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(01-10-2018 04:45 PM)Monarchblue Wrote:  

(01-10-2018 04:32 PM)LuckyLion Wrote:  

(01-10-2018 10:11 AM)ODUBB35 Wrote:  

(01-10-2018 09:56 AM)odu09 Wrote:  I think a lot of people are associating the collapse of our men's basketball program with the conference realignment. However it seems this collapse would've happened no matter who are opponents are or how far away they are. The way the program was left, it was always going to take a lot of time and work to bring it back up. Being in CUSA is not the reason why our attendance or performance took a hit.

^ This.

Winning puts butts in the seats, regardless of the conference.

And sports viewership and attendance is taking a hit across the board. Young people just aren't as interested in spending that amount of time on going to games.

Blah blah blah excuse excuse excuse. There are tons of schools ODU's size that draw a lot more students than ODU, have much more energized crowds than ODU, etc. This has not always been the case. Lots of convenient excuses being floated by our admin and eaten up by some of you. They are doing a bad job. If you hear what some off the folks in the AD say off the record, even they agree that whats happening in The Ted is unacceptable.

If we averaged our capacity last year (if we sold out every game) we would have been ranked 50th in attendance. Last year we were 81st. Attendance isn't the issue, the issue is getting the atmosphere back to what it was. Usually winning helps but damn there are some low energy games that just make me sad. There was one game JJ rightfully called out the fans on it. We need to find a way to bring the energy back and I'm not sure what the answer is. I feel like it starts with the students.