I agree, definitely a 'must win'.

Also, Billy D probably would prefer more students at every game. From the time he came in and made student admission free he's shown that sort of commitment.

My thinking is it was an easier sell to Foley because the game wasn't going to sell out anyways.

This is part of why I thought everyone was dumb for suggesting we needed a 'new, bigger O'Dome' 2 years ago.

Remember Teddy Dupay (I know, now a despicable rapist who is rightly an outcast and should be scorned, but don't act like you didn't love him when he was in school) blasting the fans when the didn't turn out for the first home game after that first run to the national title game?

I've been going to games for too long to expect our newfound 'basketball tradition' to catch on that quickly. Having something other than a pansy-ass NIT team to watch these last couple of years might have helped, too. Billy D, please take that last sentence and print it on a banner in the weight room. Or throw them out of that weight room again. Because these guys think they know better than our all-time winningest, 3-time Final Four, 2-time National Champion head coach. And as hard as it can be to get worked up for a game at Athens against what Clay Travis called 'one of the worst college basketball teams of the modern era'... you shouldn't have to be worked up. And you shouldn't need 500 more students to beat Alabama at home to reverse a 2-game losing streak. But, we do, and so I couldn't be more excited for next year. Because if we make the tournament at all this year(which we need to, to get the experience for the run we could make next year), we won't be around long enough to screw with anyone's bracket.