As reported earlier, for this time of year. MU has sold 22,919 season ticket packages to the general public and 4,856 student ticket packages as of Wednesday, department spokesman Nick Joos confirmed.
The general public figure is down about 15 percent from this time last year, when MU had sold 26,950 tickets. The student sales are up 114 percent from last year at this time (2,260). This year’s student sales have already surpassed last year’s final sales figure of 3,008. Overall, MU's sales (public and students) are down about 5 percent from this time last year.
However, single-game ticket sales have been robust this summer. Last year at this time, MU had sold 1,346 single-game tickets. This year, thanks to the newly hired outbound ticket sales group, that figure is already 11,606 as of this week.
People are also reading…
Why the surge in student sales? This year, student football ticket packages are tethered to student basketball ticket packages. As you’d expect, basketball ticket sales have exploded this offseason. Thus, student football ticket sales are up, too. Mizzou expects to surpass last year's ticket sales totals for student packages.Â
Here are Missouri's season football season ticket totals for the last six years. The student total listed accounts for combo ticket packages (football and basketball) and football-only packages:Â
2011: 25,768 public, 11,253 students
2012: 32,104 public, 11,792 students
2013: 29,849 public, 9,905 students
2014: 31,077 public, 10,562 students
2015: 32,375 public, 10,001 students
2016: 27,321 public, 6,781 students
As of this time last year, Mizzou had sold 29,210 season tickets total, which accounted for 85.7 percent of its final total.
Here are MU's total sales figures (public plus students) for the last six years):
2011: 37,021
2012: 43,896*
2013: 39,754
2014: 41,639
2015: 42,376
2016: 34,102
*First year in SEC
Last year, in the wake of the 2015 player boycott and Gary Pinkel's retirement, season ticket sales fell by 19.5 percent in 2016 overall, 15.6 percent among the general public and 32.2 percent among students.Â
As of this week, MU has sold 5,105 general public basketball season tickets. That’s already passed last year’s final figure (4,434), an uptick of 15 percent. MU has sold 4,856 student season tickets for basketball, an increase of 61.4 percent from last year’s final figure (3,008). Mizzou continues to take requests from its wait list for season tickets and will keep selling student tickets.
