What Happened to Hawaii’s Tickets?
Dec 11th 2007eCollege Football
Last week the University of Hawaii found out their football team was going to a BCS bowl for the first time in its history. It was an epic moment; something sure to attract the attention of an entire island and spur colossal demand for tickets. Unfortunately, the Sugar Bowl didn’t quite see it that way. Bowl officials reportedly told Hawaii they shouldn’t use their whole allotment of tickets.
UH was originally contractually obligated to sell 17,500 tickets for its Sugar Bowl game against the University of Georgia. But UH athletic director Herman Frazier told The Advertiser that Sugar Bowl officials pressured him to take only 13,500 tickets on Saturday, before UH played its final regular season game against Washington. The extra 4,000 Sugar Bowl tickets were allocated to Georgia fans.
Can you guess what happened next? I’ll give you a hint. Everything did not turn out all nice and rosy. In fact, the opposite happened. The high demand for Sugar Bowl tickets led to shortage for UH fans.
Bowl officials are now trying to make things right……by giving Hawaii only an additional 500 tickets. Yay. It’s bad enough that non-BCS schools are never invited to big money games, but to exclude 4,000 fans when they do get invited to those games is downright mean. Tear the system down.
In other Hawaii news, Colt Brennan didn’t win the Heisman, but he did get to skip class to go to the ceremonies in New York. I guess that’s just one benefit of being a Heisman trophy candidate—you know, along with accepting $50,000 dollars from USC boosters.
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