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Message: [QUOTE="MCuse44, post: 27575, member: 282"] Well I go to the games, but lets see if I can get banned today. To start, after reading your post, I would say your attitude is problem 1a. People that work or interact with students mostly come away with a bad taste in their mouths. The words spoiled, rude, out of touch with the real work...etc come up a lot. It may not be everyone but it sure seems to be a large percentage. Syracuse University is average in just about everything but newhouse. Its a brand name for people who didnt actually get into a good school. People in syracuse know this, they grow up wanting to go to cornell, not syracuse. In fact liking syracuse university as a kid is mostly considered uncool. It defies logic, I know. So building on that, what the university could do is build on the blue collar mentality of the area and instead of thinking they are better then everyone, embrace it. Its obviously not good enough to just be in town and expect people to pour in. The $100 dollar cheap type of season tickets would have been better 10 years ago when people actually went. So its going to be tough because they need to build the culture up again. And I think build it relating to the community. If that means a jay z block party concert before every game for ticket holders...i dont know, i dont have that answer. I personally think the fan base has eroded to the point where the price of season tickets does not matter anymore. You could drop it to $75 and not much more come. So if your going after people who arent going to go anyways and your talking $100+ for a football game vs some other type of cheaper entertainment, cuse football is going to lose that battle a lot. So $12 parking in skytop I think could be eliminated. Ive never seen that lot full except maybe 1 or two games. Penn State was one of them. People think its ridiculous but they cannot be making much more then $5-10k a game there. I think thats peanuts in the world of expanding your customer base. im out. [/QUOTE]

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