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My gut feel is that we need about 5 solid years of high level success in basketball (including maybe 3 NCAA appearances) to solidify the support that you already see this year. That kind of sustained success will enable us to not lose too much of the support if we have a down year or two. Always have fair weather fans of course, but at least then we will be at a point that we can half fill the arena even in bad years without requiring rich alumni to buy a bunch of tickets and give them away.

Year 1 is complete, regardless of the outcome in New York. 4 more years...

Everyone on here who talks about losing 1-2 generations of fans is right. Sad, but true. That's why we need several years to really create some longer-term fans since we're starting with almost zero (minus the people on this board and other committed alumni).

smu2004 wrote:We started fast in our last 3 games before the nit and lost all 3...it's not a trend, but all within the realm of stastical variance.

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Don't get too excited about a 3 game "trend"

it's more than a 3 game trend. Sure there have been games where we have started fast but most of the games SMU starts slow in the first half. I think the reason is simply we have a lot of good player and no real great players. As a result a huge amount of our edge comes from rolling 10 deep and being able to wear down opposing players through the course of the game.