Will Homecoming Sell Out?

[MeanGreenGlory]

Well, the team #Hit6 and is on track to #Hit7, #Hit8, and #Hit9.

Can we match their performance and #Hit30k?

Over 22,000 loud and excited fans showed up for a Thursday night game on national television.

Do you think the Rice win, bowl eligibility, another Texas opponent, and homecoming can bring in an additional 8,000 for the first sell-out of Apogee?

Edited November 1, 2013 by MeanGreenGlory

[dml7007]

I think it will be a good crowd, but not sure a sell out. Probably next years SMU will be the first.. Wish it was sooner..

[UNTFan23]

Tough to say. 25k is easily doable though.

[golfingomez]

it won't sell out... but Apogee will look fantastic

[meangreener]

I think it'll be in the 27-28 range but no sell out. I'd love to break 30.

As long as we don't lay an egg to UT next season and continue on our torrid pace, SMU will be the first sell out.

Edited November 1, 2013 by meangreener

[Cerebus]

26K.

Alumni count will be up.

Student count down.

UTEP will bring people.

SMU won't be a sellout next year because they will bring less people than Rice did.

[Eastwood Eagle]

If students show up like they did yesterday than we will hit 25k since a lot more alumni will be there.

[Stan R]

I really REALLY hope that a good portion of those students at the game (who aren't normally there) will be back for the rest of the season.

[DirtySavage]

I would love to see it but no.....

[Stan R]

I would love to see it but no.....

I agree. The key to that sort of thing is sustained winning seasons. Each winning season locks in a group of new alums that will stay through thick and thin. Those add to the "die hard" set of around 12,000 alumni fans that are almost always there on the alumni side. If we can just keep what we have there and add to it little by little, we will hit our sellout goals. It is a long term plan but we are definitely on the right track now!

[KingDL1]

It has an opportunity to, too bad it is not a later game and we would have a better shot at it.

Good weather and if they can push back the game until 5 would make a huge difference in attendance.

[FireFightnJoey]

I'm the lone homer that voted yes so far. Here's why.

Week night on Halloween == 22k. Great student turn out, but moderate alumni turnout. I think with this game, the students will be back in force. It was too much fun for them. The alumni will return in force. The kicker here is UTEP always bragging they will bring more than us to our own stadium. So, if UTEP shows up, it will be a sell out. Otherwise, pretty dang close.

[NT03]

I'm trying to bring in an extra 30-40 from work. Got about 15 definites so far

[Green Mean]

Won't sell out but I'd be pretty surprised if we didn't get 25K. It's actually kind of weird making this statement. Good times are happening in Denton right now.

[MeanGreenTexan]

I think we're going to need to rely on a solid UTEP showing if we're going to approach a sellout.

Otherwise, if the students come out again like they did last night, and UTEP only brings what Rice brought, we'll be right around 25K.

[meangreener]

I think we're going to need to rely on a solid UTEP showing if we're going to approach a sellout.

Otherwise, if the students come out again like they did last night, and UTEP only brings what Rice brought, we'll be right around 25K.

Rice is notoriously awful at traveling. UTEP will bring as many as Houston did-if not more.

[UNTLifer]

26K.

Alumni count will be up.

Student count down.

UTEP will bring people.

SMU won't be a sellout next year because they will bring less people than Rice did.

Agreed except for one point. I think more students will be there than were there last night.

[meangreener]

Agreed except for one point. I think more students will be there than were there last night.

Yup.

[Cerebus]

I'm trying to bring in an extra 30-40 from work. Got about 15 definites so far

You are a mo-sheen.

[10Eagle10]

27k.

That means there's a chance

[SSP]

I dont know, guys....

People in Denton are really excited about this team. And I'm not just talking about alumni and football followers. There are a ton of people that I had no idea even affiliated with or followed UNT talking about coming out next week. These are even denton locals who went to other Texas D1 schools who are talking more about us now than they do their own alum. True story.

I don't think we sell out. BUT I would not be at all surprised if we hit 28-29.

[Eastwood Eagle]

We shouldn't discount the fact that UTEP supposedly travels well.

[EagleGreen]

Something is happening here. My students received extra credit for going to the game (I'm a prof at the U). For many, it was their first game and most (if not all) seemed hooked! Most ended their e-mail with "When is the next game?"

Good stuff.

[Green59]

I think we are looking at a sell out as long as it is not raining or too cold. If we can draw 22,000 on Halloween on a Thursday night with a very low opponent fan count then I believe we can sell out with a Saturday afternoon homecoming game with an opponent fan base that supposedly travels well.

[Eastwood Eagle]

Hopefully fans are hungry still. I hope people don't think mission is accomplished because we hit 6.