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The Pac 12 deal I am sure siphons away some of the fans who are most able to afford to buy the tickets and make the drive.  

This evening's game (8:00 p.m.) is a good example.  [Actually, I don't know if this is on P12 or not - but effect of TV also negatively impacts attendance].  When my kids were younger, an 8:00 p.m. start would be a non-starter (and is now for my niece, an Ivy grad, and her kids in Palo Alto).  I may bring one kid to tonight's game.

I know this sounds like a "get off my lawn" or #okayboomer lament:  but I miss the days of the Pac 10, with Thursday/Saturday games (occasionally a Sunday one) and a complete home and away round robin.  No need for a post-season tourney to determine conference champion.  The season did that.

Oh well . . . maybe I'll try and go to Vegas this year for P12 tourney and feel better about the whole thing . . .

But if you went to the tourney, you'd end up pulling your hair out after watching 2-3 games of Pac-12 officiating without a break.
I know I'm not the only WBB fan who has substantially reduced going to games in person in order to avoid Missy PTSD. The worst part of this is that the conference basically doesn't seem to care whether I go or not. Twenty years ago, Washington, Stanford, UCLA, USC and ASU had the potential to be revenue generating programs. As I recall, Washington was actually revenue generating during most of the Chris Goebrecht era. They've traded ticket admissions for Pac-12 network revenue. Only, that isn't going so well...

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The Pac 12 deal I am sure siphons away some of the fans who are most able to afford to buy the tickets and make the drive.  

This evening's game (8:00 p.m.) is a good example.  [Actually, I don't know if this is on P12 or not - but effect of TV also negatively impacts attendance].  When my kids were younger, an 8:00 p.m. start would be a non-starter (and is now for my niece, an Ivy grad, and her kids in Palo Alto).  I may bring one kid to tonight's game.

I know this sounds like a "get off my lawn" or #okayboomer lament:  but I miss the days of the Pac 10, with Thursday/Saturday games (occasionally a Sunday one) and a complete home and away round robin.  No need for a post-season tourney to determine conference champion.  The season did that.

Oh well . . . maybe I'll try and go to Vegas this year for P12 tourney and feel better about the whole thing . . .

But if you went to the tourney, you'd end up pulling your hair out after watching 2-3 games of Pac-12 officiating without a break.
I know I'm not the only WBB fan who has substantially reduced going to games in person in order to avoid Missy PTSD. The worst part of this is that the conference basically doesn't seem to care whether I go or not. Twenty years ago, Washington, Stanford, UCLA, USC and ASU had the potential to be revenue generating programs. As I recall, Washington was actually revenue generating during most of the Chris Goebrecht era. They've traded ticket admissions for Pac-12 network revenue. Only, that isn't going so well...