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[QUOTE="OttoMets, post: 360101, member: 716"]
I think that basketball is a good counterexample, but this assessment isn't quite accurate.
 
Our basketball team does win, and does tend to draw well. Like football, though, that isn't enough. There exists a core of diehards and many thousands of people who come out for Big Event Games but no-show in droves throughout the first three months of the year.
 
We've spent three years playing some of the best basketball of Boeheim's tenure and we've seen increasingly many December games with fewer than 10,000 in actual attendance (you've even noted this in your 'My Take' recaps).
 
I agree that several years of winning football will produce a bump over what we're seeing now. I also think that a .600 winning percentage in the next five or so years would still result in sub-35,000 crowds for the D-IAAs and sub-40,000 for non-name opponents (including half the ACC).
 
I'm not passing any sort of value judgment on Central New York fans, nor am I comparing them to fans elsewhere. But I think basketball is a great example of what the population as a whole thinks of a winning team.
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