(11-30-2014 08:32 PM)texowl2 Wrote:  The team with Ennis as a fresh and arsalan as a jr was a decent to above average team. Having missed only 1-2 games that year, I believe that there were a bunch of factors contributing to the mass exodus. I do believe that attendance, though minor compared to the whole Marcos/RG issues, was one. There was a major Saturday non-tv game towards the end of the season that was scheduled at 2pm (a Braun idiocy that hurt student/local fans attendance) and I will never forget the look on the team's faces when they came out right before the tip. There might have been 300 fans and15 students. As they did the layup drill, they looked around in disbelief. I am sure all of you will be shocked to hear, as I recall, there was no marketing whatsoever.

Ibrahim's handler was banging the attendance woe as early as the Padre Tourney when he saw how many fans Northern Iowa and Iowa State brought on TG weekend. It just went downhill from there.