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Message: [QUOTE="j66kicker, post: 2050384, member: 4447"] I was at a couple of DT's regular season away games at TN - the [I]"Punch something orange"[/I] game and the [I]"I thought they were mooing"[/I] game. I must admit those 18,000+ home crowds at Thompson-Bowling were loud and electric (and in the case of the "mooing" game, very ugly, with racial epithets, body shaming and threats screamed at DT and Geno). Man, that was a 'real' rivalry. Supremacy was slipping away from Tennessee and they DIDN'T like it at all, nor did they acknowledge it (some are still in denial). The few years I went to every game ALL the home games were sellouts and it was sometimes difficult to scam a couple tix. I wouldn't say the fans were 'rabid', but the energy level was high compared to nowadays. You even had to be weeks or months early to get away game tickets for nearby (Providence, BC, Rutgers, Villanova, etc.). But I got a wake-up call when I went to a men's game at Gampel vs. Oklahoma when UConn was ranked #1 and OU #3 (2003 or 04 I think). The energy and volume was WAY higher than any women's game I've ever been to. I mean order-of-magnitude higher, like feeling the thunder through the floor. I guess this difference is also reflected by the hundreds of $millions the NCAA makes off the men's tourney, a small portion of which they use to subsidize the women's tourney. WBB just doesn't seem to activate the 18-35 testosterone and associated sports spending power. [/QUOTE]