The Aura Of Tommy Tuberville: Home Opener Expected To Sell Out

(Courtesy Stadium Journey)

The Cincinnati Bearcats have yet to play a down of football under Tommy Tuberville’s new regime and UC is already reaping the rewards of their new head coach. The home opener against the Purdue Boilermakers is projected to be sold out based on Whit Babcock’s fancy math. According to the Cincinnati AD, ticket sales for game 1 are flooding in at a faster clip than this time last year. 2,500 tickets faster to be exact. Given the crowd of 33,562 that showed up to witness the Bearcats systematically dismantle the Pitt Panthers, Nippert is expected be at capacity against Purdue. This is excellent news to say the least!

To me, the money line from the Enquirer article is this:

"The biggest jump has been people buying tickets farther in advance."

For those of you who didn’t study Economics in college, that’s called demand; something Cincinnati football hasn’t had since Brian Kelly lit the world on fire. That’s the kind of effect Tommy Tuberville has had on this program. By comparison it took Butch Jones over two seasons to record his first sellout. Tuberville is on pace to achieved that before even coaching his first game. Hopefully he can accomplish as much on the football field with the Bearcats as he has off of it but so far I love the upward trajectory of UC football so early in his tenure.