If you’ve watched a sporting event in 2020/21 since March, there’s a good chance you’ve seen a stadium shot that features no fans, but a row of stationary fans, dogs, and mascots. Fan cutouts have becomes the hot trend of pandemic sports as a way to get “faces” in the crowd.
The Syracuse Orange have not offered any cutout action for fans this football or basketball season, and they’re not alone in that decision. However, they are the only ACC school to not have any kind of “fans” in the stands this year, although that may be changing once students return to campus.