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Message: [QUOTE="nzm136, post: 1987295, member: 2531"] I don't buy the public vs private argument. SU doesn't have a fan problem. Our revenue sport attendance is roughly equal to Clemson's, and our merch sales are in the mid to low 30's. ...and that's after 15 years of mediocre to bad football. Our issue is a donor problem. There aren't many nearby corporations who need to sponsor us, and we've had 3 AD's in 2 years. That's made it hard for the school to connect w/ althletic donors for a variety of reasons. If we fixed the donor issue to even 1/3rd of Clemson's level, we would have HUGE amounts of incremental money to dump into football to make it mediocre to good and we'd easily overshadow most public schools - even ones in power conferences. [/QUOTE]