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[QUOTE="CU44SE, post: 1080720, member: 2196"]
My rebuttal would be ticket prices.  Syracuse ticket prices are dirt cheap for a div 1 college team.  NFL ticket prices are absurd.  Your paying 70 dollars a ticket before they go on the secondary market and I don't know for certain but I would assume a lot of those empty seats came during the winter (cold) months when attendance decreases.  Although they were technically in the hunt for playoffs, they needed a lot of help.  So a team that for most of the year was out of contention, cold climate, and absurd prices I could see 87% capacity.  Syracuse plays in a dome, tickets for 20 dollars, heck I got into a game last year for 10 dollars.  The guy tried to give me 2 tickets for free cause no one wanted them but I demanded to pay him 10 a ticket.  I understand your argument, people would rather sit in front of a 50 inch plasma on their couch and watch the game.  And that is where the issue lies.  The University somehow has to get the surrounding community involved in the game and make the game day experience an event.  Make the fans want to come.  Those population statistics says there are over 3,141,438 people within an hour drive of Syracuse (including Albany because they have no real sports affiliation even though 2 hours).  With increased marketing, it should be easy to fill a 50,000 seat stadium.  That is 1.6% of that population, I think that would be doable, but as many people have said before, even during the week of the Clemson game there was no marketing whatsoever.  People that didn't follow like we do didn't even know Clemson was coming to town.  Thats what I think needs to be changed, I love the NYC campaign but why can't we also have that campaign in and around the Syracuse market.  Get casual fans to come to the games and become diehards like us.
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