As someone who lived in Providence for 11 years -- granted, some time ago -- I cannot imagine calling Elmhurst, with is a pretty major neighborhood in Providence, "obscure." Would be like calling Asylum Hill in Hartford "obscure,' or Southie in Boston. Or, okay, here's a better example. Would you say the location of Trinity College in Hartford is obscure? If so, I'll go along with the Elmhurst example. What I do know is that obscure does not mean "A place I don't know because I've never been there."
I also didn't recognize the "limousine liberal" description of PC. Way back when I was accepted there (but did not attend), I got the impression a lot of applicants were blue-collar like me, with a significant number of commuter students thrown in.
I was kind of squishy on what the term "limousine liberal" actually meant, so I looked it up and found it was a term coined by an opponent of John Lindsay (remember him?) when he was running for mayor of NYC. Lindsay was a blueblood, and an easy target for his opponents on that score. So, according to Wikipedia, a limousine liberal is "a pejorative term used to illustrate perceived hypocrisy by a political liberal of upper class or upper middle class status; including calls for the use of mass transit while frequently using limousines or private jets, claiming environmental consciousness but driving low MPG sports cars or SUVs, or ostensibly supporting public education while actually sending their children to private schools.
Providence College? Really? I get the private school part, because it is, but the rest?
Meanwhile, I agree with the previous post that suggested that the miserable attendance was a combination of a lousy team and awful marketing. I don't know what happened to this team. They seemed to be on an upswing for a couple of years -- never good, but much better than before, when they were doormats. I do know they ran into some debilitating injuries for a time. Maybe that has happened again.
Truth is, that market has never cared one whit about women's sports, at least not basketball, so even if the team were good, it'd be difficult to persuade the media to provide any kind of coverage. The sports agenda is set by Boston pro sports priorities, with some interest in football and men's basketball.
