[More Cowbell]

Yeah some games, but considering there are at most 8 home football games per year and around 15-20 basketball games people will be less willing to buy the tickets more often. Prices will be too high, and most people can't travel to the weeknight games which are pretty often once the SEC season starts.

Trust me when I say, the arena will hold around 30-35 thousand at most.

I agree, UK would not be able to sell out 60,000 seats for midweek games, especially for no-name opponents. You would have a lot of empty seats in the upper deck.

Like you said, you can't compare a basketball arena to football games. There are only a handful of home games each season in football, plus they are all (at least at UK) on Saturdays, making it easy for fans out in the state to make the drive.

Hopefully, the new arena will be on the upper end of the 24-30 thousand range as mentioned in the article.