25,000 fans attending a Tulane game will not cut it. Yes, 35,000-40,000 is more like it. If you when Tulane was an independent back in the 70's and early 80's tulane was drawing in the range of 35,000. Why every year we had home and home contracts with Ole Miss, Miss. State, Georgia Tech, LSU, Vanderbilt, with limited contracts 1&1 with the likes of Florida State, Clemson, Alabama, Georgia, etc..
And guess what folk, our winning records weren't any better than it is today, just think what the attendance would have been if we would have had winning records each year. Example: 1979, TUlane goes 9-3, with a trip to the Liberty Bowl against Penn State, TUlane led the nation with the largest increase in attendance in Division 1-A with an average home attendance of 44,000. Yes and the that year, a week before the LSU game, against Ole Miss, on a bitter cold, wet Satutday AFTERNOON, 52,000 fans packed the dome.
One more issue, upgrading your schedule certainly helps recruiting the type of athletes needed to have a winning, sucessful program.
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