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[QUOTE="HeaterCuse22, post: 4788630, member: 104"]
I think TrueBlue has made the most cogent points that align with my thoughts.

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[*]The university needs to better "market" the team and the team needs to just be better.
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Greater Syracuse (Onondaga County has 500k people). The fact is season ticket holder are the "fanatics" and seem to hover in the 20-25k range forever.  How many of those are alumni.  How many alumni exist in the pool of 500k people.   Other than that you are relying on locals with no connection to the university other than proximity to be the sole supporters of the team (even when they don't warrant the support sometimes) and the local who has no connection to college sports or football to fill the gaps.  Also as a person who was a fanatic local with no connection, I have seen my willingness to support SU and college football in general with all the transfer rules and NIL etc.  I realize that I am just one person but that's where I am at.  It has been a common refrain that free agency impacted pro sports fandom  and our new free agency model is and will ruin college sports fandom for the have nots (fball and bball mostly).  (luckily we still have the opportunity to be a have in bball).
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