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[QUOTE="AcAndAc, post: 5348487, member: 10310"]
No, they will not.  Look at football attendance:

1986: 34.5K per game
1987 (11-0-1 season): 44.5 k per game.
1988 to 2000: Lowest was 43k, some years as high as 48k AVERAGE.
1999 (post-McNabb): 46.7K
2000: 43k
2001-2004: stiil above 40k each year
2005 (GERG 1): 40k
2006: (GERG 2): 41k
2007: (GERG 3/apathy starts): 35k
2008: (GERG 4/fan punishment stage): 33k
2009: (Marrone 1/enthusiasm): 39k--still below the worst Coach P years
2010 & 2011: 40k
2012: 46k (still a few thousand below the McNabb/Graves years)
2013: Shafer 1: 38k
2014: Shafer 2: 32k
2015: Shafer 3: 33k (almost 10,000 below the Coach P years and BELOW 1986)
2016: Babers 1: 33k (same as 2015)
My data ends there and I do not feel like looking.  
OK two more:
2018: Averaged 42k
2024: Averaged 39k.

So, McNabb era we averaged 46k... Marrone's 8 win season in 2012 brought 46k in... Dino's 10 win season brought 42k in... and Fran's 10 win season brought 39k in.  We would not have put seats in the Dome if we thought we could EVER put 48,000 to 50,000 back in the Dome on average for a season.  Those days are over and the admin knows it.

I posit that we never fully recovered from the mistake of giving GERG a 4th year.  Instead of fixing apathy as it was starting during year 3, the admin cemented it by cheaply giving him year 4.  While Marrone brought us some the way back with a 46k season, Shafer destroyed that reather quickly. We went from a program where .500 seasons were bad... to one where .500 seasons would now be the good ones.  It wasn't "get a life" that took attendance down.  It was realizing that our bar had been lowered without the admin caring at all.

Fran's 10 win season is a needed injection of hope.  But unless we can string some of those seasons together... I think sellouts will be pretty rare.  Even with lower capacity.
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