I don’t like the weather excuse either. Doesn’t hurt Pen St, Ohio st, Wisconsin, Mich st, Michigan , even Minnesota! And, we have a dome. So ya, weather is not an excuse in recruiting. So what is it?
Well, I’m going to ruffle some feathers here….
Syracuse doesn’t invest in getting younger people interested into Syracuse football.
This was the first season we saw a push for the students to attend football games in a long time so that’s a huge start.
We have 0 traditions, absolutely nothing that sets us apart on game day. In game production is awful and isn’t drawing fans.
When the defense is on the field during first and second down it’s pretty quiet in the dome. Think about some of the away games you’ve gone to. The crowd is engaged the entire time, especially on defense. With the “good” football programs I’ve gone to at away games the entire stadium is standing the entire time. They are there for the game and not some social event.
We also have a lot of people who are very complacent with where the program is and just chalks things up to “well were Syracuse.”
This $150 million sports project is a huge plus however, we had a shot at going ALL OUT on the dome and backed off and went as minimal as possible. Don’t get me wrong the dome is absolutely beautiful now, but they left a lot of things out that could have really done it wonders. Glad that they ended up doing the uplifting on the outside of the building…that helped.
Personally I would have taken the whole west side of the dome and make it glass.
Syracuse is dipping their toes into being serious about football and I truly hope they dive all the way in…..there’s a lot of money there that Syracuse could make but like anything….you have to spend money to make money