For the sake of argument, let's say the population of the Youngstown area is zero, the enrollment at YSU is zero, total 2016 FB attendance was zero, and no Penguin fan has ever attended a YSU championship game. Why would you still not accept the maximum allotment of the risk-free e-tickets? The only way you undersupply your fan base is if there is a demand for >4k tickets, which would be a great problem to have. The excuse offered from the AD to Charles Grove was concern that JMU fans would buy our seats (despite there being safeguards against that)....so he gave our seats to JMU wholesale. There simply is no excusing that away. There is no blaming the fans of yesterday or today. It was pure incompetence. Plain and simple.
Change the subject. Quit retrying to repeat yourself 500 times to get the last word. Both teams ordered only paper and neither team used their allotment, so feel free to go over to JMU boards and complain abou thteir departmental staff. BS then and BS now ...MOVE ON.
I was responding to new information provided in a new thread, where after the SID lied to the Vindy, the AD then blames the people he screwed over....the fans...for his incompetence.
I looked at the box score for the 1999 title game. The attendance was >20k. So if he's correct, and only 500-1k YSU fans went, then the ratio of YSU fans to non-YSU fans was >1:39 -1:19. I don't think so.
As far as JMU goes, they are a different school with a different set of circumstances. Since they got 7k seats to our 1k (the absolute minimum order), I think it's reasonable to say they played their hand quite well. They completely outplayed us off the field. I hope that is reversed on the field despite our AD orchestrating a home field environment for our opponent.
FWIW, I've lost count of the stories I've heard of fans paying above face value for their tickets(call it an "AD Incompetence fee"), and also groups being divided and sitting scattered throughout the stadium.