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[QUOTE="Cusefan95, post: 765178, member: 173"]
...but the hoops games are an event because the team is good.

At some point we gotta recognize that you cannot consistently draw fans if you cannot win.  Talking about turning games into an "event" is pointless if the team isn't winning.

Don't get me wrong, creating a better game day atmosphere might drive up demand a tiny bit when the team is good and prevent the total attendance collapse we saw during the GRob years.  The time for us to create Syracuse football as an "event" was when the team was good - but for a variety of reasons that wasn't where SU/Jake/Buzz focused their efforts.  Then Gross came in and did try new things to make the game day atmosphere better - but he was trying it on a team that was 1-11.  That was as pointless as the second window at McDonalds.

The order is going to be:
1) Get good at football again (at least play in an ACC championship game)
2) Try to improve the game day atmosphere the following season
3) Hope the team stays good enough that your marketing efforts bear some fruit, and can sustain attendance in the lean years.

We haven't even started step 1 yet - so fans are going to be as fickle as they have historically been.  Deal with it rather than starting threads to proactively complain about it.
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