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Message: [QUOTE="FfldCntyFan, post: 4719919, member: 71"] What's sad about this comment is that if anyone with a little competence replaced fat Lew (instead of Hathaway) your 50k number would be well in the rear view mirror. Anyone who was at the Rent when it opened (against Indiana) would have known what the crowd was that day. Considering what we had & where we were prior to the Rent opening, a crowd like that one was unimaginable. Hathaway was freshly (I believe less than a month) on the job the day we opened the Rent. An achiever, someone who demands excellence from his work product, someone who wants the best for what he is and what he does would have left the stadium that day saying "My God, if we can do this today, in fifteen years we can consistently pack a 50k stadium. In thirty years we can pack 75k-80k seats. Unfortunately he saw the packed house and said to himself "My work's done here". Sadly, we may have let the window pass us by. The opportunities could have been there but we were rudderless on many levels of management while the window was open. Now we'll need to force a window open and this will a tremendous amount of work, an unbelievable amount of persistence and enough luck that we won't be faced with some unexpected setback as it won't take a lot to derail the effort. One thing I can't understand (which has permeated this thread) is the notion that different sports, different aspects of the school, are not connected. It's kind of like saying the right leg is exceptionally strong so who cares about the left arm. If it gets mangled and they have to cut if off, no problem. [/QUOTE]

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