Budgets are not the primary nor are they even the SECONDARY issue with women's sports. Its the lack of care for it by anybody which includes female spectators. Most women themselves don't find watching women's sports intertaining and as a result,
they simply don't. Many of those same women
WILL however go to a men's game buying tickets and even merchandise.
That heavy lack of care is WHY there is such little money in women's sports. You inject money into a men's team and you will more than likely experience a nice return. You inject money into a National Women's Soccer League team or a Women's National Basketball Association team and you will not only loose that money but you will be operating your team in the negatives year after year. The WNBA(women's basketball league) has been around for nearly 30 years and its only alive even now because the NBA funds it. Again people, including most women, don't actually care about women's sports.
It would be more work then simply switching some images, Women's sports have been legal and heavily promoted for years and
even Women themselves just aren't that interested, That incredible lack of interest from men and women is why they aren't funded more, and most importantly is that if BB is already trying to fix a general lack of user interest in the Utopian league, why would they go and implement another league that At First might generate some interest but will ultimately go through the same problem that Utopia is going through only for slightly different reasons?
Right now on the collegiate level you can see this issue of a lack of interest from ANYONE again when most women's events including championships don't have many spectators. A bad men's team however routinely draws twice the crowd of a champion women's team.
If people do not care about it that much with interest only slightly growing slowly over the years, why would people care more on a manager game, not even 2k or something like that but a Much more slow pace manager game. I don't know what women you have been around in your life but i cant think of too many that would care even a little about this game being a first of its kind to offer women's teams. That
"good publicity" you speak of wouldn't actually reach that far and that's not me bashing women's sports, that's me being realistic about it all. I wish people cared enough to actively go to womens sporting events and not just Talk The Good Talk about womens empowerment without actually doing the simple thing of going to there games but most womens sports activist are actually just hot air.
The real world Translates directly to the digital world. If no one cares there, they wont care here much either.
For anyone that read all of this by the way, thanks for your patience as i know it was a bit long.