re: For the "people leave in blowouts, big deal" crowd

Where is your photo of the West during the 1st quarter? And, who cares? Everyone has attendance/retention problems these days.

Massive expansions of stadiums over the last 25 years make the crowds look smaller. Convenience and ease of TV (could never watch every SEC, or every other major conference, game on basic cable TV each week 15 years ago), exhorbitant lengths of games due to leagues refusing to run the clock after incompletions, too many commercials and inability of schools/government officials being able to handle an additional 20k vehicles after games has lead to all of this.