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Message: [QUOTE="Chip, post: 753345, member: 19"] The one thing I do wonder is how many of the big city alums on this board do actually go to games? I know personally, I'm a season ticket holder, with 5 others. We just can't make it up there more than once, maybe twice per year. But we communicate with each other to make sure the tickets are used, either by someone in the group, or donating them. I can't say we're always successful, but we try a little harder each year to make sure those seats are occupied. To me, at $99 a pop, it's worth it as it should somewhat help the program and guarantees me a good seat (we're first row upper deck endzone) whenever I do want to go. The whole situation is just frustrating, especially with the way the offense is playing, SU's calling card for football fan support. SU has always seen lesser crowds for lesser opponents (Scooch's 91 opener against Vandy example), but when they announced 35k for that game, you never doubted there were 35k in that building. I was at that Vandy 35k game too, and it didn't appear anywhere near as empty as yesterday's "36k" looked. I don't think SU is without guilt in the situation. I just think that every segment is lacking when it looks that empty. Locals, alums, students, and SU itself. Everyone can do better. Maybe the Clemson game cures all ills. Agree that the students are a good place to start. SU should figure out a way for all student tix to be free, even if that means recouping in some activity fee. If you apply the money you'd collect from full student sections to football/hoops across the broad base of all students, how much can that add to the bill, $100? $200? Are we going to lose enrollment over that fee? SU also needs to revisit its pricing structure for the donation level sideline seats. Too long have too many of those seats been unsold. Yet I don't think there have been many changes in the structure. Yet, the upper deck end zone ($99) and corner ($125) have been cut to, by far, as good a discount as you'll see in college football, probably ever. I could write another whole dissertation on the Oswego people, as I grew up as one of them. But I'll save that for later. [/QUOTE]

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