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Message: [QUOTE="DefenseBB, post: 4763475, member: 7492"] I always appreciate your perspective and while I can "hear" your counter-arguments, I would also add that many of the PAC 12 schools do very little to "market" the teams to the locals. I will say that to Lindsay Gottlieb's credit, last year USC (in deference to my SC for South Carolina) saw a huge increase in their game attendance from 740 in 2021-22 to 4,106 last year. Let me reiterate that again, in Los Angeles, The USC Trojans increased their attendance from [B]740 to 4,106. [/B] The other observation and the data I have to support my views are, each and every year Stanford gets to host the 1st two rounds of the NCAAT and yet they still don't come close to filling Maple Arena which holds 7,233. And yes, I am aware that those dates usually coincide with Spring Break which is when UConn also has their spring break, yet somehow UConn still sells out and Stanford still only drew 4,245 and 5,071 last year. The school, the team and the coaching staff all need to step up their efforts although with their pedestrian numbers, they will fit right in with the other ACC schools who also do not market their teams well. What's their excuse-most of them are in small media markets without a lot of sports competition? Again, I meant that for the masses, not you per se'. [/QUOTE]