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[QUOTE="DomeHolmes, post: 5166917, member: 10113"]
Could not agree with this more. Look around at people on their phones that don’t even know what the score is.   The only time they come to life is (as you said) to chant “Let’s go orange” when we have the ball, or make noise because the Jumbotron told them to.    Eric15 alluded to this as well. I would rather have 35,000 football fans who are into the game itself than 42,000 with “casuals” who need entertainment other than the football game.   I don’t go to concerts and then want to toss a football around between songs because I’m bored.

Our attendance challenges are not unique.  My kids went to middling SEC and Big Ten schools and my wife went to a big east school .   And one thing they all have in common, whether it’s basketball or football, they all want to go to games when their teams are good and when they’re not, they’re not too interested.

As recently as 10 years ago, there would always be a few games you could not get on TV. That drove sales.  Those would be the games I was most likely to go to .  Now you get them all.  To consistently sell out we need people coming from NYC, Connecticut, Boston, New Jersey, etc.  they will come if we win.
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