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Message: [QUOTE="Townie72, post: 1906004, member: 780"] The GU athletic facilities by any measure are pretty bad. Building this seems to me to be fear-driven. They sense the BB program, which hasn't had a lot of success lately --- might be slipping down in National relevance. So this is part of an effort to regain some visibility and momentum. I think this will be a losing effort. The smart, but geeky, student body doesn't really care about basketball or any other sport. A large proportion of the older alumni have always felt the JT Jr hi-jacked the GU BB program to make it into something else. And the locals just don't care about GU basketball as the half-empty Verizon Center clearly demonstrates. Why SU continues to throw them a life-line mystifies me. Except that it's an event that will sell a lot of ticket and draw eyes to the TV for those that haven't figured out that this is not a very important game for SU to schedule. [/QUOTE]