What's more important is GAME DAY EXPERIENCE. Can you really say you are having enough fun to justify spending $200 (Tickets, food & drink) for a family of four to go to a football game where the kids have fun sliding down the endzone hill a few time and...... well, nothing else. The same has been true for 14 years at the men's basketball games.
Tell me you would not rather skip 3 football games and take your family with the money saved to see Garth Brooks, Blake Shelton, Luke Bryan, Luke Combs, or whatever the big rock acts are today? If we had a team that was fun to watch, and they would do some kind of gameday activities for kids, and they would charge a FAIR PRICE FOR FOOD AND DRINK then the stands would have more people.
Look how many students don't bother to go to the games and it's their school's teams. If they don't care about supporting their teams, then why should we?
It's all about being able to pay a high school football coach $750K to lose more games than he wins, or to pay Bob Marlin $672,476 to be less than mediocre and have a team that plays undisciplined street ball.
HOW MANY USL/UL FOOTBALL COACHES SINCE 1970 HAVE HAD A CAREER WINNING RECORD? Let's give $750K a year to the only true national level coach we have at UL and see what people say. They would say we are crazy for paying a softball coach $750K. He's the only coach at UL that is winning games, getting to know his team's fans and supporters, and really cares about working toward a top 8 team and playing for a national title. (TONY CARED.... I SURE DO MISS HIM!)