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Message: [QUOTE="Blades, post: 4368799, member: 9906"] [B]OK, [/B]respect your feelings, but I've watched it with my own eyes. It's students in general not the school. And[B] It's got worse, not better in the last 10 years[/B]. Because of social media, they can't get off their phones, etc., student interest in sports across the board has waned. Gone to a soccer game lately? The famed goal patrol and half the students clear out by halftime. Baseball and a brand new Elliot Ballpark? Never more than probably hundred or so students in the stands. Is that a myth ? and with free admission too. Evidently they've have better things to do, have a low attention span or probably a combination of both. I've had the conversation with 2 nephews who are recent graduates about this. It seems like hoops with the constant scoring and because it's fashionable( when they're winning, forget the KO years) is the only thing that seems [B]to keep the kiddies attention long enough to fill the building to the end. [/B]Hopefully hockey, as the new thing that is fashionable, becomes this too. Though I agree for hockey as a niche sport and the XL Center being to damn cavernous, it's a bad look and I'd pass on the bad atmosphere too. [/QUOTE]