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Message: [QUOTE="Stainmaster, post: 2552897, member: 5260"] Improvement aside, rebuilding implies growing pains, raw players, and more disappointing results in games the old UConn would have handily won. The past four years have been hell on the fanbase to the point where (as RJScootin’s thread illustrates), the diehards are now casual fans, and the casual fans don’t even know the program exists anymore. It doesn’t help that the latter group only came around to support the team at the peak of the JC years, and can’t be arsed to support a team that isn’t one of the top five programs in the sport. I do agree that the particulars of the coach and how much improvement there is can increase fan support, but it’d only be with the subsection of diehards/BY posters getting back on the wagon and following the team in-depth again. How much does that move the needle in the macro sense? I really can’t say. [/QUOTE]