July 3, 2007
IOWA CITY — Sales of season tickets to the six home games of the 2007 University of Iowa football team have already exceeded the total sold a year ago and are on pace to surpass 56,500, the UI Department of Intercollegiate Athletics announced today.
To date, the UI Athletic Ticket Office has sold 45,852 season tickets to the general public, and UI faculty and staff. That total includes a complete sellout of the premium seat options inside the Paul W. Brechler Press Box. The UI also expects to sell all 10,400 season tickets assigned for sale to UI students.
“The support we receive from our many friends and fans is unmatched and these numbers are more evidence of that fact. We are very grateful for our tremendous following and don’t ever take it for granted,” said UI Director of Athletics Gary Barta.
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“The support we receive from our many friends and fans is unmatched and these numbers are more evidence of that fact. We are very grateful for our tremendous following and don’t ever take it for granted.”
UI Director of Athletics
Gary Barta |
“Obviously, our fans are just as excited about the 2007 college football season as we are,” added Barta, who noted that more than 800 new season ticket accounts have been opened by fans of the Hawkeyes already this spring and summer.
The UI has already sold 41,967 season tickets to the general public for seats in the four grandstands of Kinnick Stadium and in the Brechler Press Box. The UI sold 42,128 tickets to those areas of the stadium a year ago.
Sales of season tickets to UI faculty and staff have increased by more than 200 tickets to 3,901.
Sales of season tickets to current UI students are ahead of the sales pace of a year ago when the student section of Kinnick Stadium was sold to capacity. In fact, the UI is discussing whether to split season tickets to provide more students the opportunity to watch the Hawkeyes.
“The University of Iowa is readying itself for another near record-setting freshman class and we expect demand for tickets from that group to be very strong. The prudent thing to do is to discuss all options and one of them, of course, is to consider taking one six-game season ticket and splitting it into two three-game packages,” said Rick Klatt, the UI’s associate athletics director for external affairs.
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Iowa opens its 2007 season against Northern Illinois on Saturday, Sept. 1, in a game to be played at Soldier Field in Chicago. Officials at the UI and Northern Illinois expect that event to reach sellout status as early as this week.
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In addition to its success with the sale of season tickets, the UI Athletic Ticket Office has already sold 1,215 three-game ticket packages. The UI will continue to accept orders for season tickets for as long as they can provide a full six-game season ticket. Single-game sales will begin on July 10 if tickets are available.
The UI will enter the 2007 college football season with a string of 24 consecutive sellouts at historic Kinnick Stadium. The UI set a school record for football attendance a year ago with seven sellout crowds of 70,585.
“The rate of sales of season tickets in all categories provides us a very real opportunity to reach sellout status for all six home games and to push the string of sellouts games at Kinnick Stadium to 30 straight. That speaks volumes about our football program and our friends and fans,” said Klatt.
Iowa opens its 2007 season against Northern Illinois on Saturday, Sept. 1, in a game to be played at Soldier Field in Chicago. Officials at the UI and Northern Illinois expect that event to reach sellout status as early as this week.
The Hawkeyes open their 2007 home schedule one week later, Sept. 8, against Syracuse. That event will kick off at 7 p.m. Iowa time and will be televised live in high definition to a national audience by the Big Ten Network.
Iowa also entertains Indiana, Illinois, Michigan State, Minnesota and Western Michigan inside Kinnick Stadium this fall.
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