I don’t care much for sports, and I don’t own a TV….so….
While testing, I heard one of the sports talk shows mentioned something about the crowds at the NCAA basketball playoffs being so small that the TV cameras had to work hard to not show the crowd… in the random testing, I’ve bumped into a few stations streaming the games “by accident” and the crowd sounded more like a high school game or maybe a regular season women’s college basketball game than March Madness.
Is my impression accurate, or was it just a case of which game you’re talking about?
I rarely watch basketball but I did tune in to a few of the NCAA games this time around. I did notice in some of the arenas that the “upper decks” were dark and only the lower bowl of the arena seemed populated.
I don’t know if it has been like that in year’s past or not, but the crowd noise was by no means deafening.
It’s possible that the expanison of the number of teams in the once-was-64 made it less appealing. That kind of thing means money for the schools and exposure to the pros for the athletes. I am not sure it holds much for the true college basketball fan.
Perhaps that is what we see and hear?
Once upon a time, Mrs. Snuggs made such fine vegetable soup that her village neighbors encouraged her to open a soup restaurant. She did and she prospered. As more and people came for the soup, she had to prepare more and more of it. Soon the township learned of her delicious soup, and then the county. Business boomed. One day she had to add just a little more water to make her soup stretch to the end of the day. “Well, that worked fine,” thought Mrs. Snuggs, and she continued micro-diluting her famous soup, a tiny bit more each day, until one day something terrible happened. The Open sign was alight and the soup bubbled in large pots, but only a handful of people came in that day. Only a handful more came all week. “I wonder the problem could be,” she thought, as she dumped the old soup down the drain.