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Message: [QUOTE="Carnac, post: 3718071, member: 5798"] Check and double check Alydar. We hear coaches all the time talk about how they want WCBB to grow and become more popular across the sports landscape. But here's the thing, They think like coaches, we think like fans. We have no skin in the game when it comes to them keeping their jobs or not. We do not, and have never looked at the game through the same lens as they do. They deal with a lot of challenges from above (administration/AD) and below asst coaches/players, parents, media) that we never hear about. We only see them pacing the side lines during their games, and at pressers afterwards. Query: (this is a rhetorical question) What do you think "the average coach" would do given two choices here? If a any WCBB D-1 coach had the choice of winning the national championship, or............building and popularizing the sport and trying to attract new fans to WBB, which do you believe they would choose? Remember, they can only choose one of these two options. :rolleyes: That's right!!! winning the championship EVERY TIME! It puts your program on the map if it's not already there, It's great for recruiting, free nationwide advertising by the TV news media, it increases interest in YOUR potential fan base (everyone likes a winner, and wants to be part of one), It increases your salary because of built in performance clauses, it increases your stature in the coach's fraternity among other things. So when you hear coaches say they want or would like to see an increase in interest in WCBB, it makes you wonder to what lengths they are willing to go to achieve that end. :rolleyes: Especially (as you said) [B]they have the chance to schedule games with a high level of public interest. Scheduling weak teams will [U]never[/U] increase fan interest.[/B] Playing as many competitive games as you can schedule will increase fan interest. That's why UConn's AAC conference games didn't draw more fans. A true "die-hard" UConn fan will go to all the games, regardless. While others don't want to spend the time and/or money to go to Gampel watch them beat up on a fledgling mid-major that can't even break .500 in the their won-loss record. Mediocrity never is fun or exciting to watch. :( Note the attendance when an "elite" top 5 program comes to town, the place is sold out. ;) [/QUOTE]

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