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Message: [QUOTE="bags27, post: 2588282, member: 6761"] Geno said also that they are just trying harder now, and I can testify personally to the unrelenting energies of a UConn intern who wouldn't let me alone until I bought season tickets. :) Better TVs of course are important in staying home, but from what I hear folks in South Carolina are beginning to buy TVs, too. It jumps out that UConn is the only school, until Maryland, and then only these two, in the more populated East Coast. And in some ways, UConn (Hartford-Storrs) isn't in so populated a region. Concentration of population actually can work against WCBB, since: 1. it is more costly to attend events (witness all the complaints about parking costs at UConn, that someone in NYC would laugh at); 2. and there is far more competition for the entertainment dollar. So, for most of these sites, WCBB is literally the only (or at least the most attractive) game in town. A lot of this phenomenon has to do with the land grant movement (1862) that created the big state universities in rural areas. I bet someone has done interesting research on college athletic attendance. [/QUOTE]