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Message: [QUOTE="CuseMan4, post: 4770833, member: 5564"] It’ll probably be in the low 40s. No reason this game isn’t sold out. Also of this blame is on Dino and the marketing department. For whatever reason our program thinks they can make a hype video early in the week and expect that to drive attendance. Quite honestly embarrassing. Marketing for football games is an ALL YEAR task and strategy that we didn’t do right now. Honestly, we have the Buffalo Bills a couple hours down the thruway who were garbage for 20+ years until 2017 and they have always had one of the most rabid fan bases and currently do. You can’t tell me we can’t produce a fan base similar to Buffalo. The problem is Dino doesn’t allow media to get long looks at the team during the off season and preseason. The marketing department doesn’t do much of anything during the off-season. Tbh there’s a lot of east things they can do that they just don’t for whatever reason. 1) they need to market a lot harder in the Buffalo, Rochester, Binghamton, Syracuse and Albany areas. Those are your closest population centers where people will drive to see games. Every Bills home game there are bunches of people that make the drive for those games 2) they need to make the spring game AN EVENT. Think back to the orange madnesses for basketball. Those were well attended from 2009-2017(ish). It’s because the university made them an EVENT. That drives people to the spring game and gets eyes and hype for the team 3) they need to bring back fanfest in the preseason. Gives the fans a chance to meet the players, see the team again and gives young kids a chance to be Cuse fans from a young age. Builds excitement. Idk why they stopped doing this but it could be a HUGE plus for the team. 4) Dino needs to allow more access in the preseason. Absolute crime he doesn’t. You look around lost teams in the P5 and they have media at practice almost every day for a good chunk of the practice. 5) Dino needs To make his players and coaches more available. It’s easier to root for someone when you see them interviewed more and it’s almost like you get a personal connection with them because their personalities, etc…are more seen. 6) what they did a couple years ago was great in the off-season. They had their own mini hard knock style videos come out for a month or so during the off-season. Just 15-20 minute videos of behind the scenes stuff. Fans eat that up, and it builds hype and allows people to see the players and coaches more. ALOT of P5 teams do this and we don’t for whatever reason. 7) continue with the hype videos during the season. They are well done and it does build hype but the fact it’s one of probably the only things they do well is telling and attendance is a direct correlation to bad marketing Our fa base is there. We sold out, what 3 games last year? It’s was there in the 80’s, 90’s and early 2000’s. It didn’t just go away but you have to give the fan base something to root for and make them excited. This team is fun to watch, and it’s a shame this game won’t sell out because if we win this game I think a 9-10 win season is VERY MUCH on the table [/QUOTE]

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