Over 100 individuals in the program will be divided into four teams and canvass 10 local neighborhoods from 6 – 8:00 p.m. (CDT) on each day. WKU football will visit the T.C. Cherry/Bowling Green High, Briarwood and Park Hills/ Whispering Hills neighborhoods on Tuesday, July 22 and the McFadden’s Ferry/Cumberland Trace, Indian Hills, Parker-Bennett Curry and Dishman McGinnis neighborhoods on Thursday, July 24. The team will be in the Cave Mill area on each day.
This marks the second consecutive year the football team has gone door-to-door selling season tickets. Players and coaches from the team that sell the most tickets will be treated to a steak dinner at the team’s annual cook out during preseason camp, while the other three teams will dine on lesser fare.
“We had tremendous success with this initiative last year, and I am pleased we will be doing it again,” Head Coach David Elson said. “It enables our team to interact with the community that gives us such great support while also giving our student-athletes a unique perspective to the business side of athletics. I also believe good natured competitions such as this help build team chemistry.”
WKU sold over 9,000 season tickets in 2007, an all-time high and a 400 percent increase from the 1,800 the school sold in 2006 before embarking on its two-year transition to the Football Bowl Subdivision level (Division I-A).
