Honestly a couple of Butler type basketball seasons and a couple of Northern Illinois football seasons and the Convo would be sold out nearly every game the students were in session, and Peden would have to undergo an immediate expansion.
Not even remotely true, IMO. Keep playing these sort of schedules and what you've seen this year is about as good as it gets. No matter how good we are, the Oaklands and St. Bonaventures of the world aren't exciting the casual fan. Heck, they're not exciting the die-hard fans.
Now football...possibly. We're much closer to selling out Peden than the Convo. Cheifly because, by D1 standards, we have a small football stadium. By those same standards, we have a massive basketball arena. We average only 2,000 empty seats for football. Conversely, we average 7,000 empty seats for basketball. To sell out the Convo, it's going to take Dad's Weekend or a big-time opponent.