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Message: [QUOTE="Blue Blood, post: 4893226, member: 5907"] I think Covid may play a larger role in this and not just the fifth year perspective. A lot of the players currently playing D1 played many if not most of their most formative games in front of no audience. Not saying high school gyms have the same environment as colleges but there would be a level of skin thickening that would happen. Hostile environments are going to feel more hostile if that is not something you are used to. Over the past couple years the upper-classmen on the team had the pre-covid experience that is not the case anymore so I do wonder if there is a bit of that leadership gap there. In addition to that the trend of playing fewer and fewer true road games has continued with more MTEs and computer number manipulation players get exposed to opposing fan bases less and less so the impact of a raucous crowd is enhanced. [/QUOTE]