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Message: [QUOTE="Townie72, post: 2216367, member: 780"] Actually the average football crowd last year was less than 35,000. Not much of a difference in crowd sizes, I'd say. The argument being made --- in the face of evidence --- doesn't seem to hold much water. We can be #2 in attendance for basketball in the Dome in a building designed for football. But for football, the Dome is so lacking in amenities (concessions, seats, width of concourse) that crowds are held down because of them. (???) Football crowds are bigger, but not THAT much bigger. (35K average vs 25K vverage) With logic like that as the basis for the argument I can see the University being very reluctant to bet that any significant spending would yield the kind of results there would have to be to justify it. Now if someone wants to give them the money, that's different. [/QUOTE]