 am
At GA TECH Alum…
Once again we hear the same old tire excuses for why Tech can’t sell out their stadium.
1. We are too busy working.
2. We don’t have non-alumni in the stands.
The myth that 70% of UGA fans in the stands have no connection with the school is complete non-sense. Consider that roughly 82,000 tickets are reserved for Georgia fans (remaining goes to visitors) and 15,000 student tickets are sold each year. This means that nearly 20% of the available seats are occupied by students who ATTEND the university.
To suggest that only 30% of the stadium has a connection to the university and the rest are a bunch of uncultured rednecks is a sad attempt to deflect the fact that your fan base just doesn’t get excited about the product Tech puts on the field.
To top it off you go and insult our level of competition. I must assume you are the typical uninformed GA Tech fan who doesn’t realize you start your season with the power house SOUTH CAROLINA STATE. Now there is a competitive match up that should make Tech alums across the country glow with pride.
Papadawg
August 25th, 2010
11:31 am
The Dawgs could only sell half the stadium and still have twice more than GTs home games
Paul Johnson
August 25th, 2010
11:32 am
“Tech Fans are pathetic
August 25th, 2010
11:30 am
At GA TECH Alum…
Once again we hear the same old tire excuses for why Tech can’t sell out their stadium.
1. We are too busy working.
2. We don’t have non-alumni in the stands.
The myth that 70% of UGA fans in the stands have no connection with the school is complete non-sense. Consider that roughly 82,000 tickets are reserved for Georgia fans (remaining goes to visitors) and 15,000 student tickets are sold each year. This means that nearly 20% of the available seats are occupied by students who ATTEND the university.
To suggest that only 30% of the stadium has a connection to the university and the rest are a bunch of uncultured rednecks is a sad attempt to deflect the fact that your fan base just doesn’t get excited about the product Tech puts on the field.
To top it off you go and insult our level of competition. I must assume you are the typical uninformed GA Tech fan who doesn’t realize you start your season with the power house SOUTH CAROLINA STATE. Now there is a competitive match up that should make Tech alums across the country glow with pride.”
I would be willing to place money against that.
NORTH AVENUE IRREGULARS
August 25th, 2010
11:33 am
WOW! GT ALUM is awfully full of himself, and somehow has the statistics showing the percentage breakdowns of UGA Alums that actually attend games at Sanford Stadium. What an angry, arrogant and stupid individual. While I completely disagree with his view of the make-up of folks who attend Georgia home football games (when I go, I see mostly well-to-do people, lots of happy children, and LOTS of hot women), he seems to think that folks without a PHD are not good company at a football game. GT Alum thinks an awful lot of himself, and doesn’t too much care about the folks that make this country great, and who manufactured his socks, shoes and underwear. By the way, pretty much all the doctors, lawyers, politicians, and other successful people that I know in this state went to UGA, not Tech. What a bitter fool. I guess he still believes that all of Tech’s football players will work for NASA one day too. Keep dreamin brother, and don’t be so bitter.
Paul Johnson
August 25th, 2010
11:33 am
95% of the UGA fans i know have no connection to the school.
JB
August 25th, 2010
11:33 am
Boy, we can ALL agree with that AtlantaNative62. But, I think he does have a clue, and his plan is working just like he wants it. total dependency on Government.
lanier
August 25th, 2010
11:33 am
all you rednecks are funny keep it up.
drew
August 25th, 2010
11:33 am
quit frankly have you ever been to a game in september at 12? its too damn hot. The folks doing the scheduling are freaking idiots. They should schedule the first few games at night. People would be falling out from heat exhaustion. They should take in to consideration people’s health. Older people can’t take the heat. But they are scared people will get drunk and be roudy and tare stuff up. That is their God giving right as an American to get drunk and sloppy before a game. If UGA didnt have a bunch of pricks running the show then every game would be sold out. ITS TOOOO DAMN HOTTT
HugoStiglitz
August 25th, 2010
11:34 am
Ive seen and experienced both as well JB, it doesnt really change the point. Football is a very important part of UGA, maybe the most important part of UGA. That is not the case with GT students or the school in general. Its basically the same as the Green Bay Packers ragging the Atlanta Falcons about attendance. Its two totally different fanbases with different mindsets when it comes to football.
ryan
August 25th, 2010
11:35 am
Its the economy stupid !
GT Alum
August 25th, 2010
11:36 am
HA HA HA – I love it when people call tech Grads elitist. Why shouldn’t we be? One of the Best SCHOOLS in the country, one of the SCHOOLS in the world. College isn’t about football. Football is just something to help pay for the upkeep of the college.
Yes – I am elitist. Yes – I am smarter than most people. Yes – I work hard. Yes – Jimmy Carter did indeed graduate from tech… and while I may think his policies are bad, or his actions, he was still the LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD for his term in office. Yes – I may be a complete nerd because I like science and learning and reading up on technical stuff. Yes – I like continuing my education constantly.
You people have your priorities highly skewed. Think about what you are saying. Tech football is a great thing, we don’t necessarily win, occasionally we win a championship (which at last count, we were still ahead of UGA), but that doesn’t matter to most tech grads, because we love college and go on to bigger, grander things. UGA is still a good school, it was just based around agricultural facilities. Which is also why you can afford a much larger stadium, it was purchased out of pasture/farmland. Atlanta is a metropolis. We have the busiest airport in the world. More fortune 500 companies headquartered there than anywhere. We don’t need the football stadium to bring in the money. We have Georgia Tech Research Institute which brings in millions, per month. We have more patents through the school than almost any other educational organization in the world. They bring in our money. We have the top researchers in many categories. They bring in money. While football may be great to watch, and fun to sit in the stadiums at, it isn’t our college lifeblood. Intelligence and research and Engineering bring the money to tech, so we don’t have to subsidize our efforts with sports, we just enjoy doing it.
I would also think that since, in the last ten years, UGA football has contributed about 1/100th of the money that GT’s research grants and endowments have contributed to the University System of GA, that you would be commending us for taking over an arena that UGA alone would never be able to handle. But that would mean thinking outside of your precious hedges, and seeing the rest of the world.