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[QUOTE="NJCuse97, post: 5425755, member: 5058"]
FSU's gate has to do with them having a more than 30,000 seat capacity. Their potential capacity is almost 2x ours. Little to no money is made on gate anyway (see the Lally vs AW thread, where the Lallys say as much themselves). That said, a full stadium looks better on TV, so filling it up matters for that.

Clemson is a public/private school not unlike Cornell. It has land grant status and state funding for research. It is not much bigger than SU and they are founded 20 years after us. There is no real disparity there, as we are both R1 research institutes, but SU needs to up it's STEM research commitments and establish a medical college. For football, it all comes down to wins and a recency bias. As others have said, Clemson's football prestige and success is more recent (the last ten years) than most care to believe. They have 50 more wins historically (thanks to the last 20 years) and we have a better bowl win percentage (they have 50 bowls to our 39 - again, thanks to the last 20 years).
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