Pittsburgh ticket sales

[OttoMets]

Tired topic, I know, but are we looking at a really small crowd again tomorrow night?

While Ticketmaster isn't entirely accurate, it tends to overstate sales. And it shows us at least 1,900 short of the Marquette crowd, with many more seats than were available a day before yesterday's game (http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/00004748CC8E9498?artistid=841529&majorcatid=10004&minorcatid=7).

I would've thought that another shot at Pittsburgh, a shot at 20-0, a shot at the Rupp-tying 876th for Boeheim, and the first game of our school record-tying 6th consecutive week at #1 would be a huge draw. (Similarly, one would think a Saturday night game would draw better than 23,000, but perhaps not.)

 

[longislandcuse]

Apparantly people only show up for the big games. Sucks, because once were in the ACC, were only going to have at the most 2 of those per year. (UNC/Duke)

23,000 would be great for any other program but our fans are better than that.

 

[cto]

Most students will be back tomorrow (classes begin on Tuesday). That should help

 

[BRNCUSEFRVCUSE]

Most students will be back tomorrow (classes begin on Tuesday). That should help

Oh really classes begin on tuesday for the spring semester, So much for Dion, and or Fabs grades being an issue and missing time. Where are all those ppl with thier sources saying what they heard bout. Ridiculous.

 

[OttoMets]

Return of the students should help, but it's stunning to see non-endcourt tickets (305-315) available by the hundreds the day before the game. And that wasn't the case on Ticketmaster the week before the Providence game; if anything, one would expect more Providence tickets to have been available since 302 and 303 (usually student overflow) were also available.

This suggests they'd need a very strong walk-up to even match last night's attendance.

 

[IthacaMatt]

Pitt will have a good crowd. Even tho they're 0-5, this is a PAYBACK game, big time.

 

[Marsh01]

Pitt will have a good crowd. Even tho they're 0-5, this is a PAYBACK game, big time.

Amen, no mercy.

 

[JohnCuse44]

Any less then 25,000 is bogus.

 

[DNABB5]

Amen, no mercy.

Amen, no mercy.

Sweep the leg.

Looking for a 95 40 game myself

 

[Marsh01]

Sweep the leg.

Looking for a 95 40 game myself

Get him a body bag!

 

[netman99]

Sweep the leg.

LOL Pretty funny

 

[HoustonCuse]

Oh really classes begin on tuesday for the spring semester, So much for Dion, and or Fabs grades being an issue and missing time. Where are all those ppl with thier sources saying what they heard bout. Ridiculous.

Why does the fact that classes begin Tuesday invalidate any possible truth to an academic standing issue with a player? The term starts Tuesday. Tomorrow is Monday. They would be eligible to play tomorrow. The telling game will be the Notre Dame game, which is after Tuesday. See how that works?

 

[upperdeck]

i thought they changed the way that worked? other wise would fball players ever not be able to play in bowl games? 2nd semester started when exams for first semester ended..

See Batts for Prov who started play this year on Dec 20..

 

[Cuseman78]

26K tomorrow night. How is that a bad crowd?

 

[PauliePeppas]

I wonder what uk would average if their arena had the capacity of the dome

 

[OttoMets]

26K tomorrow night. How is that a bad crowd?

If 26 shows, your drinks are on me. Where'd you get that number? That'd be terrific.

 

[Cuseman78]

If 26 shows, your drinks are on me. Where'd you get that number? That'd be terrific.

You don't think there are going to be 22k townies in the house tomorrow night? You realize students are back in the building right?

 

[OttoMets]

You don't think there are going to be 22k townies in the house tomorrow night? You realize students are back in the building right?

I do.

Even assuming a full pair of student sections, they'd need to sell about 2,500 more tickets to get to 26,000.

This is kind of a silly back-and-forth to have, but I follow Ticketmaster somewhat regularly and sales for tomorrow's game (including 302 and 303) are far behind those for the Providence game 24 hours before tip. It's not even close.

Of course we aren't comparing Syracuse to other schools; whether we're "top-three" in attendance isn't really relevant to the opinion that Syracuse is drawing poorly for Syracuse this year. 23,000 fans for a mid-January Saturday evening Big East game is bad for Syracuse (not for 320 other Division I schools), and 23,000 for a potentially historic Big Monday game isn't very good either.

 

[HoustonCuse]

There was just an article at the PS the other day that said SU is well ahead on attendance from the past couple years. They projected the biggest numbers since 2002-03.

 

[Cuseman78]

There was just an article at the PS the other day that said SU is well ahead on attendance from the past couple years. They projected the biggest numbers since 2002-03.

Exactly. I don't know how anybody can be complaining about attendance when we are going to finish with our highest attendance in a decade.

 

[LennX6]

Tired topic, I know, but are we looking at a really small crowd again tomorrow night?

While Ticketmaster isn't entirely accurate, it tends to overstate sales. And it shows us at least 1,900 short of the Marquette crowd, with many more seats than were available a day before yesterday's game (http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/00004748CC8E9498?artistid=841529&majorcatid=10004&minorcatid=7).

I would've thought that another shot at Pittsburgh, a shot at 20-0, a shot at the Rupp-tying 876th for Boeheim, and the first game of our school record-tying 6th consecutive week at #1 would be a huge draw. (Similarly, one would think a Saturday night game would draw better than 23,000, but perhaps not.)

My how time changes things. In 1981 I remember ppl this time of the year going crazy because we had 23000 at a home game vs St. John's. I hate to say it but I think TV does enter into it. Why brave this temperature and $4 beer when you got heat, the tube and a fridge next to you.

 

[sutomcat]

Exactly. I don't know how anybody can be complaining about attendance when we are going to finish with our highest attendance in a decade.

Agreed. Attendance is up enough that I made a post yesterday spectulating whether we might catch Kentucky and led the country in attendance this year (we are going to come closer than we have in a while but it isn't likely to happen).

FYI, there is a winter weather advisory for tonight. Looks like we could get some heavy snow starting around 6 PM. Right now it is 0 degrees and -12 with the wind chill factor. To get above 25K, we need help from places like Rochester, Binghamton and Utica. Some of those folks might be discouraged by the troubling forecast.

Issued by The National Weather Service
Binghamton, NY​

Mon, Jan 16, 2012, 4:04 AM EST​

​

... WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 7 PM THIS EVENING TO 7 AM EST TUESDAY...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BINGHAMTON HAS ISSUED A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR A LIGHT WINTRY MIX INCLUDING FREEZING RAIN... WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 7 PM THIS EVENING TO 7 AM EST TUESDAY.
* LOCATIONS... SOUTHERN CAYUGA... ONONDAGA... STEUBEN... SCHUYLER... CHEMUNG... TOMPKINS... CORTLAND... TIOGA... BRADFORD... WYOMING... AND LUZERNE COUNTIES.
* HAZARDS... LIGHT WINTRY MIX INCLUDING FREEZING RAIN.
* ACCUMULATIONS... LESS THAN A TENTH OF AN INCH OF ICE... AND LESS THAN AN INCH OF SNOW AND SLEET.
* TIMING... A LIGHT WINTRY MIX OF SLEET... SNOW... AND FREEZING RAIN WILL DEVELOP BEGINNING 7 PM THIS EVENING... GRADUALLY CHANGING TO PLAIN RAIN BEFORE 7 AM TUESDAY.
* TEMPERATURES... SLOWLY RISING FROM NEAR 30 THIS EVENING... TO ABOVE FREEZING BY DAWN TUESDAY MORNING.
* IMPACTS... HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS ON UNTREATED ROADWAYS.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY MEANS THAT PERIODS OF SNOW... SLEET... OR FREEZING RAIN WILL CAUSE TRAVEL DIFFICULTIES. BE PREPARED FOR SLIPPERY ROADS AND LIMITED VISIBILITIES... AND USE CAUTION WHILE DRIVING.
PLEASE REPORT SNOWFALL AND/OR ICE AMOUNTS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE AT 1-877-633-6772... OR BY EMAIL AT BGM.​

 

[SUSScuse]

My how time changes things. In 1981 I remember ppl this time of the year going crazy because we had 23000 at a home game vs St. John's. I hate to say it but I think TV does enter into it. Why brave this temperature and $4 beer when you got heat, the tube and a fridge next to you.

This made me laugh.
$4.00 beer? Guess you haven't braved the weather in quite some time.

 

[IthacaBarrel]

This made me laugh.
$4.00 beer? Guess you haven't braved the weather in quite some time.

Beers are more than that in bars...

 

[bigf1973]

Sweep the leg

Awesome John Kreese reference!