A historic day in college soccer. What my research shows me is the first PRE-GAMEDAY SELL-OUT of a college soccer game of such magnitude. Certainly for a regular season game, and perhaps for a playoff or national championship game. I still have to finish cross referencing the NCAA Record Book with stadium capacities. Students and everyone else arriving w/o a ticket Friday will be turned away at the gates. What is notable is not just the sellout, once again the largest for a regular season college soccer game. It is that is was sold out before game-day! How many schools even hand out student tickets before gameday! http://gopoly.com/sports/msoc/2013-14/releases/201310240jbtb4
I got my tickets! Luckily a buddy of mine had the foresight to buy them in advance for us because I was just gonna show up early and try to buy them at the door. Good thing he was lookin' out for me!
Were student tickets distributed in advance at all or will they be playing in front of a completely non-student crowd? What about a visiting team allotment?
Yes, student tickets were distributed in advance. I estimate about 2000 non-students, mostly in the new/east stands. So about 80% students. Non-Student tickets had been on-sale for months. This is college soccer, I'm not sure there is such a thing. What I do know is that many UCSB fans were deterred because they did not get tickets in advance. As a result there were only about 50-200 gaucho fans compared to about 1500 Cal Poly fans that traveled to UCSB later that year (I counted the #of rows and students in that row then added about 200 for CP fans I could see elsehwere in the stadium. The did not advertise it very much that students could pick up tickets. I imagine this year there will be people camping out to get tickets as last year there will people showing up an hour before it opened in the early morning to get tickets.