2 Points. First, on attendance. I thought UNLV did a really good job trying to get people to this game. The extra free tickets to season ticket holders was nice, and it resulted in a decent chunk of UNLV fans on the visitor side (which would have been a ghost town without the freebies, IMO). While I wish that more would have come, and especially students, I will give a SLIGHT pass since it was a 1-AA team and we were 0-3. Let's say we beat Reno on Saturday, though. It will be extremely disheartening if there aren't 25k or so at the stadium for SJSU. Don't give me the "Vegas wants a winner" crap if SBS doesn't have a good crowd after 2 wins in the first 2 winnable games of the season.
Secondly, on overreacting and
@j. spilotro's points. The key for this season, to me, is that this team is consistently outperforming expectations. Without exception, every game we have come out looking better than people thought. Another poster said a week or so ago that our scores vs. the spreads is telling. It's true. We are 3-1 ATS. And that 1 loss has a HUGE asterisk by it since it was the UCLA game, where Decker's injury totally derailed our chances. And even without Decker, that was a 10-0 game going into halftime.
If you are basing your optimism on this game alone, maybe you can say that it is an overreaction. But if you look at the entire season, there is no reason that fans should hold their optimism for this team. 7 of the 8 remaining games are unquestionably winnable, with the only holdout against BSU, which I believe we will keep closer than everyone expected/expects. I see no reason to think that we will stop exceeding expectations and that we can make a push to be knocking on the door to bowl eligibility.