The long term success or failure of any given program in college football has no more to do with what happens on the field than a wrestler ' s success in the WWE has to do with what happens in the ring . In the big picture it ' s just plain rigged . <| sep |> With regard to the alltime average attendance for the Cosmos , by all means , like I did , painstakingly catalog every factual attendance for the club since 1971 But this club has only been around since 2013 . Any attempt to fold in the attendance of another club is misleading at best . That faulty premise right at the very beginning undermines a lot of what you ' re trying to say . You ' re also overestimating the current team ' s attendance by ignoring another important variable the Pele factor . The Cosmos ' attendance receives a significant surge whenever he is in attendance for a special event , and you have to discount for that artificial boost . Still , this is very interesting and I can ' t wait to dig into it more thoroughly . All the work you ' ve obviously put in deserves no less .