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DMN: Purple and Maroon? TCU AD says Texas A&M only getting 900 tickets after Twitter incident
Kate Hairopoulos
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Not a bad start to an NCAA baseball Super Regional. Texas A&M fans this week have tried to cut into TCU’s home-field advantage for the upcoming weekend series at Lupton Stadium that will determine which team advances to the College World Series in Omaha, Neb.
TCU athletic director Chris Del Conte downplayed the social-media driven ticket flap on Thursday. And he acknowledged the verdict will ultimately be obvious by the purple and maroon in the sold-out crowd for the best-of-three series Saturday, Sunday and, if-needed, Monday.
“I’m not exactly worried,” Del Conte said. “Social media has run amok.”
TCU has sold 6,800 tickets, according to Del Conte. He claimed that only 900 are going directly to A&M fans – the 600 dictated by the NCAA to be reserved for the visiting team and 311 bought by fans using the code TCU15. ...
http://collegesportsblog.dallasnews.com/2015/06/purple-and-maroon-well-see-during-saturday-and-sundays-baseball-super-regional-at-tcu.html/
Kate Hairopoulos
Follow @khairopoulos
Email khairopoulos@dallasnews.com
Not a bad start to an NCAA baseball Super Regional. Texas A&M fans this week have tried to cut into TCU’s home-field advantage for the upcoming weekend series at Lupton Stadium that will determine which team advances to the College World Series in Omaha, Neb.
TCU athletic director Chris Del Conte downplayed the social-media driven ticket flap on Thursday. And he acknowledged the verdict will ultimately be obvious by the purple and maroon in the sold-out crowd for the best-of-three series Saturday, Sunday and, if-needed, Monday.
“I’m not exactly worried,” Del Conte said. “Social media has run amok.”
TCU has sold 6,800 tickets, according to Del Conte. He claimed that only 900 are going directly to A&M fans – the 600 dictated by the NCAA to be reserved for the visiting team and 311 bought by fans using the code TCU15. ...
http://collegesportsblog.dallasnews.com/2015/06/purple-and-maroon-well-see-during-saturday-and-sundays-baseball-super-regional-at-tcu.html/
