The crowd of over 9300 fans really doesn't surprise me, because I've known all along that ISU fans turn out in droves once we start winning. We're now getting attendance figures of what EWU now gets, and they've had a winning tradition for quite some time to build on (although yesterday there were over 11,000 fans at their stadium, because Montana fans travel well). MSU and Montana are the teams in the league that still have much better attendance than we do, but hey, if we can continue to win and build a tradition here, then within the next few years I don't think it to be too far-fetched to have to tear down a wall to add more seating in the dome. And we could eventually approach the attendance figures as to what MSU has. I really do believe this. We could easily surpass the figures that 1-A Idaho has within a few years, mainly because there are not very many people that live in the northern Idaho area to draw from. And as long as they're adamant and insistent upon playing at the 1-A level, they'll probably continue to field losing teams.
I'm not sure if ISU will win this Saturday in Bozeman, I'm not going to make any predictions. But don't think for a minute that coming out of Bozeman with a W is out of the question for this team.