The most the tickets were sold though. A lot of people have stopped trying to get tickets because the 'know' they can't even when they can. I think the best thing NDSU could have done a couple years back would have been to allow some amount of tailgating during the game to have a place that isn't constrained by the dome that could keep growing on game day. Make a game day the thing you did even if you didn't get tickets, and maybe you'll find tickets to get into the dome, maybe you don't.