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[QUOTE="DarthGrumpy, post: 1798479, member: 2141"]
Very true, that's where a lot of the money has gone too.

One trend that is not often talked about is that women's sports took off in the Northeast and California back in the 1970's.  Thus, it is not really a surprise that schools like UConn, UMass (was really good in the 90's especially with Briana Scurry [who happened to be from Minnesota] in net), Hartford, UCLA, Santa Clara, Portland, etc. along with schools that recruited heavily from the northeast, like UNC [Kristine Lilly was from CT] and ND dominated NCAA women's soccer.  As girl's sports, especially soccer and basketball, developed in the South and Midwest, the newly well funded teams took advantage of the expansion in recruiting territories.

PS - Just looked up the 2015 NCAA women's soccer attendance records.  I remember going to games in the '90's and there was almost always a good crowed at a UConn women's game.  Not seeing  UConn in the top 25 in 2014 was a surprise.  Do people still go to games or does UConn simply not report attendance figures?

[URL]http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/w_soccer_RB/2015/attendance.pdf[/URL]
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