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[QUOTE="Cheriehoop, post: 1478220, member: 127"]
I know I'm going to get heat for this since it's systemic, definitely not within the university's control but much like baseball games - college football games are too long. Baseball has tried to do something about it, basketball has addressed speeding up the game, yet not college football. Working people,families, students etc have only so much discretionary free time on weekends. I leave for noon games at 10:15am and staying for the entire game and leaving immediately, I'm lucky if I get home at 4 to 4:30pm and I'm local. Compare the time investment with basketball games and some of the questions being asked comparing support, might be partially answered. You see an hour of action in a college football game yet have to be in your seats for 3 and a half hours to see it played. To see a college football game, you get 20 additional minutes of action, that takes an hour and a half more to complete.(2 hours for average basketball game vs 3 and a half hours averaged for football games) Way too much dead time in games because of TV etc for young kids to become engaged too.

Is it the only factor? Of course not, but talking to local families and the time investment needed for weekend football games is a definite deterrent. I bet SU is far from alone too.
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