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[QUOTE="ForCuseSake, post: 2716097, member: 266"]
I agree that attendance lags after team success.  I would kill for our current attendance to be in the vicinity of that golden era (Dino probably would too).  What I did a poor job of saying, and maybe this is parsing attendance figures, is that even in years attendance hovered at full capacity we still had a a 5-7k drop off (or less than 40k) for crappy opponents:

1990 - Temple 38,925
1991 - Vanderbilt 35,541
1991 - East Carolina 37,767
1992 - All home games around 49k (hosted Texas, #21 Ohio State, Rutgers, Pitt, VaTech, & #1 Miami)
1993 - Ball State 45,090 - every other game (including Temple & Cincy) over 48k
1994 - Rutgers 44,925 - all other games over 47k
1995 - East Carolina 39,547
1995 - Eastern Michigan 38,902
1996 - Pitt 45,103 (Pitt was 4-7 that year. 2-4 heading into that game
1997 - NC State 42,742
1997 - Tulane 42,246
1998 - Rutgers 42,716
1999 - Central Michigan 45,563

Even as Frank Beamer built the Chokies national rep on cream puffs, Jake still scheduled behemoths.  It became a huge obstacle as the program declined but he knew it impacted attendance.
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