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Message: [QUOTE="Scooch, post: 816854, member: 628"] It's Groundhog Day! We had 48,ooo fans in attendance for a game THIS YEAR. Here's the deal... the program is, at best, mediocre. And has been a devastatingly non-entertaining mediocre for years, aside from a few game stretch last season. People don't care about coming out to see us, maybe, get bowl eligible. It seems obvious that Syracuse is an event-driven town. The hoops team has been at a point for several years where every game they play is an event. Hence the baseline 22K in attendance. Some of those events are nationally attention-grabbing, hence the 30K+ crowds. When SU football played it's ACC opener against a well-known top 5 team THAT was an event. The program itself hasn't been an event in over a decade. SU probably built the Dome 6-8K seats too big anyway. That we've topped 45K for football many, many times over the years is quite an accomplishment when you compare our region size/alumni base to others. [/QUOTE]