Tennessee Senior Associate AD/External Relations Chris Fuller on Wednesday said that for football games at Neyland Stadium, the school "has already sold 62,000 season tickets and that a large majority of the premium seats have been taken," according to Dustin Dopirak of the Knoxville NEWS-SENTINEL. The program has "already sold out of season tickets for the skyboxes and also out of seats in the club section on the west side of the stadium." Fuller said that UT has "about 30 season tickets available in the east club seats and about 20 season tickets available of the 1,800 on the Tennessee Terrace on the west side of the stadium below the club seats." Fuller: "This would be the first time we’ve sold the terrace space out. ... The only premium seating area that we might not sell out, or that we’re not all the way home with is the east club seats, and I still think we can sell those out." The 62,000 season tickets sold so far "are more than they sold all of last season when they finished with 59,800." It is "the most they’ve sold" since reaching 63,362 in '11. Fuller: "My target would be 72,500, but I think it’s really realistic for us to shoot for 65,000 and it wouldn’t surprise me if we got past that when you look at how many tickets we sold between this time last year and opening day." Fuller is hopeful that UT "will see an uptick in sales for men’s basketball with the hiring of coach Rick Barnes, though it’s too early to tell if they will without a schedule out" (Knoxville NEWS-SENTINEL, 6/7).
