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Season attendance topped 100,000 for the fourth time in program history today ... and the third time in the last three seasons

What year was before the recent string?

1984-85

PonyPride wrote:1984-85

How many more did Moody hold back then?

PonySnob wrote:

PonyPride wrote:1984-85

How many more did Moody hold back then?

I think it had been downsized to 8998 or something close to that. That initial Moody remodel was after the Mavericks surprised everyone by making it to the playoffs ahead of schedule

Charleston Pony wrote:

PonySnob wrote:

PonyPride wrote:1984-85

How many more did Moody hold back then?

I think it had been downsized to 8998 or something close to that. That initial Moody remodel was after the Mavericks surprised everyone by making it to the playoffs ahead of schedule

Wikipedia shows 9,007 so very close to your number

7,000 (2013-present)
8,998 (2000-2013)
9,007 (1983-2000)
8,900 (1972-1983)
9,305 (1956-1972)

I remember being part of a 10k crowd when IT's Mustangs took on Rick Bullock's TTech squad in a battle for SWC supremacy. We had courtside pullout bleachers and SRO on the floor in those days...probably weren't very popular with local fire marshall but I remember how Moody rocked that night! Did not realize we were that far over "capacity"

Charleston Pony wrote:I remember being part of a 10k crowd when IT's Mustangs took on Rick Bullock's TTech squad in a battle for SWC supremacy. We had courtside pullout bleachers and SRO on the floor in those days...probably weren't very popular with local fire marshall but I remember how Moody rocked that night! Did not realize we were that far over "capacity"

Take Wikipedia with a grain of salt, I thought it was 10K capacity at one point too

CalallenStang wrote:

Charleston Pony wrote:I remember being part of a 10k crowd when IT's Mustangs took on Rick Bullock's TTech squad in a battle for SWC supremacy. We had courtside pullout bleachers and SRO on the floor in those days...probably weren't very popular with local fire marshall but I remember how Moody rocked that night! Did not realize we were that far over "capacity"

Take Wikipedia with a grain of salt, I thought it was 10K capacity at one point too

9007 was definitely the correct capacity in the mid 1980s.

In my day (early 70's), Moody was a mirror image of Cameron Indoor and I think Duke lists Cameron's capacity at 9,314 but any way you cut it, we packed several hundred more into Moody than there were seats to accommodate. I remember several games where, as a student, you stood the entire game in those courtside bleachers, or on the floor. As the former Baylor Coach Jim Haller used to say, Moody has always been one of the great "holler houses". The new Moody is great because we don't need 9-10,000 seats any more and as long as we have an enthusiastic 5-6k crowd no matter who we play, Moody provides a nice home court advantage for our guys.

Charleston Pony wrote:I remember being part of a 10k crowd when IT's Mustangs took on Rick Bullock's TTech squad in a battle for SWC supremacy.

I was at that game. Sitting on the front row of the pullout bleachers - where the red seats are now.

So more people have watched our basketball team than our football team this year. Can't blame them


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I am guessing that even when we had 9000+ at a game back in the SWC days, there were probably at least 3,000 opposing teams fans in the house (given that the sell outs were likely against UT, Ark, TT, A&M etc). I remember the '93 SWC Championship and the games against A&M and UT had heavy doses of opposing teams fans (the A&M yell leaders were on the floor starting Aggie Chants in Moody - not sure why they were even allowed down there!). Rice was the exception, probably 80% SMU 20% Rice.

These days, with Moody filled with 90% SMU fans, there is a much larger Home court advantage. I like the fact that the opponents can't easily get tix to most of our big games.

PonyTime wrote:I am guessing that even when we had 9000+ at a game back in the SWC days, there were probably at least 3,000 opposing teams fans in the house (given that the sell outs were likely against UT, Ark, TT, A&M etc). I remember the '93 SWC Championship and the games against A&M and UT had heavy doses of opposing teams fans (the A&M yell leaders were on the floor starting Aggie Chants in Moody - not sure why they were even allowed down there!). Rice was the exception, probably 80% SMU 20% Rice.

These days, with Moody filled with 90% SMU fans, there is a much larger Home court advantage. I like the fact that the opponents can't easily get tix to most of our big games.

I remember in the NIT three years ago LSU fans thought they would take Moody over and we overpowered them w/ noise. I dont recall any other games in the last few years w/ a large fan base in Moody.

I remember as a student going to the Texas game the last year of the SWC at Moody and it was probably 60% UT/40% SMU. Their fans took over Moody and their team ran ours out of the building. I went to most of the games that year but I didn't appreciate the significance of what was going on. I was too naive to realize what the breakup of the conference meant to SMU athletics. No one was tweeting out stories to let me know we were about to be royally screwed. Hard to believe that was twenty years ago...