![]() ![]() Lohse Beeland, director of student activities for UF, was not immediately able to provide annual ticket sales for recent years, but said her recollection is they have been in the "mid-30s to mid-40s." "Last year with Bill Cosby was a blurp," Beeland said. The final number of tickets sold and gate receipts still are being calculated to determine the financial success of the show. "The talent last night was paid $25,000 for Titus, $15,000 for Arnez J, and $27,500 for (musical group) Sugar Ray," Smith said. "The higher up on the ladder you get with comedians, the more expensive it gets," Richards said.Ĭarli Smith, director of public relations for Gator Growl, said last year that Cosby was paid about $200,000. He said students carefully scope out the comedy circuit every year to get the best talent they can find. "Our overall goal is to put on the best show possible," said Homecoming general chairman Kelley Richards. The student members of Florida Blue Key who ran this year's show said that's the important thing. Still, he said this weekend's comedians, Arnez J and Christopher Titus, "were just as funny" as Cosby. "It's probably because the comedians weren't really big names compared with Bill Cosby," speculated UF student Kevin Wickwire, who has attended the past three Gator Growls. "It was great."īut veterans of the annual comedy-music-fireworks bacchanal noted that attendance was sharply down from last year's crowd of 58,400 for headliner Bill Cosby - and a far cry from the 1990s, which drew one crowd of 70,000 people after another. "There were a lot of people there," Hardacre said. ![]() GAINESVILLE - University of Florida student William Hardacre was among the 36,000-plus in attendance at this weekend's Gator Growl, and, it being his first experience with the annual Homecoming pep rally, that seemed like a big crowd to him. ![]()
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