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Message: [QUOTE="im4cuse, post: 197836, member: 453"] I don't think people are aware how attendance-challenged Gtown is: there first six home games were all well under 10,000, including a rousing 6,800 for IUPUI. Included here is an annual game vs. American (also DC school). In conference, they had fewer than 8,000 for Cincy and barely 11,000 for Marquette (keep in mind these are the inflated numbers, not actual bodies in seats, as anyone whose been to one of their games can tell you). Most schools would want a home payday against a cross-town rival. I think the Cincy-Xavier example is apt. They could have 19,000 for a game with MD every other year, but as I said, the stands would be full of red and they might get beat. No doubt MD has huge financial pressures and that's what's motivating the clumsy effort to force a game, but Gtown wants no part of MD as it would be embarrassing. [/QUOTE]