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[QUOTE="syracuse95, post: 2712292, member: 860"]
I can't say that I blame them.  The 50k alumni that graduated over the last 15+ years never saw a team worth returning for.  We've been consistently bad and occasionally mediocre over that time.  Our high water mark over the last 17 years was a 7-5 regular season, with a lot of 4-8 and 3-9.  From 2003-2017 we were 57-101.  That hurts the ties that out of town alumni have to the program.  Not to mention that for a decade+ our TV coverage was on the Ocho, so most of those alums never even accidentally caught a game on TV.  And if they did catch one of our few nationally televised games, we were getting blown out in the 2nd quarter.

It's going to take more than a 4-1 record this year to get out-of-towners back to the dome.  Those apathetic students that didn't show up from 2003-2013 are lost forever.  If I had graduated in 2015, instead of 20 years earlier, I doubt I make the trip every year like I do now.  I wasn't a Syracuse fan when I arrived on the Hill, but the gameday environment and winning football turned me into one.  What, over the last 15 years, would have turned a new student into an SU football fan?

The only reason I kept making the trip to games over the last 15 years was because of a fading memory of what it was like 25 years ago, and a belief that somehow it would be that way again.  That's a tough sell to a kid that wasn't born when I graduated from college.  It was a tough sell to myself before we hired Babers.

We need to keep Babers, keep winning, and keep growing the engagement of the student body in the football program.  Do that for 5-7 years and there will be plenty of fans, local and out-of-town, in the dome every game.
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