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[QUOTE="Townie72, post: 2153165, member: 780"]
The Dome and "The Fan Experience" and the impact of it on crowd size and enthusiasm?

Why is it that the Dome is such bad experience for the football crowds, but we are either #1 or #2 in basketball attendance every year.

This is the same Dome. The same parking. The same rest rooms. The same concessions. The same locker rooms.

And the weather is worse during basketball season. Games are frequently on week nights. And it is a facility designed for football in which the basketball court was kind of jury-rigged into.

The answer of course is the quality of the product on the field.

If I were in charge at SU I wouldn't spend a single dollar on anything that doesn't directly impact the quality of the product on the field. To the extent that facilities directly affects that, I'd be OK with it.

Once everything related to the product was fully-funded, I'd then worry about amenities like seat backs. The basketball attendance proves that these things aren't needed to draw big crowds.
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