This week Joe Lunardi has the Bulldogs 15 seed playing Wichita State 2 seed in Dallas. Now that would be a fun location and game.
http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basket ... acketology
musiccitybulldog wrote:This week Joe Lunardi has the Bulldogs 15 seed playing Wichita State 2 seed in Dallas. Now that would be a fun location and game.
http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basket ... acketology
Play Angry wrote:BirdsEyeView wrote:musiccitybulldog wrote:I saw a 3D movie, "House Of Wax" down town Peoria at some cool old theater, then went to the Bradley game.
Now who is it that is concerned about these numbers?
Just an ever-changing topic from Shocker fans to prove how bad the MVC is without them. Gotta keep moving the needle until something lands. Some people are giving in to their posts.
These attendance concerns are not ours....only the athletic administrations at each school.Play Angry wrote:(I would create a separate thread for this but expect some might react negatively and view it as an attack of some sort). If someone else wants to copy the data and discuss in an independent thread, be my guest:
No pleasing some folks I suppose. I thought the relevant post was fair and avoided inflammatory generalizations (such as "Shocker fans...<insert derogatory remark>" which seem to be commonplace in recent pages).
In addition to the failed assertion by the one Shocker fan who steadfastly argued the MVC could slip to 16th, there are some fantastic factual faceplants by fans of another school ITT which were corrected in entertaining fashion. Should we all revisit those as well?
Let me know and I'll be happy to dig those up.
Play Angry wrote:musiccitybulldog wrote:This week Joe Lunardi has the Bulldogs 15 seed playing Wichita State 2 seed in Dallas. Now that would be a fun location and game.
http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basket ... acketology
I tried the Emmenecker Challenge at Jethro's not too long ago and fell woefully short. Hopefully the Shockers would fair better against the Bulldogs.
BirdsEyeView wrote:Play Angry wrote:BirdsEyeView wrote:
Just an ever-changing topic from Shocker fans to prove how bad the MVC is without them. Gotta keep moving the needle until something lands. Some people are giving in to their posts.
These attendance concerns are not ours....only the athletic administrations at each school.Play Angry wrote:(I would create a separate thread for this but expect some might react negatively and view it as an attack of some sort). If someone else wants to copy the data and discuss in an independent thread, be my guest:
No pleasing some folks I suppose. I thought the relevant post was fair and avoided inflammatory generalizations (such as "Shocker fans...<insert derogatory remark>" which seem to be commonplace in recent pages).
In addition to the failed assertion by the one Shocker fan who steadfastly argued the MVC could slip to 16th, there are some fantastic factual faceplants by fans of another school ITT which were corrected in entertaining fashion. Should we all revisit those as well?
Let me know and I'll be happy to dig those up.
Honestly, skimmed the text and only read the numbers in your messages. So apologies to you specifically.
As far as digging up past messages...Sure re-visiting terrible predictions is always fun. If anyone is ever on Twitter, follow "Freezing Cold Takes" which is predicated off this idea. Very funny.
musiccitybulldog wrote:Play Angry wrote:musiccitybulldog wrote:This week Joe Lunardi has the Bulldogs 15 seed playing Wichita State 2 seed in Dallas. Now that would be a fun location and game.
http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basket ... acketology
I tried the Emmenecker Challenge at Jethro's not too long ago and fell woefully short. Hopefully the Shockers would fair better against the Bulldogs.
It's hard to beat Jethro's as a good place to eat. The Bulldogs are playing much better this year, although ran into a buzzsaw at Valpo last night. At one point in the first half Valpo was just shy of 80% from three.
It would be great to have a game like Lunardi's forecast in Dallas, I hope it could happen. Fun time.
MissouriValleyUnite wrote:Play Angry,
I don’t see the attendance trend you note ever reversing. That’s the future and here to stay.
Attendance outside the major 7 leagues (P5+BE+AAC) is generally not good. There are major programs in midmajor leagues like Gonzaga, Dayton, and Saint Louis who have great attendance outside the M7 but again they’re M7 programs in a mid-major league. So the only true mid-majors killing it are probably GCU, VCU, and few MW schools.
I just don’t think attendance is all that important as long as you keep it top 10. A10’s gotten many non-Dayton/SLU bids for many years and their attendance is in-line with the MVC. If GW, LaSalle, RI, St Bonaventure, etc. can get recent bids with their attendance, nothing’s stopping MVC schools from stepping up too.
Expecting Dayton/SLU-like attendance is unrealistic. But I’d expect/hope Bradley (once a consistent winner) can match VCU’s and MVC 2-12 to match/exceed A10 4-14.
tl;dr
If MVC attendance is in-line with A10 attendance, it’s fine. If it dips out of the top 10, it’s trouble. I think it sticks top 10 even with this year’s dip.
MissouriValleyUnite wrote:Play Angry,
I don’t see the attendance trend you note ever reversing. That’s the future and here to stay.
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