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[QUOTE="anomander, post: 949653, member: 2766"]
I agree with a lot of this, and I think the attendance problem is just the face of the issue.  I am actually shocked at just how little the whole community knows about the football program.  The general knowledge, or lack thereof is pretty alarming.  We will always have those core 25k that will show up no matter what, but I think the biggest obstacle is just getting people interested in the program again.  I would say there is a good amount of casual fans, who will turn the game on Saturday if they can find it, and watch not really caring if we win or lose.  It's not like basketball where you can go any place in the city and that's all people want to talk about.  I learned this first hand at my job.  I was in sales and would travel all around the county.  Every account I went into all people could talk about was the hoops program, then i'd try and talk about the football program and people would look at me like i was talking about the Syracuse Chiefs.  The most common statement i'd get is they suck (i have no teeth left from gritting them), and that's after 3 bowl wins.  It furthers the point that not only do we need to win, but we need to win big, and if we can do it with an exciting offense, that will only help.  Either way we look at it we have a long road ahead, even in our hometown, from a perception standpoint alone.
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