Syracuse Fans Just Kidding About All That "Support" Stuff

by Sean Keeley on Sep 15, 2009 1:25 PM EDT

I was pretty sure we were all on the same page about this. Despite being 0-2, this was a far different 0-2 than the 0-2 we all saw through last year. This was an 0-2 of Hope. An Obama 0-2. The kind of 0-2 you could get behind because you knew there was a brighter future, positive returns and more affordable health care just around the corner.

Guess not.

A school spokesman said today that "approximately 30,000" tickets have been sold for the game, though there was considerable activity at the box office Tuesday morning. Night games also tend to have big walk-up sales.

Oof. I mean, it's not even AT 30,000, it's "approximately" 30,000. That means 27,000.

$15 tickets just ain't gonna cut it this week. Syracuse fans might require DOCTOR Gross to personally deliver each ticket in a velvet-lined box along with a $20 gift certificate to Spaghetti ~~Factory~~ Warehouse if he wants any chance of packing the Dome like two weeks ago.

Assuming walk-up sales continue as a regular pace, we're probably looking at around 35K for the game, and that's the announce. As Donnie notes, "Syracuse averaged 33,474 per contest" last season, the 2nd lowest average in Dome history.

After concerns it wouldn't be, the game will in fact be televised locally but I doubt that has anything to do with ticket sales. The Northwestern game was a national broadcast. Donnie posits the question...should Syracuse black out games like the Northwestern or Maine ones? My answer would be that Syracuse hasn't earned the right to call that kind of shot yet. As we're already seeing, SU fans are more than happy to call that bluff.

As if Syracuse didn't need this win bad enough. With Maine on the horizon, this might be the game that determines the strength of Dome attendance for the rest of the season. No pressure, Doug.

Update: The Three Idiots give you all the reasons you need to buy a ticket to the game and NBCSports is looking at the ticket sales # through the glass half-full approach.

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"an obama 0-2"

classic..

by orngfan on Sep 15, 2009 1:42 PM EDT reply actions

Build

an outdoor stadium!

by nleary66 on Sep 15, 2009 1:44 PM EDT reply actions

Hmmm...

methinks my cable package here in Michigan does not get the Time Warner channel. It’s a tremendous package and all, but it is a little light on the local Syracuse programming.

Is that Orange Access thing worthwhile? Will it be the Time Warner feed or just a security camera focused in the general direction of the field?

by ezcuse on Sep 15, 2009 1:49 PM EDT up reply actions

you should invest in a sling box…

by stumpycuse on Sep 15, 2009 3:39 PM EDT up reply actions

Not sure if your internet provider has it, but the game is on the ESPN360 schedule.

by KaiserKyle on Sep 15, 2009 5:24 PM EDT up reply actions

Hmm...

I watched a lot of the WVU-ECU game via ESPN360 last weekend. Non-HD is teh suck. Of course, so are Big Ten boosting announcers (not unexpected on the Big Ten Network, but still annoying).

by drothgery on Sep 15, 2009 5:33 PM EDT up reply actions

Just Ranted about this myself

rather than re-type -http://www.idiotsonsports.com/2009/09/plenty-of-good-seats-available.html

by Russianator on Sep 15, 2009 1:47 PM EDT reply actions

Pam Ward

On a feminity scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being Semenya Caster and a 10 being Erin Andrews, Pam Ward would not even “round up” to a 2.

by ezcuse on Sep 15, 2009 1:55 PM EDT reply actions

Questions of scale

I would actually make Sophia Loren my “10” and Bea Arthur my “1”. That said….3. Cuz maybe she’s real sensitve.

by lemonysnicket9 on Sep 15, 2009 3:31 PM EDT up reply actions

The locals...

…have GOT to step up. They can’t rely on alums driving hours and hours to fill the Dome every week. Those of us on here that are alums…I mean…come on. Is there anything better to do on a Saturday night in Syracuse than go to the Carrier Dome for a 7:00 p.m. game? I don’t mean that in a snarky way at all…I just mean that the Dome is a great place, especially for night football games. Totally different inherent atmosphere than noon kickoffs like the Minnesota game. Come on Orange fans!! Scrape together those ducats and fill the damned Carrier Dome!

"(BARF)" - Donovan McNabb, during his game winning drive against Virginia Tech in 1998

by kotite4ever on Sep 15, 2009 1:55 PM EDT reply actions

And with Boonah's competing birthday gala...

the attendance for Maine will be 9,200.

by ezcuse on Sep 15, 2009 1:58 PM EDT reply actions

The Dome Photo

Why is the upper level so dirty? They should call it Tetanus Town.

Ok, really need to ramp up work productivity….

by ezcuse on Sep 15, 2009 2:01 PM EDT reply actions

because you can see more of the concrete which does not have an even color to it… more of a brown swirl.

by ryanwk628 on Sep 15, 2009 2:02 PM EDT up reply actions

I have to admit

My freshman and soph year, I used to go to the games all the time. I was front row for the Iowa game where we couldnt get 1 yard. (ugh) However, my jr and sr year I only went to 2 games and left by half time during each one. I lived on sumner and had free tickets. The games were frustrating to watch.

However this is exciting football. The Minn game showed some hard hitting and good plays. If I were in Syracuse now, I would be there.

by ryanwk628 on Sep 15, 2009 2:07 PM EDT reply actions

that makes me feel so old… “back in my day we didnt have hard hitting blue collar football. You students need to apprieciate what youve got”

by ryanwk628 on Sep 15, 2009 2:13 PM EDT up reply actions

Not really a serious question

I do appreciate the scientific response. I also would have accepted:

(a) beer stains concrete, duh.

and

(b) the unwashed masses that sit up there need to learn how to clean up after themselves.

by ezcuse on Sep 15, 2009 2:09 PM EDT reply actions

we used to have to run all the stairs in the dome ( it was called a “dome tour”) so I spent a lot of time looking down at the concrete and making sure my feet didnt miss it.

by ryanwk628 on Sep 15, 2009 2:11 PM EDT up reply actions

$15 tickets

How does one get these tickets?

by rsmith200266 on Sep 15, 2009 2:17 PM EDT reply actions

http://www.suathletics.com/news/2009/9/9/FB_0909090107.aspx

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by Sean Keeley on Sep 15, 2009 3:40 PM EDT up reply actions

Interesting idea to leave the $20 in the seat, but don’t you mean, Spaghetti Warehouse? Not to quibble, but I’m not familiar with no Spaghetti Factory. Perhaps it has been subcontracted to Vietnam. (?)

I think, also, with the Fair no longer town, they are going to lose a substantial proportion of mouth-breathers. That just happens.

by lemonysnicket9 on Sep 15, 2009 3:25 PM EDT reply actions

Spaghetti Warehouse, Cheesecake Factory

all the same to me

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by Sean Keeley on Sep 15, 2009 3:41 PM EDT up reply actions

Typical response from a left coast blog

that happens to cover Syracuse athletics. Moral relativist. Gypsy

by lemonysnicket9 on Sep 15, 2009 5:17 PM EDT up reply actions

I'm going to open my own restaurant

Chicken Tender Assembly Line.

We’ll put Tully’s out of business in a month!

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by Sean Keeley on Sep 15, 2009 6:20 PM EDT up reply actions

That could be cool.

So you can put together your chickn tender meal as you proceed along the assembly line, greeted by smiling happy young people? You’ll have to think outside the box as far as condiments and garnishments of course. But, goood luck! Promising.

I would still be sorry to see Tully’s and its 617 televisions go. History n stuff.

by lemonysnicket9 on Sep 15, 2009 8:18 PM EDT up reply actions