Figured I'd clarify a few things on attendance numbers:
SDSU is one of the few schools in DI that does "actual attendance" rather than "paid attendance." Therefore, if SDSU says there was 2,000 in attendance, there was actually 2,000 people in the buidling, not 1,200 with 800 posing as empty seats.
Some school's "paid attendance" are closer to the "actual attendance" than others. There are schools that will just count all season ticketholders regardless of their presents at the game (which generally doesn't inflate the numbers too bad) and there are others that will count giveaway tickets and the entire capacity of the student section regardless of use.
The best way to expose severe numbers tampering is to look at the yearly ticket revenue. SDSU had over double the ticket revenue of every other state school combined (USD, Northern State, Black Hills State, School of Mines, Dakota State), which is interesting being that USD shows attendance figures not much lower than SDSU's.
And just so it doesn't look like I'm picking on USD, here is a video of over 3,400 screaming Golden Eagle fans when SDSU played at Oral Roberts last year (starts at the 25 sec mark):
Moral of the story: Attendance numbers can be deceiving!
