First off, I like your numbers. You aren't giving me (us) platitudes and feelings. But second, again, you've missed my point. We were a 3 win team last year and we had 93% attendance?!?! I'd say that's damm good!
But on your other point, you might be right. We've been conditioned to see such bad crowds because looking at Doba's last year (Yes, I'm completely avoiding the previous regimes years because, well, because regardless of whether or not there's a legitimate point, the thread will get hijacked
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2007, the only thing that saves Doba, regarding sheer numbers was the Clink game. Without it, attendance JUST at Martin (5 games) was 164K. With CLink almost 200K.
-In 2006, total attendance was 201.4K, all games in Martin. In 2005, Martin attendance (5 games) was 155K, with Clink was 207,033.
His attendance, was pretty mediocre his last several years, but seemingly equal to what CML is getting now. So maybe your right in one facet but either way, I see attendance being VERY similar, yet last year we had 3 wins…
Either way, attendance is up over the past decade, and that's exciting, regardless of the "why it's happening" factor. Either way, I like CML's brand of football and maybe that's where I'm projecting numbers into my own belief. Meh. Either way, WSU is doing well. So from 2004 and on, our attendance had dropped.
Now it's going up. Hard to not be excited when attendance is up from a decade of "blah".