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Post by wrj on Sept 23, 2022 20:03:53 GMT -6
Is the game sold out?
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Post by wrj on Sept 10, 2022 12:17:40 GMT -6
What time is your game? Thanks, and good luck.
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Post by wrj on Sept 3, 2022 11:04:11 GMT -6
Time and TV coverage?
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Post by wrj on May 25, 2022 14:46:25 GMT -6
I would like to say academic choices and quality, but I am not sure how often that is actually important.
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Post by wrj on Apr 15, 2022 16:46:47 GMT -6
I agree with everything you wrote. I genuinely believe that Coach Dawn will build a program that will inspire a bunch of those 60,000 fans that attend their football games into their basketball arena. Can she fill their 14,000 seats? I doubt it. But I've been wrong before.
In short, my point is that West Virginia will be a step down only if she falls short of the goals set jointly by WVU and Coach Dawn. That just isn't her style.
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Post by wrj on Apr 15, 2022 16:04:31 GMT -6
I will preface my thoughts by saying that I believe that the Summit League would be better next year with Coach Dawn.
Now my thoughts on women's basketball at West Virginia. WV didn't hire Dawn to have her coach a weak team in the Big 12. They didn't hire her to coach a team unable to garner the same feeble fan interest that has been their recent past. They aren't paying her several hundred thousand dollars per year to continue having the same thing they have had. They will be expecting her to do what she did in Vermillion; to take the team to the top tier of the conference standings,to increase fan interest, and to grow the prestige of the program to a point where press conferences, fan gatherings, and other events will be taken more seriously. I predict that she will succeed.
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Post by wrj on Apr 2, 2022 10:57:32 GMT -6
So, let's play pretend and lead ourselves to some not necessarily rational questions. If Northern Colorado joined the Summit and brought football and became a travel partner with Denver; if Omaha brought back football, or St. Thomas added scholarships, or Oral Roberts added American football, or some other school brought football to the Summit to bring the number of Summit football teams to seven, or more, would this lead to either enticement, or leverage for other schools to join the Summit? (Please don't show that last sentence to my English teacher.) Could Northern Iowa be influenced to join the Summit? They could be the basketball travel partner with St. Tom. How about Missouri State?
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Post by wrj on Mar 31, 2022 13:45:52 GMT -6
If a player sits out a year for injury while attending his last year at his "old" school, does that have any effect on his eligibility to play right away at his "new" school?
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Post by wrj on Mar 23, 2022 12:28:34 GMT -6
We took 81 all the way to Wichita on the way to Oklahoma a few years back. No problems at all. Really not sure why you'd go through KC unless you really wanted some BBQ. Is it 2 or 4 lanes on US 81? Been wondering what the best route from SF is, as apple maps shows same time whether you go to York and down 81, thru Yankton and down, or to Omaha then down US 75 through Topeka and over on I 335. Some two lane and some four lane. The two lane was generally not congested.
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Post by wrj on Mar 23, 2022 10:56:59 GMT -6
For any Coyote fans planning to use the interstate when traveling south, please check out road construction around the Council Bluffs/Omaha area. We were traveling north on I-29 a few weeks ago and discovered that the interstate was closed to all traffic headed north. Our detour took us 40 minutes out of our way to the east before we got back on the interstate just north of Council Bluffs. Things may have changed since then but save yourselves some aggravation (and gas) and check it out beforehand. Lest I forget "drive to arrive" too! I drove from Yankton to Wichita using US Highway 81 in February. It was a pleasant drive, pretty much free of frustrations. Unless new projects have been started I suggest considering this route. While there, I suggest Chedder's Scratch Kitchen. I know it's a chain, but very enjoyable.
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Post by wrj on Mar 21, 2022 9:13:45 GMT -6
Congratulations. Keep it going,
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Post by wrj on Mar 18, 2022 6:06:18 GMT -6
... Everyone on this board ( with perhaps the exception of our visitors from up north ) wants us to get a win. ... I say we get a 3 point Win. I am not an x's and o's guy, so I won't predict either score or margin of victory. I am confident the coyotes can win today. Good luck!
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Post by wrj on Mar 10, 2022 16:45:49 GMT -6
The longer it stays in SF and keeps drawing 8K to 12K a game in the finals, the more confident I am in saying it absolutely can not go anywhere else. Unless we get a completely insane commissioner. IMO many of the legitimate arguments that could have been made in exclusionary ticket sales practices have been addressed and fixed this year. Arguments now are essentially just sour grapes. If you want great seats, get on the ball and purchase them when they come out. If you want lower bowl seats, purchase through your team's allotment. Simple as that. Hell, you can now find lower bowl tickets for single sessions at the last minute if you know where to look. The league office is in Sioux Falls. The geographic center of the conference is now near Plainview, NE. Omaha is probably the closest "Large City" to the center, but they don't care about Summit Basketball. USD is the closest school to the center, followed by UNO, then SDSU. The SLT didn't make women's basketball important in Vermillion and Brookings, and it isn't the thing that is keeping the North Dakota programs from improving. ND does have fans that will support women's teams, but right now they don't yet have elite coaching, recruiting and program momentum. Don't blame Sioux Falls. As far as NDSU, I think their fans just blow their travel budgets on Football. That's the only explanation I have for why they don't have a large contingent in the SLT. Their men's team has won plenty of times in a hostile blue arena. Don't tell me it's too hard to travel from ND to Sioux Falls when football fans fly all over the place. It's a matter of priorities. Well stated.
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Post by wrj on Feb 8, 2022 17:12:12 GMT -6
...If announcing specifically for one team's fans, a little hometown preference is expected. If a national or regional audience is the target, objectivity is mandatory... I mean, I get what you are saying, but I disagree that being a homer has to be an expected thing for a local announcer. I think we have grown used to that, but it shouldn't be an expectation, IMHO. Take the examples of two different guys that are currently hired by our own University to call games, Thayer and Woodiel. They are both really good at play-by-play with some thrown-in color commentary in multiple sports. I enjoy listening to both of them. IMHO, Thayer is a major Homer, and Woodiel is a lot more objective. Woodiel doesn't often inject his opinion of the officiating, for example, and Thayer does. That fact doesn't really make me dislike either one more or less. They are both good at what they do, and entertaining. If we are expecting the home announcer to be a homer, what does that say about us? That we can't handle objective opinions or criticism? That's kind of sad, if you ask me. Also, many people get angry if they have to listen to broadcasts that are homerish to another team. It doesn't bother me that much, I guess. For example, the Western Illinois football guys were so bad, it was humorous and entertaining to me. They were like characters in a mockumentary like Spinal Tap or Best In Show. I certainly wasn't offended, triggered or angry. Just my Opinion. And your humble opinion is valid. As I reread my post and my phrase, "a LITTLE hometown preference", I realized that word. "little" was a good example of my main point. I was thinking more of a bit more emphasis when the announcer calls touchdown three, or goal for the home team than the opponent as opposed to saying the other team got away with another violation on every play. It really is a tough subject to write about.
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Post by wrj on Feb 8, 2022 11:51:01 GMT -6
This is a tough question because there are so many different dynamics going on in a broadcast. The announcer should always speak to the audience he or she is selected to target. If announcing specifically for one team's fans, a little hometown preference is expected. If a national or regional audience is the target, objectivity is mandatory. Tone of voice is important, but cannot really be defined. The same is true for word and phrase choice. Two well known examples come to mind, Dicky V and Joe Buck. Different people love or hate one of both of their styles. It's a complicated question to answer because it is so difficult to define voice tone, word flow, phrase choice, etc unless you want to just describe the horrendously awful.
I tuned in to one MVC team's football broadcast last fall when I didn't have a dog in the fight. I literally felt pity for that team's fans for having to put up with that week after week.
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