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[QUOTE="joct, post: 3222380, member: 2001"]
Yep...for a lot of reasons.  Quite a different era back then.  
- Good players stayed longer, so the talent was way better across the board.  Plus those teams were so entertaining, each game seemed to have a few plays that everyone would talk about later with the "did you see that" factor, even in a loss.
- Recognition of players on opposing teams, with matchups to look forward to.  There were 5-6 games that got the same treatment that the Duke games have had recently, or even more.  The Big East was loaded then. 
- No easy secondary ticket market to use.  Season ticket holders who couldn't use theirs gave/sold them to friends.  If you didn't have such a connection, if you had the chance to go, you went, because you never knew when you'd have a chance to get tickets again.  No watching how prices were shifting from your phone an hour before the game
-- Not all games were on TV.  Even if they were the TV experience was nothing compared to today.  If not that, there was Radio.  But no syracusefan.com or twitter feeds giving updates and highlights in real time.
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