Tuned into college bball

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Yawn. I didn't realize how much of a crowd is a necessity in basketball to make it interesting. I can't get into this. It's a wide open gym or arena, followed by benches that are folding chairs and players are sitting 10 yards away from each other. The atmosphere absolutely sucks.

I guess you could have seen this coming, I was never a fan of the Final 4 games being played in NFL stadiums and even though you have 30,000 people in it, it feels empty and hollow. Now have no fans and this product is unwatchable.

This reminds me of the days of playing basketball when you were on a travel team and you'd typically play only tournaments on the weekends, but randomly you'd have some game vs some random team on a Tuesday and both coaches scrambled to get a gym and found a local church.
 
OP is kinda right, tbh

the lack of a crowd seems to loom larger in basketball than it does for football and baseball
 
I'm confused. This is the college basketball board right? Why did this suddenly get turned into a football conversation?
 
I honestly don't miss the fans. Of course my team is blowing everyone out so they really haven't needed that boost from the fans yet but I'm sure I'll miss them eventually
 
I honestly don't miss the fans. Of course my team is blowing everyone out so they really haven't needed that boost from the fans yet but I'm sure I'll miss them eventually

I think basketball people don't mind it but the casual fan enjoys the atmosphere as much as the game itself. I admit it, I'm like that in football. Without the atmosphere, it's lost a little bit of it's luster with me. But I'm more of a hoops guy so I'm fine with the guys playing in a LA fitness gym as long as it's good basketball.
 
I'm confused. This is the college basketball board right? Why did this suddenly get turned into a football conversation?

Ducks are 1-0 in PAC 12 play. They should cancel the rest of their games and claim a conference title
 
I think the not having fans is worse in football than basketball. Basketball at it's core is a small spectator sport. NBA playoffs were fine.

However ... the not actually playing the games part is a problem...
 
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