palestra38
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12-22-17 10:43 AM - Post#241013
In response to JadwinGeorge
We've discussed this at length on the Penn Board---the student bodies of Ivy schools are completely different from the 1970s, when the schools had a primarily male, New England - Mid Atlantic majority who grew up in the heyday of broadcast sports. Today's student body is international, majority female with no such background in spectator sports and if they do, it's in terms of fantasy leagues and big time college basketball and football available to them on their devices at all times. Peloton is more of an attraction than attending a game. Penn has exacerbated the bad situation by being bad for 10 years and by doing so, lost what student fan base it had. But the comments about Princeton's home fans being over 70 cuts pretty close to the mark----all the devoted alumni are aging and the students over the past 10 years or so will not be replacing us. I don't know how that can change, nor do I believe a conference tournament will change the demographics that are responsible for the declining interest.
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