If attendance is any marker of interest you will note that SC attendance last evening was over a thousand more than at the Robins Center. This despite the fact the UR athletic department is notorious for releasing inflated attendance numbers and the fact that the number of attendees was bolstered by more than a few Monarch fans.
The UR basketball team year in and year out receives considerable more press from the RTD than does the VCU program, despite the Rams being the dominate program in the area for a number of years, despite the fact that the Ram fanbase is considerably larger than that of the Spiders and the number of VCU students, alumni and fans far outnumbers that of the UofR. Bighorn said he had the figures and would release them to us but is apparently MIA, or maybe as a RTD employee he didn't wish to state in fact what many of us here have known for years.
We have discussed this subject to death in our threads on the CAAZone. I and a number of others have sent numerous letters to the RTD editorial staff, the executive sports editor and the sports pages in general. I remember one gentleman even attempted to address it one of the public forums sponsered by the newspaper. Despite the fact that I have been "correspondant of the day" and had numerous letters published on the editorial pages not one of my letters concerning the dearth of coverage for the men's BB program has ever been published or acknowledged, much less addressed. Although I still continue to subscribe to the RTD I no longer rely on it to provide me with news and information about my favorite sports team.
If newspapers wonder why they are fast becoming obsolete they only have to look on this example as a prime reason. I'm sure most long time posters on these boards are tired of hearing me whine about this subject and I'll just leave it at that.
