It definitely hasn't grown as much as I'd like it to have for a few reasons:

-USM's hire of Elloss Johnson (leading to 0-12 and 99% of our roster transferring out)
-Donnie Tyndall fiasco
-The mass exodus if every conference opponent that our fans gave a damn about (ECU, Tulane, Memphis, Houston, UCF, SMU...)
-Enrollment went down from 20k-ish to about 13k-ish

All of these things absolutely crushed any momentum our fan base may have had going into the spring of 2012...it's taken a lot of patience and time but we're slowly getting back to the fan excitement we used to have. Football has officially recovered. While attendance #'s are down, tix revenue is up (due to no more freebies that the previous admins were doing). We all know Doc Sadler inherited a mess and rode that storm with us and got the bball program back to being semi/quasi respectable. However, fans still don't care about our conference opponents. Most USM fans probably couldn't even name all our conference opponents. The only opponents they care (or know) about are Marshall & UAB. But times have changed. Another good thing is enrollment is going back up. We're around 15K now so that's good. Winning cures all and we've slowly but surely gotten back to winning more. We just need to win more championships and everything will fall into place. TTT...