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Originally Posted by esquire
^ It's too bad that the VC couldn't be held at the stadium of one of the competing teams. I can tell you a VC would be a tough sell in Winnipeg... I doubt you'd get more than 10,000 fans out unless the Bisons or maybe one of the Sask teams made it. By contrast, if the Bisons were playing, they'd get north of 20,000 fans.
I guess the challenge there is when you have only one game to decide a winner, how do you decide which of the competing teams gets to host?
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The Vanier Cup will always have that problem until Canadians get used to seeing CIS Football on television on a regular basis and it gets good coverage on nightly sports casts. If people in Hamilton were familiar with the Laval and Calgary football teams, players, and coaches from good media coverage attendance wouldn't have been as dismal as it was.
This isn't a quick fix but if we ever want U Sports to reach its potential/get the support it deserves it has to start with Canadian media outlets.
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