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[QUOTE="IthacaMatt, post: 4113385, member: 405"]
But it's ok to hire Gerry McNamara.

You know, the university is going to lose a LOT of money if they let the basketball team go completely off the rails with a guy who has never been a head coach before.

We have averaged more than 40,000 for football most of the time since we opened the Dome.  Our peak years were 1987 to 2006, averaging more than 40,000 per game every single year in that stretch.  All the way to 2006!  I'll bet many would be surprised to hear that.

It wasn't until Robinson's 3rd year that the attendance began to tank. 35K and then 33K in Robinson's last 2 seasons.  Marrone's first year, we didn't quite average 40K, but were close, just beat 40K in years 2 and 3.  We averaged 45K in his last year and then he left.

Shafer was a disaster. Attendance averaged 36K in his 3 years.

Dino has also done poorly at the gate.  We've been down around 32K in attendance. How many years of that can a program take before people just stop coming?  Aren't they paying attention?

Their game day improvements have been marginal, to be honest.  You have to be willilng to spend money before it's too late to get your customers back.
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