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Message: [QUOTE="ivrytontusker, post: 2093332, member: 6648"] Right, because it is a novelty. Whether we can say it "matters" depends on what things look like at URI even when the team stinks. It's not that they couldn't build that kind of fanbase, but it isn't there yet. Of course Providence and BC have had success in the past. They don't today, and, in any case, do not have the statewide profile that UConn has. [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/03/upshot/ncaa-football-map.html']This map illustrates the situation[/URL]: Connecticut looks more like Ohio, Wisconsin, Louisiana, etc., than the rest of New England. (Admittedly, that is about football, but the point stands.) [/QUOTE]