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While at the games last year I think I shook my head saying "pitiful" when looking at all the empty seats way too many times. My biggest fear for the coming year is the style of offense the team will be playing under Taggart.  Ground and pound will put fannies in seats only if you win.  If you have a team this is scoring 35 - 40 points a game, people will get excited.  Winning 10 - 6 is good but not great.  Losing 9 - 6 is, for me, just the worst.  Would much rather lose 42 - 38.  Not that I want to lose, but sitting through the crap we saw last year strains your fandom.  So Coach Tags really needs to make sure we win if he is going to play this style.

 

I put the number around 12 - 13K die-hards if we're taking a poll.  Count me among that number.

 

I agree.  Nothing would suck worse than losing and at the same time having every game be as ugly as the typical annual USF-UConn game.

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unfortunately the die was cast early   the effort to include the community and surrounding counties was weak   without usf competing against the big 3 we are not appealing and cant compete with th

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I beg to differ, though. Even with recent measures to make Bucs games more affordable, and assuming the on field product gets better, I still think USF games are a heck of a deal. They may be more of

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If we are talking a poll 12k die hards seems about right to me. We have 4 season tickets but it got harder and harder each game last year watching the crap we saw last year as well as the last 2 years of Skippy teams.

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I'm not sure why everyone thinks this offense is so boring. If tags is running the style of offense he wants to run with any amount of success, we'll be seeing quite a bit of action through the air as well as on the ground. In fact, that's the whole point, right? Establish some success in the running game enough to draw in the defense, and then throw the ball deep...

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I just want the first game to start. It seems like the longest summer ever. Yes, I'm part of the 14K who love yelling in the rain, sweating in the sun and have never come to a game wearing a bag over my head. Go Bulls!!!!

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I'd say we are just like Miami

 

Win? and there are fans everywhere and the stadium is packed

 

Lose? Empty stadium

 

We probably have a base of 16k die hards

 

saddest part about Miami, is that they've actually won NC's and still don't get the support they deserve.

I'd say the majority of their Alumni don't live in South Florida, or even in the state.

 

Maybe true, but I work with a lot of Miami fans (in West Palm), and they rarely go to games.  Even when UM moved from Miami to SunLife Stadium...less than an hour from West Palm...they didn't go.  Lots of Canes alums want them to do well, but aren't interested in going to games (some say the thug fans made it less fun years ago).

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It all goes back to 2007.  The best and worst thing to happen to the program.  JUST when we gained the casual fan, the casual fan was lost, and it's going to be twice as hard to get them back.

15k diehard will show up to the games, another 10k are waiting for a flicker of hope, and the rest are all bandwagoners.  Until a sustained 3-5 year run of legitimate success, the bandwagon will continue to fall back to their old Big 3 fandom, when the going gets tough.  (see: Rays fanbase for the blueprint)

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The Rays would kill for 15k die hards.

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The fan base needs to be about 50k to 60k a game for football. About 7 to 9K a game for hoops. Do that and USF will be in good shape. 

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The fan base needs to be about 50k to 60k a game for football. About 7 to 9K a game for hoops. Do that and USF will be in good shape. 

Win and that happens. Simple as that.

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The fan base needs to be about 50k to 60k a game for football. About 7 to 9K a game for hoops. Do that and USF will be in good shape. 

Win and that happens. Simple as that.

 

 

 

unfortunately winning at a lower level will not generate the fans one would expect

 

we are in florida 

 

home of um,uf,fsu and lots of football championships

 

 

we are not competing against the best so the level of excitement will never return to old levels

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