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[QUOTE="Crusty, post: 863358, member: 2265"]
We probably need one more winning season before we can expect any kind of attendance growth. When the average casual fan has the opinion that we are "pretty good", are on the rise and [B]are fun to watch[/B], we have a chance to get some attendance momentum.

Marrone's 25-25 record might have been spectacular to the hard core fans but after GRob's 10-37, it is easy to see why we have not had much traction yet. Let's face it 35 - 62 over eight years is no the stuff of which sellouts are made. We're 15-11 for the last two years and an 9-4 season would probably do wonders next year - perhaps no so much as for 2014 but subsequent seasons.
Defense does not sell except to hardcore fans. Over the last 7 seasons we have averaged 22.1 points per game. We are, in a word, boring to the average fan. In a world when the NFL is setting records year after year for points scored, we are not very exciting. Have we had our exciting games in the past few years?  Sure, but very few and even fewer high scoring ones.
[CENTER]Season   Avg. PPG[/CENTER]
[LEFT]2007   16.4
2008   18.1
2009   21.2
2010   22.2
2011   24.2
2012   30.0
2013   22.7

We need exciting playmakers that can produce exciting plays like Estime's punt return, ACE's 50 yard diving TD catch, Hunt's TD scrambles and designed runs. We are finally getting a few of these players and there is great promise that we can produce exciting offenses in the next few years.

Marketing always helps but in the final analysis it is the product that counts.

As one famous alum was fond of saying, "Win baby, just win!"[/LEFT]
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