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Message: [QUOTE="Van111, post: 648386, member: 1851"] [COLOR=#141414][FONT=Georgia]From your side of the coin, I do agree with some of your points as it is the athletic departments responsibility to solicit that support, but we aren't talking about having a choice for a snack cake versus what you get out of camaraderie at your school with your friends and fellow alumnus, are we? This has to be a joint effort by both the students and the school staff. My example is campus based, you can go to a UVA game, even if the team is at the bottom of the standings, and the kids come out for the game! Why, because they made an event out of it! Check this out...[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#141414][FONT=Georgia][IMG]http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/646418/ACC_Avg_Attendance_per_Student.jpg[/IMG][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#141414][FONT=Georgia]My projections is we would fall somewhere around the Maryland line, if not below that. I mentioned UVA for one reason, they are extreamly similar in size and scope to Syarcuse. Both are private Universities. (Happen to have the same colors, go figure!) Here is a link to the ACC Analysis. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#141414][FONT=Georgia][url]http://www.shakinthesouthland.com/2011/6/29/2243155/acc-football-attendance-analysis[/url][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#141414][FONT=Georgia]Syracuse attendance was down despite a good year. I blame this directly for having a terrible home schedule and playing in the meadowlands. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#141414][FONT=Georgia][url]http://accfootballnews.net/2012/12/13/syracuse-football-attendance-down-6-lowest-since-2008/[/url][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#141414][FONT=Georgia]What does it mean for attendance if we can match say a UVA team? How about an increase of 2-3K per game. I think that is very doable is the student body and the University start working together. That coupled with a much better home schedule with the ACC now, we could easily match the UVA average attendance of about 45K/game. Even better, scrap the every year big game at the meadowlands, I am not against playing there once in awhile but it ain't working folks, and we just might actually have an official sellout! Bottom line is we need the students to accomplish this, one way or the other.[/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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