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[QUOTE="uproar84, post: 764663, member: 2907"]
I have a question about your football ticket sales:
 
You guys pack the dome for basketball every year.  SU is #1 in attendance every year for hoops.  Why can't you sell out a big game for football? 
 
Now, I'm not going to make a lot of friends on here saying this, but hear me out: College football is tremendously popular-- much more so than college basketball is.  Generally speaking, it's not close.  This disastrous realignment and these insane TV contracts are about one thing: football.  Now, I know that in Syracuse that's not the case.  SU is a hoops school, first and foremost-- I get that.  But considering what you're capable of for attendance when it comes to basketball, I would imagine that just the general popularity of football-- and your fan support when it comes to basketball-- would ensure an instant-sellout for a game like this.
 
When Clemson is good in basketball, and we've had our years under Barnes and Purnell, we sell out basketball games.  Granted, LJ is only about 11,000 seats, but we do sell-out.  When we played Kentucky in the Music City Bowl (2006 I believe), they brought probably 50,000 fans.  It was insane.  Kentucky's football history is a disaster-- it doesn't compare to Syracuse's.  But their fan support is great.  You see it for basketball and it translates to football as well.  
 
I'm just surprised this isn't an easy sell-out considering the popularity of college football and based on your support for basketball.
 
Looking forward to the trip.  GO TIGERS!
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