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Message: [QUOTE="Scooch, post: 2310318, member: 628"] SU is a small school by P5 standards and has a 50K seat stadium. There is no way that alums - the vast majority of which move hundreds of miles away after graduation - are ever going to be a majority presence in terms of attendance. And certainly not given the current state of the program. It's not reasonable to expect tons of alums to travel 300+ miles every Saturday to see a team that hasn't been ranked in [I]16 years[/I]. It's notable that alums turn out pretty darn well when SU plays in their home region (Boston, Raleigh, Atlanta, etc). So there is interest, just not enough sustained program performance to motivate people to travel that far. Look, I'll gladly rip alums and students if they're not showing up when SU is reeling off 9+ win seasons again. But to expect massive turnout when the high-water mark of this program in SIXTEEN years is winning 3rd tier bowls around Christmas is just not realistic. [/QUOTE]