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[QUOTE="OttoMets, post: 697233, member: 716"]
Yeah, I'm leafing through that column now ([url]http://www.syracuse.com/poliquin/index.ssf/2011/08/poliquin_its_time_for_syracuse.html[/url]).
 
I guess one could argue that he's correct (if the first crowd was the biggest, they could paint that as capacity and say that everything since has fallen short), but it's probably silly for our purposes: a sell-out is more like "SU routinely prints/makes available X number of tickets for a football game and for this game they've sold/distributed X tickets."
 
Fans and members of the press tend to have a liberal interpretation of the term, but it shouldn't be difficult for SU to better detail the crowds they've drawn and the effect of Dome renovations on capacity (after all, how easy is to find exact figures regarding, say, capacity and field dimensions for Yankee Stadium over the past 90 years?). And "sell-outs" are well-documented for the basketball team, too. (On a related note, is SU ever going to pay attention to its website? "Year-by-year statistics" hasn't been updated in two seasons; half the links are broken; and it cuts off in 1992.)
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