How hard is it to show up and support your nationally ranked football team?<\/p>\n
PublishedNovember 8, 2025 4:36 PM EST\u2022UpdatedNovember 8, 2025 4:36 PM EST<\/p>\n
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I don’t know what has gotten into me, but lately I’ve been the most vocal critic of fanbases being unable or unwilling to sell out their home stadium.<\/p>\n
I’ve taken my fair share of shots this season at the Ole Miss Rebels either playing to a half-empty Vaught-Hemingway<\/a> or begging the fans to show up to their conference night game,<\/a> but today I’ve decided to focus my crosshairs further south.<\/p>\n The Miami Hurricanes have a notorious fanbase in the sense that they routinely have trouble filling the 65,000 seats that make up Hard Rock Stadium, regardless of the team’s record.<\/p>\n Sure, anyone can sell out a season opener at night against a top-ten Notre Dame team, but can you do it for a 3:30 conference game against 3-6 Syracuse?<\/p>\n This is a question the Canes tried to answer by practically giving away tickets to the game this week.<\/p>\n Four bucks to do just about anything in this day and age is pretty remarkable, but Miami fans could’ve seen their team play live and in person for the price of a large diet soda.<\/p>\n Did it work?<\/p>\n I’ll let you be the judge, but the early returns are dubious at best.<\/p>\n I showed you a game highlight from the end of the first quarter to show you I’m not cherrypicking a photograph from an hour and a half before gametime.<\/p>\n If I had to make a generous estimate, I’d say there are 40,000 fans in attendance for this one.<\/p>\n That’s kind of pathetic.<\/p>\n