I'm not dissing on 1,300 for the game, but I was a long way from missing anything last Friday. Soccer attendance isn't something most college sports fans take too seriously.
The point of pride you make is a point of shame and embarrassment to most. A shiny (unfinished) soccer stadium at the expense of a football team, more prestigious conference affiliation, dwindling fanbase, and lessened national, regional, and local presence.
I'll give you that building on campus facilities (including soccer) is critical for ETSU, but to approach it in such a reverse order is unacceptable. A football stadium should come first, but the lack of a team to play in it should then make a modern basketball facility a priority. The order of other facilities that come after that can be debated, but basketball should clearly come first.
You energize the alumni, fan, and community base by building a quality facility for the only flagship (and visible) sport, winning in it, and then you can trickle down the successes to the olympic sports. What you don't do is kill one and bleed your only other visible sport to near death to build up the olympics. It's how every other successful D-I school gets it done.