This gets back to the Universities connecting with their students and alumni at a very early stage. You have to develop a passion for the school once the kids step foot on campus. CU has done a horrible job of this, but it is changing. You can tell there's a difference in the attitude towards CU athletics. I don't know what CSU is doing to change things around. In any event, this transformation doesn't take place overnight. It's a long process - 10 years or longer. But once done, it feeds on itself and is easy to keep going. Look at places like Alabama, where their football team has been decidedly average the last 10 years or so. Their fan base is ingraned in Tide Football. LSU, until the last few years, was also pretty average. But they never had any problems filling their stadium, even when their team went 5-6. That CAN happen here, but it takes a commitment from the University to ingrane a sense of pride and commitment to the university after the students have left campus.