This is an informative article as Vic and the players bemoan attendance for good reason. Article should have been written much sooner. CDC and company should be ashamed for lack of support. Does he even attend games like the Baylor game, etc ? (Excerpts, article worth the read)
Over 13 games this season at the Erwin Center, Texas is averaging a crowd of 2,649. That's No. 37 nationally. The Erwin Center's capacity is 16,540.
Four Big 12 schools are averaging bigger crowds. And Texas trails 19 unranked teams. Texas Tech (4,635), Minnesota (3,166) and Wisconsin (2,867) all have losing records, and Arizona State (2,725) is 12-12.
"You've got a top-10 basketball team in your community, and you're not even in the top, whatever, in attendance. That's sad," Schaefer said. "It's very disappointing. It's frustrating for me as a coach. You know, these kids deserve better.
In recent years, fans have shown plenty of apathy toward women's sports at UT. Last November, volleyball coach Jerritt Elliott pointed out that his perennial powerhouse program had historically been unable to sell out 4,000-seat Gregory Gym for first- and second-round matches of the NCAA Tournament, and said, "We need to be able to do that."
As a department, Texas has seemingly skimped on the promotions for the UT women. There's been no "Party at the Tower" promised to the students. No mimosas have been given out at the women's games.
"A lot of times, our away games have way more fans than we do at home, which it's more fun when there's more fans," Holle said. "So a lot of times, the away games are more fun than the home games, which I don't think it should ever be like that."
In the aftermath of Schaefer's rant, a local reporter suggested that having football players in the crowd could draw in more fans. That led to starters DeMarvion Overshown, Xavier Worthy and Jake Majors pledging that they'd be in attendance Saturday night.
https://www.hookem.com/story/sports/womens-basketball/2022/02/26/texas-basketball-longhorns-womens-team-struggling-attendance/6933446001/