Well, I guess I'll just have to take your word that you're smarter than analytics. Maybe Pedon should reach out about the open assistant position? They've won two games this calendar year. Might want to brush up on dates before hitting the road recruiting.
Last I checked it was 4.
$7.40 was upper bowl, if I’m not mistaken. So if you figure $15-20 for lower bowl, another 100 fans is a nice chunk of change. Both are paid off, but the reserve funds any/all the $1.25 million (combinEd) came from need to be repaid.
Barb Smith???? Thank God she’s gone.
Maybe its that he's playing the guys he wants to keep.The end of the bench are all Muller guys who stayed. He plays walkon guards more than the scholarship posts, rewarding their skin in the game. Great guys to have hanging around at practice
He needs to develop a base he can work with consistently IMHO. And he's starting with his guys, Mayor McCheese and Lewis. Losing players to the portal is a given, but i pray the days of 7 moving on year after year are over. If he can get to where we have 7 or 8 returnees each year (barring the odd 4-5 seniors years) we can maybe start moving the program forward.
However you do the accounting, the bigger issue is probably at what point the donor class asks themselves how much they prize their lower bowl view, versus buying the best view in the house (in my opinion) in Section 238/Formerly TT for a fraction of the cost.
Agree. I've heard from people over the years who have dropped their donation for this exact reason. When they switched everything around last year I asked the ticket office about some of this and was told we have the fewest season ticket holders we've ever had. I'm not sure tweeting promo codes for anyone and everyone and visiting teams to use at a steep discount is the best business practice. It would be like continually saying you have $3 calzones because you panic - why would someone buy a full price calzone later? They'd just wait for the $3. With the combination of not printing tickets and misprinting and increasing donations and discounting tickets it feels like just admitting nothing works or everything works or we just don't really know what to do.
So Wardle had a great track record as a head coach at Green Bay? In 5 seasons he made a CBI and 2 NIT appearances and one of those appearances he got beat by Dan Muller and ISU. AT Bradley in his 8th year he is finally finishing in the top 4 of the conference for the 2nd time and has a career record at Bradley of 127-123. He got hot for 1 weekend, if not for that what would he be? 4 games over .500 in 8 years doesn't speak great coaching record. He's still under .500 in MVC games being 66-74.
Not sure when I used the word "great" for track record. I'm pretty confident I used the word "proven" which is a drastic difference. Based on resource allocation and budget, Green Bay is one of the worst head coaching jobs in the Midwest and in the Horizon League. Brian Wardle had more wins in consecutive seasons than any coach has had there in the last 20 years. I would say that is proven. You can dismiss making the NIT, but it is something we as a program struggle to do annually. If you'd like to remove making the NCAA tournament in back-to-back years to measure his success at Bradley, that is how you're viewing it. If not for the NCAA tournaments, you're right. He is way worse. But... they happened. "Getting hot for one weekend" is one way of framing it. It's just how you view it. I view it differently. That's okay.
Maybe he is running what he wants, or trying to.
I've never asked him what he wants. Coach speak doesn't tend to lend to facts very often when in front of a microphone. "Were going to play fast" is a story I've heard from coaches that gave us slow paced play. But I'm going to assume he's not winging it and is trying to execute a plan. People tend to think coaches are geniuses or idiots, I tend to look from middle ground most times. What we are running seems to work well some games, and like crap others. Execution lacks more in the games it doesn't. Most of the starters look like guys who will be named to an All Team one night and disappear the next. And generally our lack of a true PG allows defenses to throw us off what we plan to do if they pressure the perimeter. Every guard on the team plus Kazooski has had a shot at running the point at some time during the first several games, then he settled in on best available.This is why I suggested Brick come back for the possible ass’t coaching position. However, I am riding a dead horse. Brick prefers warm weather and sand traps over cold snowy and barren this time of year cornfields.Leave it to Coach for a breakdown. Brickers you should be on TV cause in a 20 second spill you laid it out. That's exactly what happens. We frequently double-whammy it by the slow enter into offense...we back out...4 sweet 'lil 'Birds hanging on perimeter perch...sometimes 5 FT line beyond. All of which, at this point, is no surprise to our opponents. Surprise us all by grabbing consecutive wins these last 2 weeks, boys.
Dude sounds like a weirdie.
Honestly I expect Pence to carve out a nitch/minutes before JK. Ty’s size alone will help out on the boards which is needed as well. I think he has a good offensive game but as you say it’s a different monster on this level. I can see see JK spelling Mal or DB at the one sliding Mal over to the 2 spot. Now if he can spell DB at the 1 and leave Mal at the 2 it’s a whole new ball game with Luke or Ty at the 3. It’s gonna be an interesting offseason for sure.
I think we’ll see how it shakes out next year. We really don’t know what they’re capable of at this point. Nobody thought a late spring signing would be a starter from day one and go on to be a 4-yr starter, score well over 1000 pts, be named 2-time DPOY, and be all-conference player. But that’s what Dan Muller did.
Expectations are a crazy thing. The kid himself have more to say about them anyway.
No doubt, Birdie. Ya gotta give me this, though. This board is notorious for overestimating a newcomer's impact, particularly freshman.