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Because they win. Our fans would pack out Coleman for a chess match if we were good at it. In the sports world, gymnasics is ignored except for two weeks every four years. Hell, they don't even show the gymnastics national championships live on TV.

That's just dumb and stupid. Our women's tennis won a NC last year - what was their average attendance? How many people went to our golf team's matches? Your standard for what drives support is pretty far off base

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Posted by pvilleguru

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Posted on 2/20/15 at 10:40 am to CapstoneGrad04

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Our women's tennis won a NC last year - what was their average attendance?

UCLA won the NC last year.

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How many people went to our golf team's matches?

Probably not many since almost all of them are out of state.

It's the same thing with softball. You think they would sell out every year if they weren't constantly in the top 10? With the exception of football, our fans just flock to which ever sport is winning. Coleman will easily fill up when basketball is good, baseball fills up when they are good. It's hard to get our fans to show up to any sport besides football when we aren't very good.

ETA: I don't know anyone that went to the golf national tournament, but I know a ton of people that were following both the men's and women's tournaments online.

This post was edited on 2/20/15 at 10:52 am

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