Sullycuse
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Pitt - Storrs State - Louisville... that's it for Big East dome games
I don't mean to skip over the Minny game, and while the talk about dome attendance is getting pretty tired (there are clearly a couple different camps that are pretty staunchly settled in)...
Isn't it reasonable to expect the dome to be near-sold out for Pitt in two weeks (and the other two home games after that, for that matter)? I thought the SB game would get decent attendance due the the hype around SB's 77 points the week before and their BCS level transfers from Iowa and BC and whatnot... but clearly no one else thought along the same lines.
Pitt just pulled out the big upset against #13 (i believe at the time) VTech after looking like they could be last in the league which provides at least 3 levels of interest that should push SU fans to get into the dome for that game:
1. Pitt and SU, last game ever as a big east matchup...for whatever it's worth (the argument can be used for the other two dome games, but su/pitt is a matchup of the teams leaving together to the acc, obviously)
2. Pitt and SU, currently next to each other in most conference power-rankings (toward the bottom)...so the matchup could establish the better team in the always muddled big east records at the end of the season.
3. Depending on who Pitt really is, it could be a fun matchup
3a. if the pitt team from the first two weeks shows up, we could potentially beat pitt in convincing fashion (which last happened in 2004...the win, not the convincing fashion - it was double OT)
Pitt - Storrs State - Louisville...that's the home schedule for the rest of the season... for all the griping/defending of dome attendance...the 3 dome games for the rest of the year should be at least full enough that the cameras can show the entire dome and SU/players/fans don't have to be embarrassed.
I don't mean to skip over the Minny game, and while the talk about dome attendance is getting pretty tired (there are clearly a couple different camps that are pretty staunchly settled in)...
Isn't it reasonable to expect the dome to be near-sold out for Pitt in two weeks (and the other two home games after that, for that matter)? I thought the SB game would get decent attendance due the the hype around SB's 77 points the week before and their BCS level transfers from Iowa and BC and whatnot... but clearly no one else thought along the same lines.
Pitt just pulled out the big upset against #13 (i believe at the time) VTech after looking like they could be last in the league which provides at least 3 levels of interest that should push SU fans to get into the dome for that game:
1. Pitt and SU, last game ever as a big east matchup...for whatever it's worth (the argument can be used for the other two dome games, but su/pitt is a matchup of the teams leaving together to the acc, obviously)
2. Pitt and SU, currently next to each other in most conference power-rankings (toward the bottom)...so the matchup could establish the better team in the always muddled big east records at the end of the season.
3. Depending on who Pitt really is, it could be a fun matchup
3a. if the pitt team from the first two weeks shows up, we could potentially beat pitt in convincing fashion (which last happened in 2004...the win, not the convincing fashion - it was double OT)
Pitt - Storrs State - Louisville...that's the home schedule for the rest of the season... for all the griping/defending of dome attendance...the 3 dome games for the rest of the year should be at least full enough that the cameras can show the entire dome and SU/players/fans don't have to be embarrassed.
