This drives me crazy! I get that actual numbers are reported because of the TSA agreement, but no one else reports actual numbers. It's not an accurate comparison. National media picks it up and it makes the attendance numbers look worse than they really are. I'm not naive. We have a lot of work to do as a fan base, but the freakin university is only 60 years old and the football program is 20 years old. Put in to perspective, we've come along way in a short amount of time.
If USF somehow gets in to the Big 12, it will be in spite of the local media. Ironically, we get a stronger USF to the Big 12 argument from the paper in clown town.