Where have several of the Cameron Crazies gone?

Maybe it really is the theory that college kids these days would rather watch their team play on their laptop screen while multi-tasking and studying than camping out in the freezing cold just to ensure a better seat. Whatever the real reasons are, the average attendance by students for Duke's men's basketball games — the famed Cameron Crazies — is down. It's not a new problem, necessarily, but it was brought to light yet again in a piece by the Duke Chronicle, which reported that approximately 650 undergrads have attended each home game this year — 150 fewer than during the 2008-09 season. In turn, the school — as it should — has turned the student absences into a nice opportunity for profit, selling roughly 300 general admission tickets per game in the 1,200 seat Section 17. They've been priced at $65 a pop. "It has nothing to do with the revenue — We just want it to be full," Director of Marketing and Relations Mike Forman told the Chronicle. "If th...