If they want the place to be a better atmosphere, then they should not play in such a massive venue.

Students are busy at one or another club meeting, tending to business at their frat or sorority, working a job to earn some money, or just studying in their dorm or at one of the libraries. Bottom line is USC is not an easy school anymore and most students don’t have that much leisure time.

Low fan turnout is merely a symptom.

As someone who goes to both M & W events at Galen, none have been particularly well attended. As far as the recent SC-ucla MBB is was far from ‘nearly full’ only the student section was ‘fuller’ than other games. The Galen was maybe 3/4s full, maybe. There were many bRuins fans – who were for once not particular loud.

The W Volleyball games were better attended than either the WBB or MVB thus far this year. And MVB seems lower than last year, but there has only been 5 or so home matches.

It should be ‘easier’ for students to come and support the teams because just the number of hours it takes is much less because of the location of Galen and none of the pre-game all day consuming activities, if nothing else. For VB & WMBB all one needs is a fuller lower tier to make a difference – because there are times it happens completely different atmosphere ensures. It is not like filling up the Coliseum there are plenty of students to ’spread around’ and more students live around the campus than in previous decades.

I do think marketing is part of it though and scheduling of WBB & MBB games vary by day and time of day presumably for some TV coverage. But even when I was in school I did not really consider the "other" sporting events very often. So I would say the situation is nothing new.

This year in the games I have seen I see remarkable improvement in the WBB’s play and skill level. I have complained previously about it being almost painful to watch, not this years and much of that has to be improvement has to be the coaching.

Andie Hagemann is justly pointing out the reality. It is not just students that might want to show more support but also other Trojan fans.

it was difficult to even find out about events. The DT didn’t prominently display events and students wouldn’t pick up a DT every day.

They should do a better job of promoting these days w/ social media, but they don’t appear to be. They should be blasting it on Twitter and sending a daily events text.

I have been on other campuses, notably Texas A&M, that did a wonderful of promoting. At TAMU, there are freshly painted billboards every day at major traffic points on campus announcing that days events and related promotions. Of course, there are also fewer entertainment options in College Station, but the entire campus always knew exactly what was going on and where.

More pep rallies with all the fixings so the starving students would help, but to get free eats you have to show up with the previous games ticket. Even at ucla they have had problems with attendance in the Sam gilbert BB team games lately, which isn’t even getting the 27-40 crowd anymore. Lets face it it’s a different era and the 35ers are more app to play Video games than drive to an evening ball game, heck even restaurants are suffering all over LA and OC.