Additionally, OSU has been horrible for 4 seasons in a row.
So making it to the second round of the NCAA tournament = horrible?
Interesting.
7 of 12 seasons, OSU did not have better fan support. Furthermore, OU was on a role the first few years of GIA expansion. Even if GIA was full, so was the LNC.
Hogwash.
From the time that new GIA opened until Sean Sutton's reign of terrror, there was
no question that OSU had much better fan support.
While it wasn't 100% full for every game, GIA was generally packed out for almost every game in that time frame. There were very few games in that time frame that had fewer than 10,000 people in the arena, even for the worst games in December. Once in conference play, the arena was always full.
And don't give me the official university attendence figures. For the first several years of new GIA, OSU was reporting "butts in seats" while OU (and almost everyone else) was reporting "tickets sold."
Had OSU been reporting "tickets sold" in those first 3-4 years, every game would be listed as 13,611, because every game was offically sold out. There was a waiting list for season tickets.
Of course, that has changed now, but don't give me any revisionist history about how the crowds at LNC were "the same" as in GIA in those days. LNC was always packed for OSU, Texas, Kansas, maybe one or two other conference games and that was it.
Just anecdotally, there were constantly threads on the OU Insider LNC board in those days lamenting the lack of attendence in LNC. You never saw those kinds of threads on OSU message boards until the past few years.