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[QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 360029, member: 27"]
My position is that we have great fans for basketball and they would be great fans for football too, if not for how awful the program has bad for such an extended period.
 
Syracuse gets 22 or 23K for basketball each season despite playing regularly games in awful weather, often on weekday nights. It is something no one in South Carolina ever has to contend with. I don't think the fanbase for any major basketball program in the country has to deal with this. We have had 28K show up for a weekday evening game in the middle of a blizzard. No other fanbase does this.
 
We also travel to away venues for basketball extremely well. We are surely one of the top ten programs in the country doing this.
 
Why are we great supporting basketball and bad supporting football? Is it because people in CNY love basketball that much more than football? I have lived here my whole life, I am surrounded by the fanbase every day and I just don't buy that.
 
When given a quality product to watch (that means a consistent top 25 caliber team), the fans will come. As discussed in this thread, we have averaged over 48K before when in that position before. I believe we will again if we can ever get consistently good at football again.
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