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[QUOTE="Scooch, post: 5167202, member: 628"]
About the "people have kids and can't make the games" thing... This is where the size of the CNY population and near-by alumni base really harms us.

It's not like people in South Carolina or Florida or Iowa don't have kids who play soccer on Saturdays.  But the size of the fan base that might buy tickets is much larger than SU's.  So for every parent who can't make a game, there's another (if not 2 others) who can.

If SU was, say, 3 hours from NYC and Boston, instead of 5, then we'd get a lot more alumni attendance.  Because 3 hours is about the outer edge of drive time that most people will do in the same day.  I'd have never given up my seasons if I could leave at 8am for a noon game and be home by 7pm that same day.  5 hours requires an overnight stay, and that's too much for a lot of folks with kids, jobs, etc.

Bottom line: the biggest factors that impact SU football attendance is (1) team performance, and (2) small-ish size of the fan base.
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