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Post by dave on Jan 5, 2018 12:50:54 GMT -6
FWIW I've sat lower bowl corners and they are not bad seats, I've also been upper bowl mid court prefer the lower corner. The worst place to sit IMHO is lower bowl behind the basket. Buy lower bowl tickets and often times sections will open up as fans from teams who aren't playing in that game won't be there, it's pretty easy to "improve" your seats, just be respectful. I'm curious it's been 24hrs since seats have opened up how many have bought tickets.
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Post by dave on Dec 27, 2017 2:37:31 GMT -6
Maybe you should contact the Big Sky and see if they are still interested.
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Post by dave on Dec 18, 2017 6:44:58 GMT -6
I guess I see this a little different. Always happy to see the Jacks lose, but the truth is they were playing on Saturday and we weren't. Simple as that. Now, I get where you are all coming from, your sick of hearing from Jacks fans about how great they are, how superior they are to USD when they haven't done squat. I get that. SDSU's only claim to fame is they have the words Dakota & State in their name and they moved up the same time as the other Dakota State school. The more popular, more successful one. For some reason people associate the schools with each other and say their names in the same breath as if they are equals. They aren't even close to being equals. SDSU is the ultimate gravy training gold digger when it comes to their relationship with NDSU.[/b] So what does that make USD when it comes to their relationship with SDSU.
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Post by dave on Dec 16, 2017 7:39:23 GMT -6
How is it that the Bison are able to keep their coaches for so long? With the success they've had up there, they never seem to have any coaching issues. The NDSU booster club Team Makers is a huge fund raising machine, they pay their head coaches and assistants well. If you ever get a chance ask an average Bison fan how much they have to pay for season tickets and Team Makers donation the number will blow you away.
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Post by dave on Dec 14, 2017 21:28:16 GMT -6
I have always wondered how much the conference gets from the SL Tournament. Last year they had an all time attendance record of 65,533, which broke the record of 60,007. With the money the SF Sports Authority pays for the tournament, the gate receipts, TV review and the sponsors, it has to be in the millions. I wonder how much each school get from that event each year. Anyone want to take a stab at it. The last 12-14 years I've spent countless hours reading sports message boards and blogs and seem to remember reading somewhere that some mid major conferences the member schools have write out a check to have a post season conference tournament, The Summit League schools get to cash checks. Now don't take that as gospel as I'm getting older and more forgetful there is a possibility I'm misremembering something, LOL. BTW IMHO the big dance is the single greatest sporting event in the USA, it's not broke don't try to fix it.
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Post by dave on Dec 13, 2017 15:20:29 GMT -6
For those of you wanting a lessor post season tournament against your peers there already are a couple, they are called the CBI and the CIT. As others have stated the purpose of the regular season for a mid major is building a resume worthy of a twelve seed or better, IIRC a twelve seed has about a 40% chance winning a first round match up. The exposure for making the NCAA tournament is huge, winning a game is even greater, making the sweet sixteen IMHO is greater than a D II national championship and equal to a FCS national championship. Winning a game or a sweet sixteen appearance are achievable goals, need to get to a twelve seed, see NDSU and UNI, they've done it.
The SLT tournament in Sioux Falls is one of the most successful mid major basketball tournaments in the nation, and quickly becoming one of the most respected conference tournaments at any level. The Big Sky Conference and Horizon League have approached the Summit League to see why it is so successful and are making changes to their tournaments to copy ours. Moving the SLT from Sioux Falls would be suicidal, the SL university presidents recognize this, that's why it will stay in Sioux Falls for a long time, BTW the SL presidents, not Douple or SDSU, decide where the conference tournament will be held. USD fans have the opportunity to contribute to the success of the SLT and have, last year at the State-U game in SF I'd say the crowd was 60-40 in favor of SDSU, and if someone would say that it was 55-45 I wouldn't argue. USD fans were loud and represented your school very well, many of them were sitting in the lower bowl. Any eastern school complaining that the SL is becoming too Dakota-centric would be better served by concentrating their efforts at growing their fan base. The reality is they don't have many fans, it is just the simple fact in our region the Dakota schools are the big fish in the little pond, out east they are the small fish in the big pond. As far as the eastern schools defecting to the Horizon League it was well known when the Jacks and Bison joined the Mid Con that the Horizon League was the destination conference for Oakland and the Indiana schools, if an invitation was offered they were going to take it.
As far as the tournament winner earning the auto bid to the big dance that is the nature of basketball, you have the regular season, and when the post season comes around almost everybody is in the conference tournament and has a chance at winning a championship, and advancing to the national tournament and winning a national championship. In high school basketball everybody gets a district birth, win and advance to the regions and then the state tournament, even in the NBA what is it the top 2/3's make the playoffs, once again in basketball in the post season everybody is eligible to compete for a championship, it's the nature of the game. Lastly as a Jackrabbit fan if you Coyotes want to compete in the NIT, CBI or CIT, I'll gladly accept the NCAA bid.
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Post by dave on Dec 5, 2017 11:30:19 GMT -6
The MVC schools are cashing in on the shares of NCAA tournament money that Creighton and Wichita State earned for the conference with their deep tourney runs, it will be interesting in future, when the money runs out, if there will be any talk of movement. I would still love to see an all sports conference with the MVFC schools. That's a great insight and something I haven't heard mentioned before. Keep in mind that is purely a guess on my part I have no inside information on possible conference movement.
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Post by dave on Dec 4, 2017 22:11:41 GMT -6
I'm watching NDSU vs. Missouri St. (MBB), and notice Missouri St. has 4 games this year against SL teams. Wouldn't they be a good fit for the SL? Especially if UMKC is coming over? The MVC schools are cashing in on the shares of NCAA tournament money that Creighton and Wichita State earned for the conference with their deep tourney runs, it will be interesting in future, when the money runs out, if there will be any talk of movement. I would still love to see an all sports conference with the MVFC schools.
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Post by dave on Nov 20, 2017 12:43:30 GMT -6
Check out the game threads on other forums that followed the game. SDSU was getting mercilessly crucified for their cheap tactics. Everyone was calling them out. Phonies, just phonies. I can't believe they would even try to keep the schtick up. Just admit it was all planned, I'd respect you guys more if you were just honest. It's the smug arrogance we all know, won't allow you to admit you were wrong about something or that your football program would stoop to such dishonest tactics. Instead they do their best to flip it around and call USD classless. News flash Jack fans, no other fan base is trashing USD or calling us cheap, matter of fact, it's quite the opposite, they are calling out the Cramprabbits and your fan base. It appears the feeling is mutual throughout the conference, nobody likes you guys. Bisonville is never a good source.
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Post by dave on Nov 19, 2017 13:45:22 GMT -6
The Coyotes get to be that team that carries a big mantle to find out just how good this conference is. UNI gets Monmouth, Western gets Weber and the Bison bracket only has you guys as the only MVFC on their side of the bracket, plenty of MVFC teams that get to carry the MVFC mantle and show the rest of the FCS how tough this conference is, don't get too full of yourself CF, a few short hours ago you were writing epic posts proposing boycotts of USD football.
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Post by dave on Nov 19, 2017 10:50:12 GMT -6
Congrats on the playoff bid guys, you have some winnable games ahead of you.
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Post by dave on Nov 15, 2017 21:19:07 GMT -6
Anybody else getting a headache from that whiteish, purpleish color of the floor, what an ugly floor.
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Post by dave on Nov 4, 2017 6:48:33 GMT -6
10/20/12 enough said
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Post by dave on Oct 9, 2017 14:55:03 GMT -6
* Build in something unique - Cannons in the corner to fire off on KOs and after TDs, A Huge Bell that could be rung before the game and after scores. How about a Coyote Crazies Train Whistle going off? There are several ideas I am sure that could be considered. Here's an idea: Hand-held crank air-raid sirens. Several of these going off at once would sound like a pack of coyotes howling. A few stadiums already use large air-raid sirens (NFL Cardinals, Washington Huskies, etc.), but several smaller ones would be different. You'd have to probably OK it with the Valley, and only do it at certain times, like pregame, or after a touchdown. Kind of an annoying sound, but could be intimidating. For comparison, here's an actual Coyote pack howling. Terrifying. finally this jackrabbit fan and a coyote fan agree on something LOL!!!!
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Post by dave on Oct 6, 2017 7:22:07 GMT -6
Please explain how there is some bias with the people who voted in this poll, below is the link to the press release, I think all schools are equally represented. BTW I would have voted for USD as #1. I will say the same thing I said last year: I will be stunned if we finish that low. (PS - the only thing we know for sure about the representation is that is not equal. Zim votes, Mick doesn't. But I think this plays into our hands.) Wow Mick doesn't vote did not know that, why doesn't he vote?
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