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(10-10-2021 09:48 AM)GreenFreakUAB Wrote:  ...still better than most in C-USA... I watched some of the FIU-Charlotte game on ...Thursday night? - and in FIU's 26,000 seat stadium, it was about 10-15 percent occupied at best... thus around 3,000 - 3,500 attendance tops (couldn't even find an 'official attendance total' anywhere)... yeah, FIU is a cellar dweller, but in a town that is at least 3 times larger then The Ham, and an enrollment 2-1/2 times what we have, seems like they could at LEAST have 10,000 there... unless they are still under some crowd restrictions or something (which hasn't been a 'thing' in Florida anyway, unless imposed by the school).

As for US, again there were lots of folks 'mingling' the concourses - lounge area... it seemed to be a bit more crowded in the 103 section as well. As for students, my daughter was going, but has midterms next week, so she decided to study instead... not sure if that was the norm for them, but it did put a dent in the student section for sure... ...and she also noted that lots of the students just hang out tailgating and never actually go in the game - not sure how you can fix that...

That's actually pretty much the norm - especially when the sun it like it was yesterday. Hopefully, the area beneath the scoreboard directly about student seating will help with this as it gets colder.