Just over 5500 came out for senior day last year, but that's still 150 short of this weekend's announced attendance. Now, I don't know if there was some sort of promotion that brought that many people to Cassell, but putting 5600 rear ends in the seats on a weekend when the NFL playoffs are center stage and the students are out of town is an accomplishment. The problem was, nobody wanted to see any of the teams in the league, and the Hokies were not drawing anyone with their own play either. So, here's the plan. We need to help the team by lending our support.
Students come back next week.
Only WVU and Miami are on weeknights. The other five are on Saturdays. If the same 5600 people who showed up to see Villanova this weekend can make it, I believe we can get 4400 students out of the dorms and sell out Cassell for at least two of those games. I am a realist. For those of you who are students, you've probably never seen Cassell full to the rafters and loud.