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Message: [QUOTE="OttoMets, post: 752557, member: 716"] Yeah. We got about 15,000 into seats for our 6:00 p.m. weekday Senior Day against DePaul this year (they claimed ~23,000 sold, but it was every bit the attendance fudge that they play with the football crowds). That's 43% capacity. We were in that ballpark for another 11 of our 19 home basketball games (including Boeheim's much-publicized 900th win against a decent Detroit team). No one outside the group of diehard fans cared about any of that - nearly half the Dome seats were empty for the bulk of the schedule. I estimated about 28,000 in the seats today. 56%. It's the same deal with both sports. As you note, football enjoys less widespread support due to a number of reasons. But demand for both sports is flat unless a big rival is in town. Even highly-ranked non-rivals don't rate, whether it's Florida for hoops or Cincinnati for football. [/QUOTE]