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Message: [QUOTE="Cusefan95, post: 5348532, member: 173"] Back in the early 2000s, I used to take my nieces and nephews to Syracuse games (1 game per kid) - that was something they would look forward to for MONTHS, talking about the game they would go to with me. Syracuse didn't win every game, but the team was consistently good and the crowd was always electric. Last year I had to negotiate with my kids (8 & 10) to go to the NC State game; even then they game was a thing they had to do with dad in order to get to do the stuff they'd actually enjoy. It wasn't quite a chore to be completed - but it was close. I didn't bother getting tickets this year. If Syracuse had a sustained run of 2-3 good years that were at least Sweet Sixteen season - I could easily get my nieces and nephews to go to a game again. There is basically no chance my kids will ever be Syracuse basketball fans - other teams have filled that void. They might watch a game on TV once in while...that's about the max. That sums up the issue - the longer Syracuse goes without making an NCAA tournament, the longer a sustained run of success needs to be to win back the fans that they can. Right now I think that's probably around 2-3 solidly winning seasons. And even at that - there's a growing generation of kids that have never seen a good Syracuse basketball team who are probably never going to be anything more than "watch on TV once in a while" fans. Syracuse convinced themselves football fans would come back when the teams started winning again. Now they were so convinced that 16% are gone forever that installing seats in the Dome made sense because it was just eliminating benches that would always be empty anyway. This is going to go the same way, the university is going to be convinced fans will always come back and be shocked and totally unprepared when they don't. At least with football you can forgive them a little, they didn't know better. But after what happened with football, watching the same mentality being employed with basketball is unforgivable. [/QUOTE]

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