Bull94

I would run a promotion where the first say 200 people to show up get a free ticket. The next 200 get in for $5, the next 200 get in for $10. Promote this for all games. Start giving away the tickets an hour before tip off. I don't know what the increased overhead would be but I believe all these people might spend money at the concessions and for parking. It would actually bring in additional revenue and I think the players might appreciate seeing some people in the stands. I think the hardcore fans and boosters would not mind this because it would increase attendance. I don't know what our walkup numbers are but I don't imagine they are very high.

I think UAB beat S Miss by 8. This will be a huge game for our confidence. Hopefully we don't lose on a miracle 3 at the end like we did last year.

$10 might not increase attendance all that much but they have to consider this when talking about walkups. I don't mind paying $16 because I am a donor (heck- I donate $2k per year and can't even get a seat in the lower bowl-not even when there are tons of empty seats). Give the donors who pay $16 the ability to use the empty seats in the lower bowl.The gators tickets are only $10 and they put a much better product on the floor. Charge $5 for the first say 200 walkups. Then go to $10 for the next 500. Then go to $15 for the remaining tickets. Start selling to walkups 1 hour before gametime. First come first served. Run this as a continuing promotion. The hot games will bring in the most revenue(not to mention lines at the ticket booth). When we play no name opponents we can still draw a crowd (we just won't make much money- rightly so).

I think it would be cool if our first bowl game is a BCS bowl game. I don't think teams that finish 7-5, 8-4, etc. deserve to go bowling. You should have to finish with no more than 3 losses.It used to be a reward and something special to get invited to a bowl game now half of the teams in D1 go.

Oops. sorry bullman. I forgot optimism is not allowed on this board. We're all supposed to realize how hopeless things are this year. I hope our players don't have your attitude. Thinking like that is a guarantee for failure. Might as well call it a season, huh? I'll be happy if they believe they can win every game, work hard trying, and never quit. Sounds like you're ready to.

All 3 of them played against ND. Horton was their leading scorer (hit the game winner) and Brown was their leading rebounder (and 3rd leading scorer). If we can contain their guard Harris then I think we may have a shot. Mac should be familiar with these guys.

3 starters hurt in 3 days. This should help our chances. Hopefully Mac gets them fired up for this one.

http://www.sportsline.com/collegebasketball/story/7974476

Gators stepped up and paid the man $2 mil per. I think I heard that they offered $1 mil more than ND. I wonder if he remembers the beatdown he took in RayJay back in '02.  Awesome to see a #25 ranked team get their heads handed to them.

http://isis.fastmail.usf.edu/usf-athletics/Releases/football/2002/11/16/20021116.htm

http://bgsufalcons.collegesports.com/sports/m-footbl/recaps/111702aaa.html

Maybe he doesn't have a team first attitude. He came in thinking he was going to take over and then he only plays 6 minutes and says screw it. Wouldn't be the first time a "star" athlete with a bad attitude would put himself ahead of the team.

Markey Mark

Check out the 2 stats that I used and the top 20 teams from last year. Some real good teams on there. In fact quite a few of those teams made a pretty good run in the tourney (even the mid majors i.e. Utah State and Manhattan)

3 point percentage - St Joe's, UCONN, Marquette, Utah State, MSU, Gonzaga- all in the top 11 teams.

Free throw percentage- NC State, Arizona, MSU, Butler, Manhattan, Stanford, Gonzaga, Louisville, Florida, Marquette-all in the top 15.

Stats aren't everything but I've seen tons of games won and loss on the free throw line. I'd be willing to bet that the better teams are closer to the top in these categories than they are to the bottom.

http://www.ncaasports.com/basketball/mens/stats/div1/team_free-throw_percentage

http://www.ncaasports.com/basketball/mens/stats/div1/team_three-point_field-goal_percentage

Sherrif

Discipline and shooting have everything in common. Not only do you need the discilpline to work hard on your areas of weakness but you need the discipline to work to get an open look at the basket. NBA players don't shoot free throws well because they don't have the discipline to work on them. They are to concerned with how their next dunk is going to look. Why do you think scoring is down from 20 years ago? I never suggested that Greenberg didn't work on these things only that Our Coach seems to be doing a good job with them this year. You are the one who implied that I was bashing Greenberg.

Not much fun leading the conference in FT percentage either. Better get on Coach about 3 ball percentage too. 2nd in the conference and #12 in the country is not going to cut it for this crowd!!

Shows what a little discipline can do for a team.

http://www.sportsline.com/collegebasketball/stats/teamsort/USA/SCORING/regularseason?&_1:col_1=10

http://www.sportsline.com/collegebasketball/stats/teamsort/USA/SCORING/regularseason?&_1:col_1=13&_1:col_2=10

I donate $2k and I'm still not able to sit in the lower bowl. I asked about moving down as my donation increased this year but they said there was no availabilty. I wish there was a way that donors could get access to these unused tickets. Possibly take a list of donors who would like to trade for these seats (rank them according to donation level) and match them with donors who don't plan on attending the game.  It's not real fair for those of us who make a decent donation, attend 80% of the games, and can't get a decent seat because someone donates much less, has been a donor longer and never attends a game. If they don't come why do the care where the seat is located?

it looks like there was a reason he wasn't chosen.  Good thing they discovered it (whatever it is) before they hired him.

http://bulls.tbo.com/bulls/MGAPE81D6UD.html

Interesting. Hollis doesn't make top 2.

http://bulls.tbo.com/bulls/MGA8GSS5WTD.html

anybody know if we are looking into this Countryside guy? Lemming has him as a top 8 QB for 2005. We've got to keep the homegrown talent.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/recruiting/news/story?id=1782098

Has anybody seen this? At least someone is noticing. I hope he gets drafted.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2004/football/nfl/specials/draft/2004/04/21/over_under/?cnn=yes

I think, with as much money as these kids bring in for their schools, that the schools should pay them a stipend of $60 a week for every kid they need to support. That would include the responsible fathers like K Verpale. I'm sure he and his wife could have used the extra money while he sacrificed working a full time job in order to play football. NY Times said we had like 60 kids between the football players. That would be like $187,000 a year. A drop in the bucket for what they bring in. That would be the humanitarian thing to do rather than using their services for free and making millions on it all while they are unable to work and help support their kids.

I'm sure there are plenty of student-athletes with kids in the same situation. How could they afford to pay support when going to school full time and competing in athletics(no time left to work). The state or federal government needs to step in and loan people (athletes or not) support payments while going to college. Something similar to a student loan. They need to be going to school full time and 6 months after they graduate or stop going to school then they have to start paying back the loans. They are trying to improve their situation by going to school in the first place (at least they should be). They should earn more money in the future with a college degree and should be able to provide their children with a better life. I bet he could make his payments if he were working at mcdonald's full time but where would that get him or his kids in the future.