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UNLV AD Harper: More Than 1,000 New Football Season Tickets Purchased By Fans In 2024; UNLV Demolish Utah Tech, 72-14, Saturday; Attendance 24,512

 

UNLV coach Barry Odom

 

 

UNLV AD Erick Harper

 


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    Story by Alan Snel     Photos by Hugh Byrne

Dan Dolby strolled around Allegiant Stadium’s artificial turf before today’s football game between UNLV and Utah Tech and he sported a pleasant smile.

Dolby, UNLV Learfield’s sports and sponsorships head, said 8,000 tickets were distributed to UNLV students and he was hoping for 27,000 in attendance for the Rebels’ home-opener against Utah Tech after UNLV hammered Houston in Texas by 20 points a week ago.

Here’s our pregame interview with Dolby:

Dolby said UNLV’s ticket deal of four tix for $56 helped draw fans to the stadium’s lower bowl. Update: Attendance was announced at 24,512.

He noted that $56, four-ticket deal will be re-evaluated for UNLV’s future five home games against Mountain West foes Boise State, Fresno, Nevada-Reno and San Diego State and the ACC’s Syracuse Orange.

Dan Dolby of UNLV Learfield

LVSportsBiz.com also interviewed UNLV Athletics Director Erick Harper, who told us that UNLV sold more than 1,000 new football season tickets for 2024.

Harper said ticket packages like multi-game ticket deals will be evaluated for future home games.

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As for the game itself, UNLV hammered Utah Tech from St. George, 72-14. It gave the Rebels a 2-0 record.

Next week the competition gets much more challeging. The Rebels travel to play a ranked Kansas Jayhawks team that defeated UNLV in the Arizona Bowl at the Arizona Diamondbacks baseball stadium in downtown Phoenix in December.

The Kansas team, however, will not play UNLV at its usual football stadium. The game will be played at the Major League Soccer stadium in metro Kansas City.

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UNLV paid homage to the Class of 1974 football team, which racked up a university record 12 wins.

 

 

Alan Snel: Alan Snel brings decades of sports-business reporting experience to LVSportsBiz.com. Snel covered the business side of sports for the South Florida (Fort Lauderdale) Sun-Sentinel, the Tampa Tribune and Las Vegas Review-Journal. As a city hall beat reporter, Snel also covered stadium deals in Denver and Seattle. In 2000, Snel launched a sport-business website for FoxSports.com called FoxSportsBiz.com. After reporting sports-business for the RJ, Snel wrote hard-hitting stories on the Raiders stadium for the Desert Companion magazine in Las Vegas and The Nevada Independent. Snel is also one of the top bicycle advocates in the country.
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