re: Declining Student Attendance Hits Georgia (Wall Street Journal)

To be fair, the article had a lot of discrepancies. For starters we do not have 18,000 student seats reserved. That is simply wrong. It's closer to 16,000, so I'm wary of trusting anything the writer says if they can't get something that simple correct. Second, the photo they used for the story is a cropped photo of our overflow student section. The crowd was pretty good for a rainy day against a rent-a-win. Third, I never got the impression that she conducted some extensive survey to discover that a lot of students don't go to games because of cell-phone service. As far as the article tells us she asked one student. I'm not trying to say that attendance isn't down, and that we don't need to seek some sort of solution; but I would suggest that the problem is not as bad as some of you would like to think.