Originally posted by Layton
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Well I can explain that one: Jesuit's admin is extremely incompetent when it comes to advertising (and other things). Years ago, when I was a student there they made sure everyone knew about every event. Athletics, student development, academics, and SGA would make a list of everything happening on campus that coming week and they would sent it to all students, the local community and alumni, and if there was a big event, like the West Lib game, you'd practically get daily reminders to show up or watch online. But for some reason they stopped doing that. Nowadays, you're lucky to get an update about teams being in the NCAA tournament and sometimes they'll forget to do that. It honestly feels like some brilliant admin decided that our athletics website was all you need for promoting our games and if a team wants more exposure they've got to do it themselves. That said SGA does occasionally run a whiteout or something to draw attention but for the most part advertising seems to be the team's responsibility. There are some coaches and teams that know how to promote and others that don't even try. Due to that, events will either draw a crowd or nothing at all. Students can only show up to games if they know they're happening. For example, basketball rarely sends out information to let people know there's a game and no one shows up. At the same time, Doyle and the wrestling team is outstanding when it comes to letting people know about meets and doing giveaways and because of that the gym is usually packed for their matches. They probably have the highest attendance numbers out of every team because they advertise everything; unfortunately I don't have anything to back that up because athletics only bothers to count paid attendance at basketball games; but that's another rant for another day.
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