What Do You Think The Lane Crowd Will be Like on Friday Night?

Hokie Nation got rave reviews from recruits, commentators and the Twittersphere for the electric atmosphere vs Ohio State on opening night. It was pretty cool to see. However, I was pretty surprised when I cut the Pitt game on last week because the North End Zone looked so empty. "North End Zone is the party zone, what's going on?" Then I saw the SEZ and that placed looked deserted. I'm not used to seeing that.

The attendance for the Pitt game was listed as 49,120 which was the lowest attendance for a Lane Stadium crowd since the Rutgers game in 1998 (42,452). I was wondering if it was Fall Break and the students were just gone, but Fall Break isn't til Oct. 16. Granted, it was a pretty miserable day so that may have contributed. Also, it still sounded pretty loud on TV (idk if it's just me, but it sounds like Fox and ACC Network games give you a better sense of the crowd noise than ESPN games).

So now we have a Thursday Friday night game on national TV with our ACC backs against the wall. So I'm wondering what you think Lane Stadium will be like vs NC State. I got a chance to go to the Miami game last year and it was rocking until we started getting our doors blown off. Once it became clear we were in for a beating, some of the fans hit the exits in a hurry (I'm guessing some people needed to get to work or class the following morning so they figured there was no need to hang around). That attendance around 64,000.

I'm hoping the atmosphere could be similar to early in the Miami game last year because that was another night when we were getting complimented by recruits for how loud we were (before we were silenced). Thoughts?

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