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Message: [QUOTE="Chip, post: 252305, member: 19"] I'm kind of enjoying the who gets it who doesn't get back and forth. Both are flawed in my opinion. You can't really compare Marrone's closing of practice, cancelling recruiting presentations, etc. to the University's tailgating situation. Not even in a big picture view. They are completely different things, they are decisions made my completely different people. I'm sure Marrone and Gross do not like the fact that we're losing tailgating lots. That's the last thing they'd like to see. But the University is obviously about much more than the football team, they need to stay competitive with academic facilities, and those facilities are going to get priority of any space on campus. You guys could give me the names of 5,000 former season ticket holders who gave them up because of the parking situation and I would still maintain the following. You get a ranked SU team, with an exciting offense containing a couple star quality players, put them against Florida State in the Dome, and the place will get 48k easily. You take a mediocre SU team, with an average (at best) offense, put them against Maryland, and play in our new South Campus stadium that has parking for one and all right around the stadium, and it will be half full. My point being that parking, while inconvenient for anywhere from some to many, is not the problem. It also wouldn't be hard to look back at SU attendance trends and see that the one constant when we drew well wasn't just a good team, it was a good team with star quality on offense, dual threat QBs who you couldn't wait to watch. WRs who stretched the field. While I'm skeptical that our offense is really going to change at all, if it is in fact changing, I bet that was a big part of the conversation. You've recruited more athletic QBs, it's in your best interest to figure out how to start using them, and soon. End of the day, I think by now Gross gets it on attendance, I doubt he's going to spend too much capital right now on improving gameday for everyone. He put his effort into the ACC, and his hope that Marrone will turn the offense around by the time we get there. That, more than anything else, will have the material impact on our crowd size that they are looking for. [/QUOTE]

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