Bufflao

[hammb]

Has anyone ever been to a hs game at Margaret’ta. If I remember correctly the seats were full by jv. The answer is simple to getting a full stadium. Attachment. Make it an event where you are seeing your friends and neighbors from bg and the surrounding counties. What’s not simple is how to create that attachment.

people generally do this at the HS level...not so much at the university level in BG

They need to win at home 90% of the time and win on the road more than they have..... It is fairly well understood in the community the athletic dept.has decommitted to men's basketball -- thus the apathy.

Ding ding ding. The department has basically said they don't care about the program, so nobody else does either. We have nearly 20 years of alumni who don't even realize BG has ever been a factor in MAC play let alone more.

Anecdotally,my grandparents had season tickets since the 60s. My grandfather finally stopped buying them sometime in the mid 2000s since he said it just made him angry. Since he's passed away Grandma gets tickets again but she just likes to go, isn't as upset that the product on the floor is bad.

The athletic department has content to let our hoops program wallow in mediocrity for 15+ seasons. I don't even know why I still care...seems a fruitless endeavor. My most enjoyable basketball moments nowadays are watching my 3 year old run up and down the court.

[guest44]

Meanwhile, Chris Jans is 32-7 at New Mexico St.

[hammb]

Meanwhile, Chris Jans is 32-7 at New Mexico St.

He was a great coach. I don't regret for one second that we moved on from him. I regret that Kingston wasn't willing to do the due diligence to find another similar candidate.

[guest44]

I agree. Then to make matters worse, just hand Huger the same contract it took to land Jans. It’s funny to look back at the candidates and people rumored to be candidates. Current coaches at Butler and Wisconsin if I’m not mistaken.

[Globetrotter]

I wonder if the lackluster coaching hire for the football team will have potential donors for Hugers buyout questioning if it's worth it. He might be great but there are certainly questions and it's not a very exciting hire.

[Flipper]

Really? I think it's a great hire...getting a guy with his resume and connections would have had people turning cartwheels a few years ago. I think he gives the program instant credibility at a time when it's just about vanished thanks to Jinks and Co.

Re Huger...we had hopes that he had learned a lot under Larranaga. It appears he did not.

Re OU..most of us will remember the "Baby Shaq" Gary Trent hype train, but before that...in the 70's...there was Walter Luckett

https://www.amazon.com/Walter-Luckett-U ... B01GCB7VGQ" target="_blank

That is a BAD ASS Bobcat logo on the court

[Globetrotter]

Really? I think it's a great hire...getting a guy with his resume and connections would have had people turning cartwheels a few years ago. I think he gives the program instant credibility at a time when it's just about vanished thanks to Jinks and Co.

Re Huger...we had hopes that he had learned a lot under Larranaga. It appears he did not.

Re OU..most of us will remember the "Baby Shaq" Gary Trent hype train, but before that...in the 70's...there was Walter Luckett

https://www.amazon.com/Walter-Luckett-U ... B01GCB7VGQ" target="_blank

That is a BAD ASS Bobcat logo on the court

The OC from a bad offense of a middle of the road team?

[Flipper]

Bad offense? There's a lot of excitement about Purdue's offense...they score 32 pts a game. So does BC. But that's unimportant because we didn't hire him to be an OC...we hired him to be a HC. HC success often comes down to two things...hiring really good assistants and recruiting. He has a lot of connections and a lot of very good HC are singing his praises...I'm excited to see what kind of staff he compiles and how he does with a full year of recruiting

[zete]

I think OHIO set the all time MAC vs MAC attendance record in a game vs BG in the Convo during those years. Something like 15k. I had HS friends that piled into a car and made the trip down and said it was a mad house on an atmosphere.

[Globetrotter]

Bad offense? There's a lot of excitement about Purdue's offense...they score 32 pts a game. So does BC. But that's unimportant because we didn't hire him to be an OC...we hired him to be a HC. HC success often comes down to two things...hiring really good assistants and recruiting. He has a lot of connections and a lot of very good HC are singing his praises...I'm excited to see what kind of staff he compiles and how he does with a full year of recruiting

What’s his connection to Purdue?

[Flipper]

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the act or instance of comparing.
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[Schadenfreude]

It is fairly well understood in the community the athletic dept.has decommitted to men's basketball -- thus the apathy.

The Bill Frack fund and the brand new $30 million basketball facility send this message very clearly.

[Class of 61]

I wonder if the lackluster coaching hire for the football team will have potential donors for Hugers buyout questioning if it's worth it. He might be great but there are certainly questions and it's not a very exciting hire.

Globe,
Exactly WHY is Loeffler a lackluster hire? He’s had years of experience under many big time coaches. I’m assuming that he’s learned a few things in that time about the job of a head coach.
What did we know about Urban Meyer when he was named head coach? He was a WR coach at ND, and he seemed to work out OK. Let’s see how his new staff is created and how his new staff can recruit.
Funny that there’s so much negative feelings being expressed instead of legitimate questions.

[zete]

It is fairly well understood in the community the athletic dept.has decommitted to men's basketball -- thus the apathy.

The Bill Frack fund and the brand new $30 million basketball facility send this message very clearly.

Yea, well, things ain't goin' so good.

[hammb]

It is fairly well understood in the community the athletic dept.has decommitted to men's basketball -- thus the apathy.

The Bill Frack fund and the brand new $30 million basketball facility send this message very clearly.

Yea, well, things ain't goin' so good.

If we didn't know about the Frack money you'd be hard-pressed to identify anything worthwhile that the money has been put towards (as an outsider).

The stroh certainly showed a commitment to the sport, but was as much a general use facility for the University as anything.

Since the Jans fiasco you'd be hard pressed to argue the University has displayed a commitment to excellence. Mediocre schedules, failure to use all scholarships, and a lackluster coach search/hire.