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Message: [QUOTE="OttoinGrotto, post: 8186, member: 297"] I don't know. I'm not a fan of people leaving early in big chunks. Or at all really. Can't say I've ever done it myself. That said, if you paid for a seat, I suppose it's your right to occupy it for as much or as little of the game as you choose. They don't pay any less for the ticket if they leave early. In a perfect world, yeah, fans would support their team through thick and thin 100%. But I think it's kind of pointless pretending that how things should be in theory on this is in anyway predictive of what will happen or actually does happen. The bottom line is that the good people of Syracuse have endured a lot of crappy football and they're just not as enthusiastic about it anymore. And no, winning [I]isn't[/I] enough. If all people wanted to watch was a football game where they knew they would see victory they could sit back and tailgate in their driveway and then go inside and watch their kids play as Syracuse on the XBox. They want excitement and energy and to see guys doing awesome things that they can't do themselves against big bad teams in[I] addition[/I] to winning, and they don't want to sit through three quarters of crap to get to it. I know this won't be a popular thing to say, but the program, the players, and the coaching staff are not entitled to having fans, not when fans have to make a choice and a time commitment and a financial sacrifice to support them. Those fans have to be earned, and the bottom line is that a large number of fans felt that the team didn't earn their support beyond three quarters. It makes no difference whether it's true that they deserved to have them there for the whole game, or that those fans should have been "better" fans. What matters is that those fans were put in a position to make a choice like that, and the evidence was compelling enough to them to go that they didn't stick it out. If I were a casual fan I'd tell the team to look prepared to play right from the start so I don't even think about not sticking around. [/QUOTE]

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