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Message: [QUOTE="Scrutineer, post: 3089853, member: 8240"] As a lifelong Yankee fan, there's a lesson the NCAA could learn from how attendance and interest in baseball lagged when the Yankees were awful for about 20 years from the early 70's to the mid-90's. If they destroy UConn, they destroy a major magnet for fans in a sport that doesn't have an overwhelming national interest. Nobody has the star power and draw of Geno and the Huskies and that affects ratings and thus the money advertisers are willing to pay. Look how well SNY has done. I wonder if anyone knows how the ratings of UConn's national games this year compared to those of Baylor, ND, Louisville, MS St and Oregon that did not include UConn as the opponent? [/QUOTE]