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Post by riceownz2 on Jun 7, 2009 15:18:19 GMT -5
so the Marlyand Eastern Shore game is a for sure?
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Post by Raider Grad on Jun 7, 2009 15:28:29 GMT -5
Your definition of a casual fan is anyone who does not have season tix? Haha. Good one. I guess I am not a diehard of the Reds and Bengals because I do not have season tix. My wife will be happy to know I'm only a casual fan. I don't know about the Reds or Bengals, but you definitely fall into the definition of a casual fan for Wright State. You only went to one game last year. You made a very big deal about it the week leading up to the game. I'm not trying to insult you or say that you aren't a fan of the program, but you fall into the casual fan category. Casual by definition means occurring without regularity. Most of our fan-base falls into the same category. You were willing to drive to Dayton last season to see our Raiders play Butler. That was the top game on our home schedule. Even though you post on here regularly and care about WSU's basketball team, none of the other teams we played impressed you enough to come out to the Nutter Center to see them in person. That is my point. Our crappy home schedule isn't going to attract many casual fans.
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Post by Raider Grad on Jun 7, 2009 20:07:22 GMT -5
Blitz. Pay attention to the discussion. We have been talking about our schedule and how it will affect attendance. The fans we are discussing are ones that come out to the Nutter Center. That is the context of my comments. Fans that sit on their asses at home and watch games online are not part of the equation. I am only talking about the 5,000+ fans that come out to the Nutter Center. People that attend games are either diehards that attend regularly or casual fans that attend infrequently. Most of WSU's fans are casual fans that attend infrequently.
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Post by Raider Alumni on Jun 7, 2009 20:33:10 GMT -5
Can you guys take your discussion about die hard fans vs casual fans to a separate thread or better yet continue it in PMs? This thread is supposed to be about our schedule next year.
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Post by Fastbreak on Jun 7, 2009 21:27:39 GMT -5
I assume Maryland Eastern Shore is replacing Norfolk St on the schedule as a buy game.
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Post by riceownz2 on Jun 8, 2009 18:54:37 GMT -5
WSU pays for teams to come to us? Either way. Maryland Eastern Shore or Norfolk St stinks as home games. But a win is a win right lol? Maybe we can "sort" of do like Green Bay and Cleveland State. Win against crappy teams and get our confidence up. I think winning is better then loosing to good teams. IMO
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Post by Class of '83 on Jun 13, 2009 9:27:09 GMT -5
WSU pays for teams to come to us? Either way. Maryland Eastern Shore or Norfolk St stinks as home games. But a win is a win right lol? Maybe we can "sort" of do like Green Bay and Cleveland State. Win against crappy teams and get our confidence up. I think winning is better then loosing to good teams. IMO Beating up cupcakes won't make us better for league play or prepare us for post season play. I'd rather play and loose to good competition than to fake our way to a good record.
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Post by wolf41 on Jun 13, 2009 12:07:45 GMT -5
I think the staff has been improving our schedule. Our first 3 games will be no cake walk versus Washington and Portland. And Belmont will be no slouch. We could take it on the chin three straight times out there. I'm hoping to be at least 2-1 upon our return. If MES ends up being a cake walk for us, I have no objection to one game like that. Virtually every team has games like that, and some even feast on such teams. Let's just play them as they come and hope for the best.
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Post by Glory Days on Jun 13, 2009 12:17:11 GMT -5
My only argument with that is we played a very similar schedule last year Wolf. I don't want to be sitting at home this March thinking about what could have been if we played a better schedule. I don't think we can put together a good enough schedule for an NCAA at large bid, but I think we could have put together a good enough schedule to get an NIT invite. I don't like putting all of our eggs in one basket and hope we win the HL tournament in order to go to the post season.
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Post by OG Raiderfan on Jun 15, 2009 20:12:50 GMT -5
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Post by Jazzfan on Jun 16, 2009 8:47:46 GMT -5
We really need a home run with this last game. I hope we can get this done quickly. I don't want to get stuck with a High Point type team.
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Post by Jazzfan on Jun 22, 2009 19:47:27 GMT -5
Watch out for Washington June 22, 2009 By Seth Davis Washington coach Lorenzo Romar, who was part of the five-man committee that selected the two squads, tried to sell me on the idea of Cal as the preseason favorite to win the Pac-10. I wasn't buying it. Yes, Romar's Huskies lost two valuable seniors in shooting guard Justin Dentmon and rebounding machine Jon Brockman, but they return two of the most exciting young players in sophomore guards Venoy Overton and Isaiah Thomas. More important, they are bringing in one of the five best freshmen in the country in Abdul Gaddy, a 6-foot-3 point guard from Tacoma, Wash., who backed out of his commitment to Arizona after Lute Olson retired. It is fitting that Gaddy originally opted for Arizona, because his game reminds me a lot Mike Bibby's. "He's as pure a point guard as we've had," Romar said. "He really understands how to run a team, but if things aren't going well he has the ability to score, too." Romar also told me that Gaddy is still 17 years old and won't turn 18 until early 2010. That means he can't enter the NBA draft after his freshman year because he will not have satisfied the league's 19-year-old age minimum. Just the fact that Romar saw fit to mention that should let you know how good the kid is. As for the question of how Gaddy and Thomas will co-exist in the same backcourt, Romar reminded me that he has had that situation before with Nate Robinson and Brandon Roy. I've always thought utilizing two or even three scoring point guards was a great way to play. Remember the Illinois perimeter trio of Dee Brown, Deron Williams and Luther Head that lost to North Carolina in the 2005 NCAA championship game? Or the Bibby-Miles Simon tandem that won a title at Arizona in 1997? The Gaddy-Thomas combination should be especially effective at Washington because Romar likes to play at such a fast pace. I can't wait to see them in action. As for the frontcourt, Washington has some decent returning talent in Darnell Gant, Justin Holiday, Quincy Pondexter and Matthew Bryan-Amaning, but Romar sounded excited about a newcomer I had not previously heard of: Tyreese Breshers, a 6-7, 255-pound power forward who redshirted as a freshman last season because of a broken shin bone. Romar said that Breshers is extremely quick and mobile for his size, even comparing him to former Pittsburgh center DeJuan Blair. "We have some really good pieces, and we have some depth," Romar said. "If we understand the commitment required, we could be really good." sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/seth_davis/06/22/colorado/index.html?eref=T1
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Post by Jazzfan on Jul 8, 2009 6:49:09 GMT -5
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Post by motowntitan on Jul 8, 2009 16:02:32 GMT -5
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Post by Raider Grad on Jul 8, 2009 19:45:50 GMT -5
We really need a to finish out the schedule with a good team.
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