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Message: [QUOTE="whaler11, post: 2551971, member: 676"] It’s more than just the recent poor play. This is part of a trend that started a while back. 1. As the school has gotten academically better you have fewer kids who pick it because they grew up fans locally or who focus on sports 2. The student body is more national and international than ever and we ship them and our in-state kids out of town post grad. 3. If you were an adult when the Big East came into being you are either near or past retirement age - so many of those people retire elsewhere. 4. The last 10 years or so of college kids everywhere are less interested in college sports. I think that’s a combination of technology, competition and taste. 5. A lot of the fans who are left are spoiled. We really haven’t had a bad period since they won the NIT. Even when the team was down they still were competitive and in the best league in the country. 6. There are some fans we’ve lost to women’s basketball. They just don’t want to be bothered with something that doesn’t guarantee them 2 national championships every 3 years or so. 7. The NBA is destroying college basketball. That league blew up. 8. College basketball is now only about March. I think people see the small sample size of games on TV where there are still loud and engaged crowds and ignore the 330 schools where disinterest is in vogue. 9. Everywhere frontruns - but Connecticut is the most frontrunning place I’ve seen. When teams are bad they cease to exist. People just drop them - and that goes for all the professional teams as well. Wait until Brady and Bill move on - it will be hilarious the first Patriots 7-9 season with some below avg QB. I work for a big company and sit in Hartford. UConn is not a topic and other than fantasy football I don’t hear much sports talk at all from the employees in their 20’s. 15-20 years ago my generation that was all we talked about. We had an 8 hour a day email chain on sports with a huge distribution. The only thing any of my friends who are fans of other teams ask me now about UConn is when is Ollie gone. [/QUOTE]

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