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Message: [QUOTE="Eavesdrop, post: 4021178, member: 11175"] Attendance is complicated. Florida State, my alma mater, is the only school with a stadium capacity of more than 75 thousand that has less than 1 million instate people within a 100 mile radius. The stadium was way overbuilt (to more than 83 thousand) in the midst of Bowden's top four finish run. FSU administrators soon learned that coaxing fans off golf courses, beaches and boats near their homes some four to eight hours away is much easier when winning ten to twelve games is the expectation. On top of that college football attendance has been declining nationally as more and more fans build mancaves with high definition theaters in their houses. Florida State response to this has been to begin gradually lowering capacity while adding more expensive luxury seating (clubs, suites, terraces, loges, etc.). But no matter what their leadership does, attendance isn't going to trend way up until the expectations of winning do. And the problem there is that Fisher fell asleep at the wheel and Taggart applied the gas as the program sped toward a ditch. They'll be fine long term. But they're in a full multiyear rebuild and have a lot more short term lumps to take. [/QUOTE]