A Sea Of Red

Lady Flames avenge only loss earlier in year 91-71. They are now 22-6 and get little to no love

Unblemished home conference record if I'm not mistaken

They are an unfortunate victim of the apathy generated by the mens program.

The women have never gotten regular-season "love," especially not during Big South play. Interest ramps up in the tournament because the women are expected to roll through the regular season. That's been the case since I've been here, unless the women are playing a high-profile non-conference game.

Chris Lang wrote:The women have never gotten regular-season "love," especially not during Big South play. Interest ramps up in the tournament because the women are expected to roll through the regular season. That's been the case since I've been here, unless the women are playing a high-profile non-conference game.

This. The only time attendance has been high for a conference regular season game is the CFAW it snowed and we were playing High Point for possession of first place.

I agree with SlyFox above.

There are more reasons for apathy than just the state of the Mens program

Purple Haize wrote:There are more reasons for apathy than just the state of the Mens program

Lack of generally entertaining basketball and lack of quality and/or big name opponents at home???

We do need to bring in a couple big name opponents to Vines Center.

ATrain wrote:

Purple Haize wrote:There are more reasons for apathy than just the state of the Mens program

Lack of generally entertaining basketball and lack of quality and/or big name opponents at home???

Partially but not entirely.

We played a ranked Auburn in the Vines Center in 2008 and had 739 people in attendance. its not entirely about who we are playing. we could have #2 South Carolina here and if we got 1,000+ I would be shocked

Hard to complain about what the women are doing compared to the men.

BJWilliams wrote:We played a ranked Auburn in the Vines Center in 2008 and had 739 people in attendance. its not entirely about who we are playing. we could have #2 South Carolina here and if we got 1,000+ I would be shocked

We would've likely gotten more for JMU, VT or UVA. People want familiar, big names.
VT 2007: 2,757
JMU 2007: 1,469
Richmond 2008: 768 (this was during Christmas Break)
George Mason 2008: 1,075

VCU 2008: 2,074

JMU 2009: 1,209

VCU 2011: 1,204

UVA 2013: 1,178

VCU 2014: 1,083

My point: If you want attendance in 4 figures, you'll need bigger, LOCAL names. It also helps if you have a star player that everyone is excited to see.

Finally, what Jinxy said.

My example was more to ballcoach's apparent point that we get big name power conference teams from out of state (and I know UVa and VT are from a P5 conference) for the "ESPN factor". Your numbers do bear out that over the years, the locals show up for the in-state "big names", but we can only play those teams once a year (twice if the NCAA tournament bears it out).