Louisville football tickets a hard sell

Louisville lags roughly 6,000 behind its season-ticket total from last season at a stadium that will be expanded by more than 13,000 seats for the 2010 season. That construction is under way. The Courier-Journal learned through an open-records request that the university sold 27,218 season tickets by the school’s June12 deadline. However, that is not a firm deadline, and UofL senior associate athletic director Gary Friedman said ticket holders who want to upgrade their seats may not be included in the number. As it stands, it would be the lowest total since the stadium opened in 1998, but sales will continue until the Cards’ opener against Indiana State on Sept.5. – Courier-Journal