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[QUOTE="OttoMets, post: 151777, member: 716"]
If we're making a fair comparison, it wouldn't be between attendance in a potentially very good season (in which we're #1 for an extended period) and a decade in which we had more than a few disappointing teams.
 
Of course we're running ahead this year. For starters, ticket brokers bought SU tickets in record numbers prior to this year. Our big three second semester weekend games this year are West Virginia, Connecticut, and Louisville (last year they were Villanova, Rutgers, and DePaul). That's good for a significant bump.
 
My point is that 23,000 for the last Saturday evening game before the semester begins is a poor crowd for Syracuse (another comparison: our home game on that same day last year, against Cincinnati with an unpopular noon start time, drew 1,000 more people than Providence did on Saturday).
 
One would think that as many people as have come to the big weeknight games in recent years (as someone else noted, over 26,000) would want to show up to see the #1 team play Pittsburgh. It's anything but a run-of-the-mill Monday night game, but it looks like we'll have a pretty run-of-the-mill crowd.
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