Mark Schlemer's comments about WSU

[rock70]

Check out Mark Schlemmer's comments about WSU. Unfortunately I have to agree with a lot of what he says. I listen to Mark's show fairly regularly ( 980 WONE ) and he really does support Wright State but he will also tell it like it is................

Below are two seperate entries from his blog:

Hats Off To Chris Collins
Saturday 01-01-2011 6:41pm ET
After listening to The Wright State game today I have to shake my head and tip my hat to Chris Collins, The Voice of Wright State...He has been doing WSU games for 13 years but none could have been as challenging as this one so far. Yes Chris is a good friend of mine but that being said, if he was a total stranger I would still write the same thing The challenge isn't because the team is bad or having a tough season but because every game Chris has to work with or break in a new analyst..or Star Search as I call it. Yes Grote and Wampler have done games before but to switch up every game is not only difficult but down right ridiculous. This is Division One not The Dayton Public School Channel or IBC School for radio and TV...At times Collins has to work alone which is tough but he handles it like the pro he is..In fact every game no matter what he's given he handles it like Vin Scully...Why WSU rotates people most that have never done radio or a game before is baffling at best..Is it money? Who knows..all I know is it is one more reason people scoff at WSU being a bigtime program...I have tried my best to rally behind Wright State and have been called a WSU Homer but as always, no matter what team it is I must call it like I see it...For me and most fans the radio and TV voices are the face of the program..Marty and Joe,, Larry and Bucky and so on...Come on WSU give the guy a break and help him out...You ask any radio play-by-play guy and they will tell you just how hard it is to work with a new partner but Chris won't complain...he just does his job with pride and passion..and to be honest..Basketball may not even be his best sport..Baseball is...No matter, I just want to say what most fans say...Thank you Chris for the job you do.....keep up the good work.

www.wone.com/pages/onair_onthemark.html

WSU Fans Should Be Embarrassed
Back to whipping a dead horse to start the new year but come on Wright State Fans and Alumni...enough weak ass excuses...enough of the arena stinks talk and WSU is a commuter school...WSU is a D-I Basketball Program that has won 20 or more games 4 straight years and is playing well again this year but you don't show up...Thursday Night against UW-Milwaukee, a League game only 3700 and change showed up..Really? That is pathetic and please...spare me the students are gone crap..you already say it's a commuter school so what's the difference? If this team sucked and lost like The Bengals I'd understand staying away but they don't..You have a first class Radio Voice, a first class Coach and players that play their butts off plus you have a big clean 10,000 seat place to play....Folks it is time you and The Brass at Wright State come to a meeting of the minds and get this joke figured out. It's time AD Bob Grant and his staff gather a group of former players, alumni and fans that have dumped their tickets plus maybe some media types and current students to The Nutter Center to at least ask and find out why people avoid games...They need to also include some corporate sponsors that already are part of the program and some that are not....Maybe it's something The Staff and school could be doing better..if it is it's time to fix the problem..and again please don't tell me how 3900 fans stack up against Miami or The Horizon League...Dayton Ohio puts 8-9000 fans in a game between nobodys so that dribble won't flush anymore...There are reasons and it's time to find out what they are...Wake up Wright State and do the right thing...The Ship is taking on water....and the passengers keep jumping off.

[WSUMM]

+1

[Raider Country]

I have never heard of Mark Schlemmer before. Maybe it's because he is on 980 and maybe that is one of the problems WSU should deal with. We need to get on a better radio channel than 980 if we want anyone to listen.

[Raider Rowdies]

I like the rotating announcers for games.

[wsu97]

Attendance is down for several reasons:
-The team isn't as good as last year. We were picked to finish 2nd last year and 6th this year.
-The schedule isn't very good and some of our game times have been odd like yesterday.
-Ticket prices went up this year and the family fun zone's size was decreased.
-The economy is in the crapper and people are being more selective with their entertainment.
-The Nutter Center isn't very fan friendly: ticket office sucks, the parking sucks, the timeout entertainment is lame, half time entertainment is lame, etc

[Nutt House]

I think ticket prices is the number one reason.

[Raider4Life]

WSU should hire Wampler to work with Collins full time. They are great together.

[Wolf]

Get rid of the guys we hired from the bombers. They are an embarrassment.

[Jazzfan]

Jan 2, 2011 9:10:41 GMT -5 Wolf said:

Get rid of the guys we hired from the bombers. They are an embarrassment.

+1

[Rush the Court]

Jan 2, 2011 9:15:31 GMT -5 Jazzfan said:

Jan 2, 2011 9:10:41 GMT -5 Wolf said:

Get rid of the guys we hired from the bombers. They are an embarrassment.

+1

+2. Take that kids mic away.

[Bomber]

Jan 2, 2011 9:07:23 GMT -5 Raider4Life said:

WSU should hire Wampler to work with Collins full time. They are great together.

I really like them together too. Grote is horrible. He studders his way through every broadcast.

[Sixth Man]

Jan 2, 2011 0:19:20 GMT -5 rock70 said:

WSU Fans Should Be Embarrassed
Back to whipping a dead horse to start the new year but come on Wright State Fans and Alumni...enough weak ass excuses...enough of the arena stinks talk and WSU is a commuter school...WSU is a D-I Basketball Program that has won 20 or more games 4 straight years and is playing well again this year but you don't show up...Thursday Night against UW-Milwaukee, a League game only 3700 and change showed up..Really? That is pathetic and please...spare me the students are gone crap..you already say it's a commuter school so what's the difference? If this team sucked and lost like The Bengals I'd understand staying away but they don't..You have a first class Radio Voice, a first class Coach and players that play their butts off plus you have a big clean 10,000 seat place to play....Folks it is time you and The Brass at Wright State come to a meeting of the minds and get this joke figured out. It's time AD Bob Grant and his staff gather a group of former players, alumni and fans that have dumped their tickets plus maybe some media types and current students to The Nutter Center to at least ask and find out why people avoid games...They need to also include some corporate sponsors that already are part of the program and some that are not....Maybe it's something The Staff and school could be doing better..if it is it's time to fix the problem..and again please don't tell me how 3900 fans stack up against Miami or The Horizon League...Dayton Ohio puts 8-9000 fans in a game between nobodys so that dribble won't flush anymore...There are reasons and it's time to find out what they are...Wake up Wright State and do the right thing...The Ship is taking on water....and the passengers keep jumping off.

Typical radio douche. A whole lot of complaining, but no ideas for a solution to the problem.

[hhgreen]

The ticket prices are a little high but I still make it out to the games. I mean if I take my family of 4 out there it is costing me 68.00 to get in the door not to mention when I spend about 30.00 for hot dogs, popcorn and a drink. I also don't buy dip n dots anymore since the price is 5.00. I think 98.00 a game and then sometimes twice a week puts a dent in the pocketbook.

Tickets for regular admission should be no more than 12.00 and increase the size of the funzone tickets and lower the price back down to 7.00 where it used to be and let them buy those tickets at anytime instead of just on game day. The economy right now the way it is, people are not going to come out with prices at 17.00 a ticket. Do you buy gas and food or go to a Raiders game? For a lot of people that is the choice these days.

If you do a promotional once in a while it probably won't help much at all. If you give free tickets out one game it will not entice people to pay 17.00 for one ticket later and become loyal fans all at once. Winning does help and getting some bigger teams out here at the Nutter would help as well. Maybe we should try for that Northwestern or Penn St. team to come out. How much would it take to get a Northwestern or a DePaul to come and play here? We did sucessfully get Cinci in for a 2 for 1 deal.


I don't mind the hokey crap during timeouts but I wish the cheer squads would get up in the stands more and get the fans in a coordinated chant every now and then.

[CincyDrummer]

Can anyone (perhaps a season ticket holder or something) get a reasonable answer from Bob Grote as to WHY the ticket prices went up?? I know we've discussed this many times, but I've yet to read an answer from anyone really that justifies that ticket prices. If it weren't for my 2 free student tickets I'd probably be HLNing every game I could

[WSUMM]

So much of what's being said here is interesting. You call this Schlemer guy a douce, but he wasn't really saying anything different than you have been saying.

Ticket prices are probably the number one issue, I remember my first college basketball experiences were with my family and I don't think we could've afforded it at 17 bucks a game or would've made the effort. The love of the game starts with young kids looking up to our boys and girls and parents explaining the game to them when they aren't running around high fiving Rowdy.

I don't think scheduling or winning is a big part of it. Only one game has been at 1PM the rest of the games have been on Saturdays at 2 or 7 at night, not exactly a crazy time to play ball.


Winning only matters to the people who are following it closely. I doubt many WSU students would tell you they're not coming because of the team's record(or where they were placed by a preseason prediction) they'll say "What? We have a basketball team? I thought we were supposed to cheer for THE Ohio State!"(which I'm sick of, my undergrad degree is from a school in IL and I'm sick of hearing about the Illini too) I know of at least two RAs who are at (almost) every game. Get your dorms involved, help your other RAs understand. Education at a university doesn't just come from the professors...

I've weighed in the TO stuff enough, but where does this Bombers thing come from anyway? Josh, Drew, and Whitney are WSU students. If you concerned with people higher up than them, do your research you can find bios on the wsuraiders.com site.

Same things over and over get more students at the games, which will happen by a couple guys going hey come to the game, it's free and fun! It's a trickle down effect. Get the spirit units more involved(which I'm starting to think isn't what the students want at all. The cheerleaders cheer and they start another, that's usually crude, right over the top of them.)

The radio guy is just amplified, but he's saying the same thing you've been saying, at least since I found my way to the forum.

Here's to a good road trip in Chi-Town! Go Raiders!