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Post by Black PantherU on Sept 25, 2010 10:27:55 GMT -5
Anyways, for next season your team should schedule our club football team.
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Post by Black PantherU on Aug 26, 2010 15:16:49 GMT -5
i am thinking more of recent program success. i would put them behind us, butler and csu for sure. not really thinking of lifestyle etc. If you're going for recent program success, they're also behind Milwaukee, Valparaiso, Green Bay and Detroit. They haven't been relevant for several years. However, the university has many, many advantages. It is walking distance from downtown Chicago, is in a fantastically eclectic neighborhood. It's the second-largest university in the conference, which is an advantage one can't take for granted when considering the amount of money student athletic fees bring in. This allows them to pay great money. Tracy Dildy was making more than Jerry Slocum and close to Tod Kowalczyk last season if I'm not mistaken, as an associate head coach. The academics at UIC, particularly the largest medical school in the nation, are a draw to student-athletes. I will say this about UIC athletics, something to pay attention to: they announced the addition of women's golf this summer, which adds women's scholarships to an already equitable situation. Why take on the additional money? Word that I've been getting from UIC people I know is that there is pressure to bring back one of two sports that it cut over 20 years ago: football or hockey. Hockey was a particularly successful program, competing in the CCHA before being cut in 1996. Football was cut in 1973, and played games around the area. UWM's library has a picture album from a game between UIC and UWM played at Soldier Field. My guess would be hockey; they were never very competitive in football, and there is no shortage of college football in Chicago. Hockey, on the other hand, would be the only college team in the city, and the timing won't get better anytime soon coming off a Blackhawks Stanley Cup victory. If they continue to add women's sports to add a revenue sport, I'm guessing that basketball will lose resources, which would diminish their advantage of money.
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Post by Black PantherU on Aug 20, 2010 18:44:16 GMT -5
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Post by Black PantherU on Aug 14, 2010 15:18:32 GMT -5
It just looks like they're getting no experience from this trip. What's the use loading up on teams that are, what, the 20th rung of professional basketball?
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Post by Black PantherU on Aug 12, 2010 1:30:51 GMT -5
The athletics program will still use, primarily, the logo at the top of our board.
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Post by Black PantherU on Aug 12, 2010 1:29:01 GMT -5
WSU was one of our more difficult games last season in conference; you guys are headed in the right direction.
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Post by Black PantherU on Jul 21, 2010 1:48:29 GMT -5
Tracy Webster is the name that keeps coming up in discussion at our site too.
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Post by Black PantherU on Jul 12, 2010 19:16:17 GMT -5
Thanks for deleting my post; yes, it came a day after the thread on the UIC board, but I did the whole journalistic thing and got multiple sources to confirm it.
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Post by Black PantherU on Jun 26, 2010 11:56:45 GMT -5
I knew I wasn't crazy. I posed the same question to Valpo fans on their board and they practically killed me for it, and attacked our team's character (Milwaukee): valpofans.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=valposports&action=display&thread=4175&page=4As for our problems which are above and I thought I should shed light from the program on, the Journal-Sentinel's article had nothing new in it, it was in our minds a simple attempt to smack us down for the good of Marquette. I'm sure you guys experience the same favoritism from local media towards Dayton, so you'll understand. It was their answer to Rob Demovsky's GB Press-Gazette report on the state of the Phoenix athletic department, which got a lot of praise from people all over Wisconsin. His article was great, the JS' was dogshit. We do have a large budget deficit, which is tied very closely to the men's basketball arena. Since 03-04, we've played exclusively at the U.S. Cellular Arena downtown, about 3 miles south of campus and a 15-minute bus ride through the East Side. Our lease is for 6 figures a year; we fans don't know the exact number, but we've heard as little as 250,000 and as much as 500,000 that we pay the Wisconsin Center District that owns the Cell. The WCD spends most of its money into the Milwaukee Theater, which they built fairly recently and can't get crap for acts because the fact of the matter is we have several similar-size facilities in the city that get acts first. This is money that could be going into updating the Cell, as they promised us, but no. So we go half a million in the hole immediately, then pay $3 off of EVERY TICKET we sell to the WCD. For a $10 ticket, we only make seven bucks. It's infuriating. Plus, with all the revenue lost for parking, concessions, merchandise (that the bookstore makes, a travesty in itself) and money we COULD be making by having our own facility on-campus, we're in the situation we're in. If the Journal-Sentinel article were any good, it would have highlighted the problem: build the arena, fix the deficit. Kind of like Save the Cheerleader, Save the World. Fortunately, we students recognized the problems financially as well as physically getting hundreds of students down there. We voted in a $25 fee to build an arena for men's basketball on campus. That's $25 per student, per semester at 32,000 students for the next 25 years. For you math whizzes out there, if we don't increase our size (we're not decreasing ever), that's $40 million just from the students toward the arena. The UW Board of Regents approved it a couple weeks ago, so it starts in fall. Our athletics development office (ONE PERSON) is setting things up for the lead gift campaign right now. The hope is to raise enough money to build a 6,000 seat arena that can be expanded to 8,000 and completely blow away every basketball arena in the state, including the homes of the Phoenix, Bucks, Golden Eagles, and Badgers. Of course, I can't confirm the plans themselves, just the money students are paying
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Post by Black PantherU on Jun 25, 2010 1:56:29 GMT -5
It's been a thorn in my ass as well as many of our fans that we have scheduled D-II teams as regular-season opponents in the past. Last year was the culmination, with two D-II schools appearing as regular season foes, Concordia-St. Paul and Hillsdale.
The fans made their feelings known by staying away from the games, which each brought in just over 2,000; both less than the exhibition games (albeit the exh. games were against SE Wisconsin schools).
I am relieved to say that part of our scheduling is history. Not only do we have no D-II schools on our regular-season docket, but we refrained from scheduling low-majors as well outside of a tournament at Portland that features two low-majors, UC Davis and Florida Atlantic.
Our schedule isn't finalized, but my inside sources have said they "doubt we'll have D-II schools very much" on the schedule.
This is a big step, guys. As Fastbreak said, you're one of the only teams that doesn't engage in scheduling D-II schools.
Personally, I would like Jim Whitesell at Loyola and Jerry Slocum at YSU also drop the D-II schools and get with the program. The Horizon League needs to boost the level of competition it plays in the non-conference schedule if we're ever going to be a perennial multi-bid league. Either that or start winning those high-major games (the WSU-Washington game comes to mind as a close one).
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Post by Black PantherU on Feb 11, 2010 19:44:14 GMT -5
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Post by Black PantherU on Feb 11, 2010 19:24:45 GMT -5
Believe me, we're psyched to have him, we just have to deal with his knee problems, which are a given when you're a big guy.
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Post by Black PantherU on Feb 11, 2010 19:18:34 GMT -5
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Post by Black PantherU on Dec 7, 2008 0:44:42 GMT -5
That "Fat Ass" made your team look fairly pedestrian today. I think I shot better than most of the Raiders when I did the second half shooting promo today in my Mike Bendall jersey.
Just had to get a jab in for calling a friend of mine "fat ass." In all fairness though, I had a very nice short conversation with coach Brownell about the team.
Your team is a lot better than 0-6, and when Vaughn Duggins is back, you're still a dangerous team. I don't know about second, since it looks to me like Butler and CSU are the top tier and then right behind them is UIC, but you guys do have a good enough team to finish 4th.
We were definitely on them with about half our usual student section, but after the game we gave the WSU players the high fives and compliments they deserve. Wright State is still one of the better teams in the conference; I have no doubt that you will be back on your feet.
I mean, yes, you're 0-6. But your best player is out, you're missing 2 others. And even so, it's not like you guys are Youngstown State or anything.
Don't get too down on yourselves. You almost beat us here, and I have no doubt that you'll be heavy favorites when we come to Dayton.
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Post by Black PantherU on Jan 4, 2008 19:11:34 GMT -5
At the game...don't get so down on yourselves, you're the best team we've beaten all year. The fact is that WSU has some sort of mental block about Milwaukee, kind of like Hitler and Napoleon had with Russia I think I can provide a reasonable explanation for what happened to us. Addition by subtraction: we lost 5 players from the roster this season, all of whom were not 100% behind Jeter and the program. Gentry's mind was on his newborn daughter in Iowa, KJ and Flowers with their crew in Chicago, Smith on his own agenda (aka didn't like not starting), and Johnson made a bad mistake. The 11 players who are left are 100% Jeter's men. They're 100% Panthers, and they buy into his program, his philosophy, his style, and the black and gold. The 5 who are gone have been replaced by nothing but selfless players who give their all to the team, players like Jason Averkamp and Anthony Hill. You have to take coach Brownell at his word that preparing for a team like, with so much turnover in the past few weeks, this is tough. One of the things that Jeter has pounded into his players' heads since the defections is that we have to make the U.S. Cellular Arena, the Cell, the MECCA, whatever you want to call it, a fortress. He wants a home court advantage that is as successful as the Kohl Center is for Wisconsin...since Bo Ryan took the job in 01-02, he's lost 6 or 7 games at home. That's an eye-popper. If we can get a home court advantage like that, look out. One mid-major home court that we like? The Nutter Center. You guys OWN Butler at your place, which I'm 100% sure you know. We want to own everyone at our place. I mean hell, we were much worse last year and we beat you at the Cell. And Butler was 14th in the nation when they came here during winter break last year, and we only lost to them by 5 on closing-second free throws. Don't fret...we're still nervous about playing at your house. Side note: One of you mentioned that WSU had 2 true freshmen on the bench...Roberts and Hill (29 and 6 min, respectively) are true freshmen, Swiggett (20) missed most of his freshmen season last year with injury, and there is only one player on the roster (Al Hanson) who logged minutes during our NCAA round of 32 year in 05-06.
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