We lack school spirit.
Our fan base consists of fair weather fans as can be seen in this post. From students to alumni we simply do not beleive we belong. Students should attend, its built into their fees they should come out and cheer our team. Alumni should not act as if they came to the game to attend a funeral. If you want to sit in comfort and complain stay at home and watch on TV. Cheer your team establish tradition beleiving comes before doing. It is for lack of belief that we suck. And I do not beleive we are second rate and I will attend and cheer as a first rate college football team which we are.
We have been in games with nationally ranked teams and we are being outdone in cheering and excitement by crowds a fraction of ours. I understand games like Tulane make us all lose our faith. But we have got to get the believing right before this turns around building a stadium doesn't fix that.