Yes, and 20 years ago, we were counting ACTUAL TURNSTILE ATTENDANCE, not "tickets sold attendance", for the "everybody does it" crowd.
Beta Blake has been our AD for, what, eight years? And an Assistant AD for three years prior.
Yes. And I believe we broke our own record, set earlier that year against NIU. We had some real clunkers in 1986, which resulted in the first (of several) insulting Sports Illustrated covers.
I'm not sure if it was an "all-time" record, as I would imagine there were some low-attendance games...
Not everyone does it, nor do they need to do it.
And we didn't count unfilled seats in the 1980s, when we set a record for smallest crowd to see an AP #1 team in a home game.