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Expanding Your Stadium Won’t Lead to On-Field Success

For programs in transition, change is not something you can buy through a few thousand more seats.

Change is an eminent part of college football, despite traditions seemingly trying to keep things the way they are. Teams that have had a bad year or stretch of struggling face the most change usually, a common practice in a sport where more winning means more money and coaching dividends need to pay off fast.

Take the East Carolina University Pirates as an example of that want of change. After leading the Pirates to a 10-win season in 2013, former head coach Ruffin McNeill was unable to reverse the team's slide to a 5-7 record.