(08-29-2016 10:30 AM)panama Wrote:  

(08-29-2016 10:00 AM)bullet Wrote:  

(08-29-2016 09:48 AM)Niner National Wrote:  

(08-29-2016 08:35 AM)panama Wrote:  

(08-29-2016 08:16 AM)Atlanta Wrote:  GSU checks off a lot of boxes when it comes to potential - except a couple of big ones. Currently GSU has poor student & fan support. And this likely related to GSU as having a very short FB tradition, so it will take time, especially with the high level of UGA & GT support in the area that has been playing FB for 100 yrs. The other big one relates to the first, it is relatively small level private donor support for FB. the leadership of GSU has set the table well for substantial potential growth but the fan/student support has to increase substantially & the donor base has to step up dramatically - both of these to be taken seriously as an up & coming program (winning wouldn't hurt either).

First if you're a G5 other than like 4 schools, congrats you have poor fan support.

Second, I take it from your username you live in Atlanta. If so I should not have to explain to you how this works.
If you win they show up and if not they don't. We were in the top 15 in FCS attendance our first two years. We lost the ensuing 3 years and attendance plummeted. This is the same whether you're us or GT or the Falcons.The Hawks did not start selling out two seasons ago until March.

Thirdly, donor support was a problem towards the end of Levick's tenure. It's not a problem today. They raised the $1M for the temporary building for the football weight room in like week. Our part of the investment in Turner Field is $200M. That doesn't sound like problems.

I will take where we are in year 7 over anyone's upside. We will be more than fine.

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I've ragged on Georgia State in the past, but I agree. Purchasing the Turner property is a huge step forward for Georgia State, and not just for athletics.

Athletically probably their only chance to become much more than an Eastern Michigan. Besides being in a pro sports town, there are only an hour and 15 minutes away from UGA and are virtually next door to Georgia Tech.

Well that was dumb. Did Eastern Michigan go to a bowl and the NCAAs last year? Does EMU have a $300M stadium plan? Are they in a city of 6M? Get real. And pick a team.

GSU's attendance last year 10,347. Only schools worse were Ball St. and Eastern Michigan. 4 year average attendance is 13,310. Only schools worse are Idaho, who is dropping down, Ball St. and Eastern Michigan. And a couple of years ago, Georgia St. had easily the worst team in FBS and was worse than the vast majority of scholarship FCS teams.

The $300 million is a campus expansion plan, not a "stadium" plan.

Eastern is just outside a metro of 4 million. So the comparison is apt. I won't call your response dumb. But its pretty extreme homerism.