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[QUOTE="HRE Otto IV, post: 4866445, member: 5685"]
I think a good amount of ex real fans have checked out and they won't even know if we get some big recruiting gets. They won't start paying attention again until the Ws come. Landing recruits will be great for those of us that are still paying attention. That will get us excited, but we are still here even without those gets. And the casual fans aren't paying attention until we are a Top 25 calibre team.

I don't think we are in a need to swing for the fences. Yes, to get the casual fans back we do. But should we be chasing them when our non casual fans are fragile? That seems like a big risk with little reward. The casuals will show up if we are churning out 9 W / Top 25 teams, but is that even achievable anymore? To consistently pull that off?

Colorado has been so bad that it was worth it to swing for the fences. There wasn't a risk of things getting worse. But that is not the case here. Things can get worse, so is the risk worth it? If we were putting out 7 to 8 W teams I think we get a good amount of our ex real fans back, but not the casuals. However if this is a complete disaster (strikeout), I think many of those ex real fans will turn into casuals, and some die hards will check out. You cannot expect people to stay loyal after nearly 30 years of crap.

IMO we just needed a course correction. We had a guy on 3rd and a single gets us a run (where the majority of the fanbase wants SU to be). If we had no one on base like Colorado, I get swinging for the fences. SU as a program has warning track power (limitations), why try for a HR when that isn't require to score a run?
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