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[QUOTE="OttoMets, post: 3110077, member: 716"]
I guess of all threads this is more or less on topic here, so since you mentioned it, here's the most compelling argument that they made up the number:

a) Capacity is 49,262;
b) Every year before a Duke or Georgetown basketball game Waters or Ditota will e-mail Sala or Wildhack or someone and ask about goosing attendance by offering SRO options. SU's company line is that they won't do that (1) because of the fire hazard and (2) because there's already an extra burden on the ushers having to pull nitwits out of seats they don't have tickets for, so they don't want to invite in even more people who won't have seats.

You'd really have to be willing to suspend common sense to think that SU's risk management, the Syracuse Fire Department, and SUAD's on-the-record-as-opposed-to-SRO leadership teamed up to oversell capacity by 1,000 on Saturday night.

**To head off the "stop complaining, ya party pooper" replies, it was a fun crowd and a big crowd. It was also not a 50,000+ crowd and it's silly that SU wants to invite a bunch of humans with brains and eyes to pretend it was.
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