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[QUOTE="Cusefan95, post: 5160829, member: 173"]
Honestly Clemson fans could buy upper level end zone seats, sell the other games and pay less than if they bought through Clemson - so that’s not surprising.

I think people are conflating how many tickets a school requests (which was your original context) with how many fans they bring.  They are two very different things.  I could see the Stanford administration - knowing they have a lot of NYC alumni and having no experience with Syracuse for football - playing it safe and requesting the full contractual allotment just to make sure they had enough.  The traditional ACC schools had enough info on how fans historically travelled (and bought from them) to other east coast schools that they didn’t request the full possible allotment when we joined the ACC.

I don’t know for sure, but I think schools are slightly less concerned about getting tickets allotted than they were 25 years ago - fans have enough other legal options now that getting tickets through their schools isn’t as attractive as it was in the 80s and 90s.  I feel like Syracuse made a bigger deal out of the ability to get road tickets then compared to now - but that might just be because it was something I was interested in then and wouldn’t even consider now (except for rare cases). The Stanford game might have been a weird outlier against the overall trend in this regard.
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