Fantastic Fans
It looks like we'll have a bit more recruiting news today, as Rivals.com is reporting Paulsboro LB Gerald Hodges and Voorhees' Logan Ryan, a CB, have both committed to Rutgers. Now, if 17 hotly-sought recruits committing to Rutgers BEFORE July would've read like a fantasy a few years ago, how fantastical would a story about the near-impossibility of getting a ticket in an expanded Rutgers Stadium have been?
Well, that's the truth these days: Who says Rutgers can't fill a Stadium? Deputy Athletic Director Kevin MacConnell tells me there's a waiting list for the brand new club seats, a waiting list for the brand new super-expensive loge boxes and that the waiting list for regular season tickets is bigger than the total season ticket holders Rutgers had just two seasons ago.
One of the more encouraging things in all this is that Rutgers is still committed to having its student section as loud and rowdy as its been. Kevin couldn't tell me exactly how many tickets are set aside for students, but he said 10,000 was a decent guess. Rutgers will put about a quarter of them up for sale to students - at a season cost of $77, or $11 per game - because a student survey, Kevin said, found a bunch of kids willing to pay to guarantee their entrance into the free-for-all general-seating student section.
The rest of the seats will be distributed as they were last year: on a designated day before each game, beginning at 12:01 a.m., students can log on to a special site and put in their request. Kevin said none of last year's eight games had all its student tickets claimed on the first day, or even the second, but I'm betting that changes this year.
still seems surreal to have these recruits keep coming. are we really going to be talking about a top 15 recruiting class?!!
Posted by: Eamon | June 23, 2008 at 01:54 PM
Aditi - Regarding the information in today's blog, care to solicit a comment from Professor Dowling and crew? Lol!
Posted by: LeapinLou | June 23, 2008 at 03:25 PM
I would especially like to hear Dowlings comments given the GPA's of the newest recruits.
Posted by: RUabz | June 23, 2008 at 04:47 PM