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Message: [QUOTE="Cuse12, post: 5138101, member: 6808"] You aren’t completely wrong. But, I’ll put it this way, we have a generation of fans lost to pathetic performance. Growing up in the area it was engrained into our youth to be a Cuse basketball fan in the 2008-14 era. It was pushed on us in a good way because the return on fandom investment was there. Not once growing up was cuse football ever mentioned in schools by teachers etc. while on the other hand my classmates and I viewed the bball team as full blown Hollywood celebrities. This is 100000% a show me area of the country, very blue collard. And I don’t think it’s complete laziness and that’s why people spend money at the amp, it’s the fact that they are getting a complete return on their fandom. They KNOW they’re going to a concert and will leave entertained. How many would show up to the amp if out of 6 concerts they attended yearly, the artist barely performed any hits and had horrible vocals for 4 of them. You think they would still go because it’s easy? My generation has a thought process of regardless of what happened in the off-season, that cuse football “sucks”. There are a ton of people in the area who have that engrained in their brains, and we know why. We have overall sucked for 95% of their lifetime. Win and they will come. Create a culture of winning that bleeds organically down into our youth and it becomes “the cool thing to do”. That’s just the type of fans we have, for better and for worse. I mean look at our beloved basketball school and its attendance in the latter part of JBs tenure…. Not great in comparison to the recent past. We don’t have a rabid southern fanbase where regardless they show up, we have to prove it and the dome will be packed if we are actual contenders and are proven contenders. That’s just my opinion! [/QUOTE]

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