The empty part behind the endzone is actually the third area to fill up. They do the normal student section, then the area behind it in the 300s then those seats next to the band. … or it was that way when I went.

The students now dont remember SU ever being good. These kids were in middle and elementary school in 2000. When I went back for homecoming kids have not been paying attention and still view the football team the same way they did under GRob.

Its sad.

…then why not sell game day walk up tickets to the section. It is one of the most visable parts of the stadium and it is EMPTY!!! Give the tickets to inner city kids, give them to the bums asking for money I don’t care who is sitting there, it needs to have SOMEONE sitting there. It looks like crap to those who come to support the team, and it looks like crap to recruits and others watching on TV. If the students are not going to fill it, find someone, anyone. How about rolling some injured Vets up from the VA or cancer kids from the children’s hospital. Let someone sit there.

my picture highlights the end zone, but look at the so called best student seats and you will see they and their keys only filled about 10 rows.

I’ve been in the front row with my face painted for every home game this year. I even made the trip down to Penn State. While the lack of student support bothers me too, let me just give you a few reasons why so many students do not show up.

The number one reason a lot of upper classmen do not attend is because they were soured over the past few years. They were sick of spending money to sit through blowouts. While the team has been much better this year, many students still ave the belief that the team sucks and they don’t want to spend their money.

The second reason is the noon starting times. The Northwestern game and even the Maine game had almost capacity student section attendence and that is because they started at 7 pm. I have a lot of friends who would rather sleep after a lon night of partying then get up to go to the football game. While it bothers me, thats just the way it is. The average college student does not want to wake up at 11 am on a Saturday.

Those are the reasons why the student section has been bad this year. I’m really not trying to defend anyone because it makes me mad as a student who supports the team and coach marrone to have such little fan support, but its just the way it is and sadly the way it will be until SU becomes a Big East Contender again

to the students who show, and again maybe I’m just a college sports nut, but when I went to St. Bonaventure our basketball teams were pretty much garbage and we still packed the student section every game. I would think part of the whole SU experience would be the chance to support and experience rooting for a major (in history) D-I football team come hell or high water. Noon or 3:30 or 7, if you can drag your ass to the dome for a noon game 4 Saturdays out of the year that is sad. Oh and by the way, the Maine game attendance pretty much sucked too.

But I can’t. The upperclassmen especially. When I was at Syracuse (mid to late 90’s), the team was really good, loaded with NFL talent, and bowling every year. We would drag our asses out for noon starts all the time, because the product on the field was worth it. The last four years – in particular – have been so pathetic that it’s hard to blame kids who are just building their loyalty and attachment to the program to show up en masse for these games. Why should they? The poor kids have known nothing but awful football since they’ve been up on the Hill. It’s sad, but it speaks to yet another uphill struggle that Doug Marrone faces in his “rejuvenating” process. Getting the students and recent alums to “buy in.”