Yeah, losing seasons really don't affect attendance that much if you have a history of being good. We sold out the entire home season in 2008 for basketball (the year we were 16-19), and most of those games actually saw close to every seat full. It's the 5+ years of being consistently hopeless that really drive down attendance. As much as people trash our fan base, I would like to see what other schools with records like we have had over the last 20 years draw per game. We rarely go below 35,000, we consistently hit above 40,000 and even when we're bad we have often drawn 45,000+ for conference games. Provide our fan base with even a LITTLE bit of hope and decent weather/gametimes, and we show up (see the sellout vs. UNC in Lovie's first year). When it is all said and done, our fan base is actually pretty amazing for how bad we have been. Give us Iowa's record over the past 20 years, and we could put 70,000+ in the stands every single week, and Grange Grove would be nationally renowned as a tailgate destination. Period.