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[QUOTE="Chip, post: 948519, member: 19"]
That's true, as is your last point.  But they also go together.  It's a lot easier to skip a game when you're watching a 6-7 win program who competes at the mid level but not the high level (I'm going to full skip the low level, those days appear safely buried).

To consistently see 45k in that building with the near sellout pop of the big name, it needs to be the 1991 to 1998 formula.

Winning team who is in, or just outside of the Top 25.
Star power on offense.  Names like Ismail, Graves, Gedney, McNabb, Harrison, Johnson, they made enough people pick the Dome over any other fall event.  You don't need all of them, just 45-50k of them.
Play interesting opponents (that new Big East really dragged this down).  ACC should help build it back up.

All the rest of the stuff (marketing, parking, NYC, economy), I just don't think they are factors.  Maybe they're factors now combined with how long we've failed to get the 3 items above working together.  But get those top 3 above, and the others aren't going to be barriers.

The million $ question is whether or not we can get back there without a full Dome to help sell the program to recruits.  But the fans rallied for Clemson, should show up for FSU.  Just need one of those big crowds to be rewarded with a win.

Hoops being the ongoing phenomenon that it is doesn't do the football crowd any favors.  But it does do the football program favors (helps pay the bills, shows very nicely on recruiting weekends).
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