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re: Arizona and Arizona State football
Posted on 4/9/15 at 1:52 pm to Forkbeard3777
Posted on 4/9/15 at 1:52 pm to Forkbeard3777
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Fanbase
At ASU it's the fan base. The university has 80 thousand students but struggles to fill it's 72-thousand seat stadium for any game. Last year's game against Notre Dame did not sell out.
Recruits notice things like that.
It's gotten so bad that they are now in the process of reducing the size of the stadium to somewhere in the neighborhood of 55 K.
When you can't get fans to come to the game you aren't making money. When you aren't making money you aren't spending it to chase recruits or upgrade your facilities.
It's an endless cycle.
ASU will never be a powerhouse until it invests serious money into it's football program.
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Posted on 4/9/15 at 2:43 pm to asurob1
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At ASU it's the fan base.
Lots of Missouri HS kids go to ASU for undergrad.
I think there is a ton of private school kids there that couldn't get into their target and fall back on ASU and UA as a fun safety school. That may have an impact on student participation overall.
Posted on 4/9/15 at 2:52 pm to asurob1
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The university has 80 thousand students but struggles to fill it's 72-thousand seat stadium for any game. Last year's game against Notre Dame did not sell out.
no it doesnt.
you'd have to combine all of their campuses, online students, and graduate students to get over 80k.
the main campus has 50k.
Posted on 4/10/15 at 3:28 pm to asurob1
About half those students are at the three other satellite campuses or are online students. We just need to win plain and simple. When the stadium fills up, it rivals any other stadium's atmosphere (says Pete Carroll who has been to many historic stadiums). Maybe not with the reduction though... #!?# our renovation looked cool until the more recent renderings... Yawn. I think ASU will finally be making strides this upcoming year to stay in that 9-13 win category. Hope Graham becomes Frank Kush~
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