Originally Posted by
revf
Consistently winning solves a lot of attendance woes. Right now our two best programs: Baseball and (hopefully Softball this year) should have good attendance. People buy in when there is excitement. These are programs that are really engaged in seriously competing for conference championships year in and year out. The Baseball fans will tell you it took several years to build what they are enjoying now.
Unlike our other programs Football, MBB, and WBB, whose coaches have talked about competing but have rarely if ever actually done so. Point being your actions speak louder than your words. Brook Stoehr has been here 7 years, and has yet to win a conference championship, conference tournament, or anything else. You really think people are showing up for average basketball even when they are giving tickets away for free?
We are not asking these coaches to win the SEC or even beat a Big-12 team. We are asking them to compete against C-USA schools.
Baseball and Softball have shown us that this is possible. It is time to expect more from our "big programs" which have far more funding than Baseball and Softball.
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