Of the 3 FCS schools Western Illinois has the largest capacity at 16,300. But has little room for temp stands. Illinois state is at 13,000 same issue with temp stands. Eastern Illinois is at 10K has some more room but has a track around it. Not sure if they would like temp stand on their...
NIU is just short of 24K. They probably could put temporary seating in one end zone and work around scoreboard on ther endzone to possibly push to 28-30K.
FCS schools should be a non starter as I heard temporary seating going to be 15K at the practice field.
Some of it is CC related. But also the success she has has the last couple of years. Other fanbases always hate the teams that are beating them.
But some of the hate should be discounted. ISU and Nebraska fans hate everything Iowa.
While I think the college woman's game will take a step backwards for the reasons you gave. It will still be ahead of what it was pre CC.
I don't think we will see the CC effect in the WNBA like many do. People are programed to watch basketball in winter to mid spring. WNBA schedule is late...
Blue Bloods don't like when people crash their party. Notice when someone in the media discount CC they always have a blue blood background.
They are OK with an Iowa making sweet 16's even elite 8's ever so often. But final 4's and the championship its hold on a second. They're jealous she...
It was unfortunate we made the perfect storm of errors to give UCONN a chance at the end. It gave the tin foil hat wearing conspiracy theorists to push they were going to put IA in the CG Sunday agenda.
Plus just great to hear from every UCONN player to ever play for Geno.
The people who make that argument never take into account she did this at Iowa. The players they put up there against her with championships played on blue bloods that had 5 stars on the bench. Let's also not forget the talent level in the women's game has gotten better.
A lot of the hatred comes from it's being done at a school like Iowa. They are not a blue blood but not that mid major that people like to gush over during March Madness.
Ironically the fact she's doing it at a good but not great program is making the game more popular. If she went to a blue...
Another thing that keeps them from being at the same level as other Blue bloods is how many elite 8's and final 4's they have made without winning the whole thing. Other blue bloods have easily double what UCONN has.