Packed house today

[CuseLegacy]

Coach Scott Shafer ‏@Coach_Shafer 8m
Thanks to the Syracuse faithful for supporting the boys today in the win over Wake. We appreciate the support! #cusenation

 

[kirbivore]

38000 seemed about right. Not a terrible crowd for 12:30. Wake didn't help at all.

I think that's roughly the same level of attendance you'll see the rest of the year.

 

[Dcuse]

I hate to admit this but as a parent of 3, you couldn't have paid me to sit inside on a beautiful day today and watch this team play this game. I watched on DVR, I'm happy they won and I'm fine with people calling me a terrible fan, but that game was pretty bland even with every single break in the action taken out.

Unfortunately there's too many like you around here. So go grab your rake and jump on when they get decent again. Then you can tell everybody how you've had season
Tickets since 1924 .

 

[OttoinGrotto]

Unfortunately there's too many like you around here. So go grab your rake and jump on when they get decent again. Then you can tell everybody how you've had season
Tickets since 1924 .

Yeah, Bills definitely has his priorities out of whack. What kind of a dweeb puts family time in beautiful weather over taking 5 hours out of their day in order to watch two offensively inept teams take turns punting to each other?

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[Dcuse]

Yeah, Bills definitely has his priorities out of whack. What kind of a dweeb puts family time in beautiful weather over taking 5 hours out of their day in order to watch two offensively inept teams take turns punting to each other?

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Well,I guess 60 to 70,000 fans at good,well supported programs for a few hours on a Saturday. Maybe you two can administer the syracuefairweatheredfan.com site.

 

[OttoinGrotto]

Well,I guess 60 to 70,000 fans at good,well supported programs for a few hours on a Saturday. Maybe you two can administer the syracuefairweatheredfan.com site.

Maybe we can!

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[GoCuse44]

The curse of MetLife continues.

It's this generation's get a life.

Thank god Daryl had the common sense to pick-up several million dollars in guaranteed revenue for the football program playing games at Met Life. I have had season tickets for over 2o years and love traveling to one game a year at Met Life. I can't wait for September 27, 2014 for Notre Dame - Syracuse at Met Life !!!!!

Don't forget this town could not even sell out the Dome the last time Penn State (The Express premiere weekend) and Notre Dame came to Syracuse so they have no reason to complain about the football program 50% + of its budget by playing a nationally televised game at Met Life.

The people in this town had the perfect opportunity to prove Daryl wrong in October by selling out the Dome for the first game in ACC history against one of the top 10 teams in the country but it did not happen.

It's time for people quit bitching about Met Life and drive 4.5 hours to NJ to watch the boys play in an great NFL stadium and have a couple of beers in the Lexus Club suite.

Oh wait September 27, 2014 will be a perfect day to rake leaves .

 

[Shrmdougluvr]

Crowd wasn't too bad. Late arriving but not horrible.


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It didnt look bad to me on TV. You can't go by what you see behind the announcers when they do their pre-game bit. That is often shot quite a bit before kickoff.

 

[Scooch]

Unfortunately there's too many like you around here. So go grab your rake and jump on when they get decent again. Then you can tell everybody how you've had season
Tickets since 1924 .

Actually the problem is that there are too FEW of him. Most big time college fanbases are much larger than ours, given that they tend to be state schools with large amounts of both alums and regional fans. SU draws from a small alumni base and small region of its state.

Most programs have 2 of him for every 1 we have, and that's why they draw better than us.

 

[rrlbees]

Thank god Daryl had the common sense to pick-up several million dollars in guaranteed revenue for the football program playing games at Met Life. I have had season tickets for over 2o years and love traveling to one game a year at Met Life. I can't wait for September 27, 2014 for Notre Dame - Syracuse at Met Life !!!!!

Don't forget this town could not even sell out the Dome the last time Penn State (The Express premiere weekend) and Notre Dame came to Syracuse so they have no reason to complain about the football program 50% + of its budget by playing a nationally televised game at Met Life.

The people in this town had the perfect opportunity to prove Daryl wrong in October by selling out the Dome for the first game in ACC history against one of the top 10 teams in the country but it did not happen.

It's time for people quit bitching about Met Life and drive 4.5 hours to NJ to watch the boys play in an great NFL stadium and have a couple of beers in the Lexus Club suite.

Oh wait September 27, 2014 will be a perfect day to rake leaves .

We've had season tix since the 60's and been through all the ups and downs. So your post and others don't apply to me. But I'm not going to knock other locals that don't go to the games anymore or go to fewer than they used to. If you've paid attention over the years, SU has done almost everything they can to discourage attendance. That includes an inferior product for over a decade.


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[billsin01]

Unfortunately there's too many like you around here. So go grab your rake and jump on when they get decent again. Then you can tell everybody how you've had season
Tickets since 1924 .

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I get your sentiment, I do. But I spend way too much time on this forum and watching these games (granted, on DVR hours after they are played) to worry about being considered a 'true' fan. I'll never lie about having season tix. I did do some raking, however, which is pretty funny. I used to feel how you feel -- that there was no excuse for not selling out the dome each week -- but I don't know, I just don't feel that way anymore. I have tix for the game at UMD and I'll go and take the kids -- but I'd be lying if I said I was super excited about it. I'll be pleasantly surprised if I see an exciting product on the field on Saturday.

 

[billsin01]

It's time for people quit bitching about Met Life and drive 4.5 hours to NJ to watch the boys play in an great NFL stadium and have a couple of beers in the Lexus Club suite.

Oh wait September 27, 2014 will be a perfect day to rake leaves .

Wait -- I'm a leaf-raker but I go to the games in NYC. A game against a top flight opponent and a cool weekend in NYC is a good thing, IMO. I'm simply stating that I can see not sitting in the dome on a beautiful fall day in upstate NY (I no longer live there) when you know you've got 5-6 months of cold/snow/rain ahead of you. I know people think that's insane, but I can see where those folks are coming from. And, to be honest, I'm not sure how people carve out four hours in the middle of the afternoon for football each week if they have multiple kids involved in activities. I'm essentially a shuttle service all weekend.

 

[billsin01]

Well,I guess 60 to 70,000 fans at good,well supported programs for a few hours on a Saturday. Maybe you two can administer the syracuefairweatheredfan.com site.

Wait, how can I be a fair weather fan when:

A) I'm more likely to go to a game in foul weather than fair weather
and
B) I've been posting on this board regularly, watching all these games, traveling to NYC for games and genuinely taking a strong interest in this program when in the last 11 years the absolutely unquestioned pinnacle was an 8-5 season.

I don't know -- if it will make you feel better I'll buy an orange v-neck sweater, drink some watered down miller light, and jingle my keys at the TV while telling my kids to sit down each week. In fact, I'll even go ballistic when a coach who said this was his dream job *gasp* leaves for the NFL and *DOUBLE GASP* takes a bunch of his staff with him!! Would that help?