We have one of the best teams in the country and still can't sell out all the tickets?? Is Halloween really more important than football? This wouldn't be the case at other colleges.

BSU honks...you know why people call you fair weathered fans? this is it. a top 5 team(deserved or not) and you can't even fill up a 33k stadium? seriously? come on. nebraska fills a 80k stadium with half the population of Boise area.

The difference is some people bleed for their school, others do it while their popular. If BSU lost a couple games they would struggle to get past 30k at games.

I have said it before. BSU fans want the respect as if they are a big time program, but they cannot even sell out their small stadium when ranked high in the standings.

The reason that larger programs will not schedule a home-home series is for this. BSU cannot sell out a small stadium, thus they have no financial justification to build a larger stadium to increase revenues.

Clemson, who is not the greatest of football programs historically sells out their 80,000 seat stadium when the town only has 20,000 residents!

does it matter to you that New York can't sell out it's World Series tickets either ? Once again.......it's the economy. How many sporting options does Nebraska have ? If Boise State was the only option in town, I could see your point. Being a top 5 or 10 team is not changing people's financial standing, (unemployment at near 10% included). I would like it if we sell out every game too, but we have to give the economy time to turn around. Petersen, and his staff are not stupid, they know it will happen.

In hindsight, I bet the Idaho or Nevada game will sell out. San Jose just happens to suck this year..

BSU football, for the most part, is boring. Personally I derive no pleasure from watching massacres week in and week out.

would have been nice if article told how to get tickets. I seldom go, but I am interested...

YOu forget that BSU is a growing program that has only been DIV 1 for 13 years. Oregon has only sold out the last 60 games. Late 70's, the 80's and the early 90's there were games there that were very small. I went to a game in the mid 80's and there were less than 20,000. Whay is it that BSU must be compared to colleges with 100 year histories all the time? Because you are all jealous of how fast we are growing and that we are getting as much recognition as the 100 year plus old dominant schools. Jocdoc, pull that object out of your #ss. It might get stuck in there.

If we look at attendance in a more objective manner, as a percentage of capacity, then BSU does very well. Based on 2008 data, Boise State ranked 15th nationally in attendance as a percentage of capacity, at 100.9%. Navy was #1 at 116.6%, followed by Oregon (108.6%), Nebraska (104.9%), Oklahoma (103.6%), and Kentucky (102.7%). They will, once again, be very close to 100% attendance this year, as well, given the filled-to-the-gills Oregon game, and the sure-to-be-more-than-sellout Idaho and Nevada games to come. The fact is, if they hadn't added 1800 seats this season, every game so far would have been a sellout, too.

BSU is good but not that good. The only reason they are ranked so high is that they go undefeated. Do the BSU fans really think they are a top 5-10 team? I doubt it. They are overrated. They play a really weak schedule. The BCS also likes to have a few dark horses/cinderalla teams to talk about to juice up the season.If BSU had to play bigger teams on a more regular basis their record would not be that good. Maybe 7-4. But, you know I would prefer that they play the bigger schools and have their record not be so good. It is boring watching them play the teams they play now. I even think they might play better against the bigger schools. They need to get use to it on a regular basis. They are playing awful right now. They are playing with no authority or drive. But, if the game was against a better team, they might be more psyched up with more on the line and play better. It happened with Oregon. They definitly need to get out of this conference. The other teams in this conference are hurting them and the fans.

Oregon's 60 games of sellouts covers more than ten years (they average six games at home per year). Eugene is actually smaller than the Treasure Valley and the stadium is considerably larger. Even when the Ducks suck, people go to the games. And the economy in Eugene is slumped more than this area. The lack of respect for BSU has more to do with fan support than with the team's performance or abilities. When fans start turning out rain, snow or shine and pay the prices set, BSU will benefit nationally.

..move to florida and whine about the Gators lack of offense

Duh! What's San Jose State's record again, and who did they beat?

A.) would you support BSU Football before the statesman?
B.) would you support another newspaper other than the our current birdcage liner?
C.) is the statesman really a newspaper?
D.) man-up Brian

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There is no life in Idaho...it is a mirror site on god's server. You were dreaming but it is over. Go to your residence and await our commands and THEN we will restore control...

Boise State's excess ticket issue is just not that big of a deal. Haters - find something else to hate about...

From Yahoo Rivals.com

Monday with Mike: Potential BCS Matchups

"We talked about the importance of selling tickets and turning on TV sets when we discussed the BCS earlier. That means this number—33,541—can’t make BCS officials happy. That’s the attendance at TCU’s home game Saturday against UNLV—almost 11,000 short of capacity. A team that went into the game ranked sixth in the BCS draws 11,000 short of capacity for homecoming? Weak"

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news?slug=rivals-333159&prov=rivals&type=lgns