I'll say it one more time (I'm already blue in the face)....put a quality opponent in front of us, and the fan base will respond.
Put Norfolk State out there and watch the seats collect dust. It's really simple.
Are you including regular season away games? Game at Missouri a few years ago, very small Ohio crowd-several hundred I would say. Northwestern a few years ago, best away OU crowd I've seen, but had to be less than 2000. Have we sold our allotment at VT when we played there? I don't think so.