Quote Originally Posted by Political Hack View Post
That sort of still proves the point that wins isn't the major driving factor season to season. with an average of +2 wins it would seem that the factors you mentioned and the recruiting classes are what put butts in seats... the +2 wins surely didn't. In short, I think it's somewhere in the middle. "Expectations" sell tickets though. Not wins. Wins will just keep them coming.
Of course it's expectations, but under the logic you seem to be using, wins can't ever drive attendance unless there was no lag at all between when the wins began and when the attendance rose. So you would have to know in advance your team was going to win and have that be the reason in order for you to agree that wins drove attendance.

If a rise in attendance correlates to a period of time shortly after an uptick in winning, that would seem to support the idea that wins increase attendance. The fans feel good about wins coming their way based on past wins, not current ones.