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How Syracuse drew 40,000 people to the Carrier Dome

Syracuse hosted its biggest football crowd of the 2018 season Saturday night when North Carolina State came to the Carrier Dome.

Luring 40,769 people to a football game wasn’t luck or happenstance, but in part the culmination of months of work and a week-long blitz from Anthony Di Fino, Syracuse associate athletics director for business development. Prior to the game, Di Fino highlighted two main groups SU targeted to fill the Dome: Students and residents of nearby cities and towns like Rochester, Watertown or Utica.

“To market a game in six days, that to us is the toughest part,” Di Fino said.