Memory Mall Tailgate spots sell out in minutes for Furman game

[Knight_Light]

UCF's 2nd game tailgate spaces sell out within minutes

http://www.centralfloridafuture.com...gate-spaces-sell-out-within-minutes/71911774/

3rd game spots go up reservation on Sept 21st at 10 am.

 

[Stormthecourt?]

With this being the first Saturday home game it will be interesting to see how it works out. I predict people with reservations show up late and the 2 guys who broke the Pegasus steal the spots with their bikes.

 

[HammerB08]

Saturday games are what college football is all about. A game against FCS Furman on a Saturday has generated enough interest to sell out that tailgate in minutes after a miserable loss to FIU. The second half of the FIU game looked like 1/3 of the stadium picked up and left at the break to get home on a school night. Never sell our home field advantage off to get a spot on a Thursday night on CBSSN (competing against all final NFL preseason games and other college games) that we could've gotten on Saturday at 3 PM (CBSSN aired FAU at Tulsa at 3 PM this past Saturday).

 

[Stormthecourt?]

Saturday games are what college football is all about. A game against FCS Furman on a Saturday has generated enough interest to sell out that tailgate in minutes after a miserable loss to FIU. The second half of the FIU game looked like 1/3 of the stadium picked up and left at the break to get home on a school night. Never sell our home field advantage off to get a spot on a Thursday night on CBSSN (competing against all final NFL preseason games and other college games) that we could've gotten on Saturday at 3 PM (CBSSN aired FAU at Tulsa at 3 PM this past Saturday).

The real reason the athletic department picked the Thursday night game is so that the department could vacation over Labor Day weekend. Didn't the same thing happen two years ago with Akron? The athletic department should stop being so selfish and do their job.

 

[firm_bizzle]

With this being the first Saturday home game it will be interesting to see how it works out. I predict people with reservations show up late and the 2 guys who broke the Pegasus steal the spots with their bikes.

Ya snooze ya lose those 2 guys gonna booze.

 

[HammerB08]

The real reason the athletic department picked the Thursday night game is so that the department could vacation over Labor Day weekend. Didn't the same thing happen two years ago with Akron? The athletic department should stop being so selfish and do their job.

The same thing did happen with Akron. It's absolutely shameful if that's their motivation for moving games off labor day Saturday at BHNS.

 

[Stormthecourt?]

The same thing did happen with Akron. It's absolutely shameful if that's their motivation for moving games off labor day Saturday at BHNS.

I believe the Akron game was on ESPN 3 so it wasn't even for a better channel. The athletic department would probably put all our games on Thursday night CBS sports channel if they could.

 

[muckdawg24]

The real reason the athletic department picked the Thursday night game is so that the department could vacation over Labor Day weekend. Didn't the same thing happen two years ago with Akron? The athletic department should stop being so selfish and do their job.

Can we confirm that's why they actually moved it or was it because of TV?

 

[C-MontCityKnight2]

Can we confirm that's why they actually moved it or was it because of TV?

LOL they moved it for TV. At some point though UCF needs to look at the revenue we would get from increased attendance at a Saturday afternoon game VS the revenue we get from the low-tier TV rights on CBSSN. I don't think the average person even knows CBSSN is a channel, so there aren't exactly a lot of channel surfers that would stumble on our game and watch. Ratings on that channel are horrendous, so the payout just can't be that much.

Let's be real...we're not getting any appreciable national attention by being on CBSSN, so let's not piss off the fans by playing stupid weekday games against FIU.

Did I mention that FIU is about to be kicked out of FBS because of attendance? GOL lost to essentially an FCS team.

 

[Stormthecourt?]

LOL they moved it for TV. At some point though UCF needs to look at the revenue we would get from increased attendance at a Saturday afternoon game VS the revenue we get from the low-tier TV rights on CBSSN. I don't think the average person even knows CBSSN is a channel, so there aren't exactly a lot of channel surfers that would stumble on our game and watch. Ratings on that channel are horrendous, so the payout just can't be that much.

Let's be real...we're not getting any appreciable national attention by being on CBSSN, so let's not piss off the fans by playing stupid weekday games against FIU.

Did I mention that FIU is about to be kicked out of FBS because of attendance? GOL lost to essentially an FCS team.

I don't know why you assume they moved it for tv. They moved the Akron game two years ago to Thursday and all we got was ESPN 3 (not on tv). That was unexplainable.

 

[Ucfmikes]

LOL they moved it for TV. At some point though UCF needs to look at the revenue we would get from increased attendance at a Saturday afternoon game VS the revenue we get from the low-tier TV rights on CBSSN. I don't think the average person even knows CBSSN is a channel, so there aren't exactly a lot of channel surfers that would stumble on our game and watch. Ratings on that channel are horrendous, so the payout just can't be that much.

Let's be real...we're not getting any appreciable national attention by being on CBSSN, so let's not piss off the fans by playing stupid weekday games against FIU.

Did I mention that FIU is about to be kicked out of FBS because of attendance? GOL lost to essentially an FCS team.

They aren't an FCS team. They made a freaking bowl game a few years ago and could be .500 team this year. Why do you continue to correlate talent and success on the field with attendance?

Michigan gets over 100,000 fans attending each home game. Does that mean that they are better than everyone? ONE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE OTHER.