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Message: [QUOTE="Dr. Bill, post: 5200549, member: 5045"] This is A Syracuse Women's Basketball thread, yet, there are very few posts about Women's Basketball on here! Where are all the fans who are passionate about Women's Basketball ? I continue to try to help raise the awareness that we have two hoops teams on this campus and they both need our support. I live in South Carolina and get up to Columbia to see my home girl Dawn Staley and the Gamecocks play as often as possible. Every game is sold out! When Dawn's team plays, it is a must see event. Yes, it is easy to say...the fans are coming because they are winning! It wasn't always that way, she built that program into a winner. Coach Jack is trying to do the same thing here at Syracuse...and she is the one who can do it, but she needs our help! Steps we can take: 1A: Come out to the games and support the team with your presence. They need to see us and hear us in the stands! 1B: They are in desperate need of our Financial Support! There are multiple ways you can do this! Everyone can't write a check for a million dollars, but everyone is capable of donating whatever you feel comfortable giving to the Coach's Fund. This money can be used by the team to support vital activities necessary to support the players and team that fall outside of the existing budget. NIL and collective financial support is huge as it relates to recruiting players now. Look at the state of our current recruiting, we are not even in the conversation with players who would normally be interested in the Cuse, but because we can't match the money other schools are offering, top players are cancelling campus visits. Look at our current roster, and next year's potential roster, notice something? We have a huge gap at Center. We have not recruited a 6-4 to 6-5 post player in the past two recruiting cycles, with the exception of one player from Greece, who was not quite ready for ACC play. Outstanding players right in our backyard, are not even interested in talking to us after the money conversation ends. This is a huge problem. Some posters are blaming this on the staff and insinuating about their recruiting chops, and that is similar to the proverbial dog barking up the wrong tree. 2. Demand better media coverage of the team. Why are there so few articles or coverage of the women's team? I have asked this question before and a prominent Syracuse media personality responded with the fact that when the number of looks are evaluated for Syracuse Women's basketball articles, there are not enough people even reading the articles, which I find to be very sad. Women's College basketball is experiencing a huge resurgence in interest and TV viewership and We are a part of that wonderful sport, but for us to capitalize on this trend, we have to strike while the iron is hot. Come out to the games is a very easy ask to fulfill. We have a very exciting team, the games are fun and as good as any men's game you will ever watch. Support the team with your financial gifts. Our young women need you! [/QUOTE]

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