I don't think anyone is arguing they don't have the time. It's about how they want to spend their time. It's more fun, efficient and easier to go downtown than travel to and from Carver on a cold winter school night, which is a huge time consuming pain in the ass.
Well, we did have a parent--in the post I quoted--who did, in fact, argue that point. His daughter, he said, is too busy studying to attend basketball games. So there's that.
But I also attended Iowa so long ago that . . . wait for it . . . there were NO CAMBUSES! That's right, my friend, I walked to classes from Hillcrest and Rienow, across the frozen Iowa River, at 7 a.m. in mid-January. And then I walked back around 11 or 12. Got plenty of steps in back in those days.
Of course, the Field House was the basketball venue then, so getting to a game was pretty damn easy for me, unlike those poor souls, mostly women, who lived on the other side of the river.
And recently, as an old alumnus, I have ridden the fans' Cambus from Hancher to Carver in miserable weather. Rain, snow, sleet . . . and I've stood outside in the rain waiting for the bus to return me to my car. I realize battling the elements to attend a sports event is no longer considered civilized or intelligent behavior, but still, you can go downtown and get drunk . . . or whatever it is that kids do in downtown Iowa City that's so damn fun and entertaining . . . or you can attend a dozen or so basketball games a year. But having said all that, as Rhett put it so long ago, frankly, my friend, I just don't give a damn.
