I didn't realize KU has that many students. ETSU has approx. 12,000. I think the avg. attendance for ASun teams last year was around 2500 (someone please correct me if I'm wrong).
ETSU has great fan support. We average around 4600 a game last year and always have a sizeable presence at away games too. I am definitely planning on traveling ot Kennesaw this upcoming season.

Not sure what the average is, but with the big public schools gone (gsu, troy, ucf) I imagine the average of the remaining private schools is around 2500-5000. 19000 is definitely one of the biggest of the remaining schools. FAU has 25000 but is only in asun for one more year.

It was bad that we had 44000 students but could only manage to get 2000 (or less!) to a bball game.

Mercer has somewhere between 3000-4000 undergrad. Our arena is 3100 seat maximum, we usually fill about half of it. Our top draw last year we had over 2800. I will also be traveling to the KSU game like I've mentioned in other threads, should be a lot of fun.

I think for a long time KSU had a higher percentage of the student population commuting, rather than living on campus. And KSU was a non-traditional school (meaning higher average age of student) until recently. That makes it harder to get students to come to games. Hopefully being Division I with a larger 18-24 student population living at or around campus will encourage higher attendance at athletic events.

Lucy,
You describe ETSU's student body exactly with one exception, of the 12,000 ETSU students there is a very large percentage of graduate students.

Interesting, BucDoc. I was not aware of that about ETSU. KSU doesn't offer a lot of graduate level programs yet, but they are growing that part of the curriculum.

ETSU has about 2000-2500 graduate students. Graduate degrees or certificates in 46 different disciplines/areas. 6 doctoral programs, not including the Med School. Moving from a Carnegie research intensive university classification to a research extensive classification.

If the numbers are still up to date, it is the number two public university in Tennessee with regards to research.

FYI, while the Tennessee Board of Regents System (the governing body of ETSU) is the fifth largest higher education system in the nation, the schools in Tennessee are really pretty small.

Many community colleges across the nation are larger than the University of Tennessee. BTW, you won't find many die hard ETSU fans that care at all for the big awringe.