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[QUOTE="Upstate, post: 27151, member: 48"]
Maybe the Endzone Seats should be free. No one seems to ever want to be there.

I think the University and the city are pretty distant.  I mean you have a great school, obviously housing the children of mostly white-collar americans, plucked in the middle of a pretty depressed/blue-collar city.  Had Syracuse been an Ag, public school of the same size, I think the interest would be greater, because there would be more connection between locals and the University.  It's more difficult to really feel a connection to a school when you're in upstate NY, where the large majority of families couldn't send their kids to SU, and there is a disconnect based on the small # of alumni in the area.

Theres nothing to really do about that now, and I understand there are now programs that can get students from OCC and ESF into SU programs, and maybe that will help down the line to garner more interest and make more of a connection with the school and the community.  When you think about it, they really are on two different pages, as far as the makeup of the SU community and the City of Syracuse community.
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