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[QUOTE="Scooch, post: 1666573, member: 628"]
To the bolded... my guess is maybe for a year.  The affects of new stadiums/arenas on attendance have waned substantially over the past couple decades.  Remember in the 90s when you could open up a new ballpark and basically count on it being full for a few years, just because it was new?  Now those places are half-empty by the third week of the season unless the team is doing well.

I'm 1,000% for at least renovating the Dome.  I'm less passionate about the build-new debate because I'm not a local and the impact on me and my tax dollars is basically nil.  But I'm pretty confident that even if SU opened a shiny new place, with every imaginable bell and whistle, and super easy access and parking... it'd be less than capacity after the first season (at longest) if the team was going 6-6.

The world is a much different place than it used to be, in terms of entertainment.  Being in my living room is MUCH different than going to a stadium, no matter how new and awesome it might be.  I agree that SU needs to renovate/build to keep pace with the 21st century, but I don't think that in-and-of-itself is the solution to getting better attendance, and certainly not to attracting more/different students to SU.
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