Well if your team is losing year after year there will be a downturn. Human nature is about winning. Also there could be a lot of the students or recent graduates not interested in football period. In fact maybe people across the nation are losing interest in football at least in the college ranks. You hear more about athletes getting into trouble and getting away with it. The landscape of America has changed. The World as well. We now have violence, drugs, racial issues etc. which is like a virus spreading.