Tpguy
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They let you park your 1960 Edsel ?Bastards built it right on top of the $2 lot I used to park for the weekend
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Unpopular opinion. Time for Ben to go.
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Idk if it’s time to go, but time for him to do some painful analysis and change approach. He hasn’t really used the portal and it shows.
Coach Jake is doing what he can to keep his "traditional" college basketball team together. He wants to build with freshman and rarely supplement with transfers and Jucos. If Heise and Phyfe were healthy, they are probably winning a lot more of these games.
Their official roster lists seven freshmen, four sophomores, two RS sophomores, one jr, and one rs senior. Though, they acting like the covid season didn't happen at all and guys like Borne, who is in his third season, is listed as a sophomore (he has two years of eligibility after this one).
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They should just have it in Fargo, then NDSU would never have to travel. Although I believe many of their fans have purchased vacation homes in Frisco (I thought it sounded like a foolish investment, but I guess I was wrong. Been there 9 out of 12 years) They don't call it Fargo South for nothing!
There are some in the Terre Haute area that would probably argue for their trees having the most impressive start despite dropping the game to USI. Cooper Neese has been all over twitter imploring people to head to the Hulman Center. He even had this interesting exchange with a fan today:
I don't know if I've ever seen a player respectfully engage with fans like that after being challenged on social. Most, rightfully, ignore it and don't respond. But in this case, Neese did a very nice job. Good for him.
Yeah, it was certainly an interesting exchange. Honestly, kind of nice to see when usually it's just someone clapping back to "ratio" someone else. Neese kind of speaks to what a lot of fans speak to about Redbird Arena. How do we fill it back up? The answer is simple. win at a really high rate for a sustained period. Make it the place to be. Of course, that's way easier said than done in today's transfer landscape.
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Murray State getting hammered pretty hard at home by Chicago State right now.
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They crawled almost all the way back from 22 down. Down three with four and a half left, let's see if they can complete the comeback and win.
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Took the lead with 9 seconds left and won.
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Iowa last year. I think Michigan did it back to back years. One of those years their plane slid off the runway and they played in their practice gear.
Watched nearly this entire game. Chicago St. built their lead running sets. Then in the 2nd half they went on a solid stretch of hero ball and never really got their footing back. Choked away a massive lead and then gave up an uncontested layup in a halfcourt set with 9 seconds to go. It was ridiculous how terrible that final basket was. They are now 3-0 at home and 0-9 on the road. One of those 3 wins was over Valpo. The guy they really need to hold down is Weaver and Jean-Charles was the guy getting the sneaky try hard points last night but not sure if he's a game in game out guy.
Interesting exchange with Neese and the fan. Good for him for keeping a level head.
Unfortunately, the reality is NOBODY in the Valley is drawing right now. In glancing at box scores for every team, only SIU and Murray St. have drawn more than 5K for a game - once. Every team is in the 1-4K range. I'd guess those numbers will rise as conference play rolls on, but for right now, attendance is down everywhere in the league.
Unfortunately, the reality is NOBODY in the Valley is drawing right now. In glancing at box scores for every team, only SIU and Murray St. have drawn more than 5K for a game - once. Every team is in the 1-4K range. I'd guess those numbers will rise as conference play rolls on, but for right now, attendance is down everywhere in the league.
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I mean someone posted the opening night attendance numbers for the Valley games. I don't think any one broke 5k?
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BirdGrad2011
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I thought Murray did. I could be wrong, but I know they led MVC in attendance for game 1.
They did. SIU had 5200 in their home opener vs. Little Rock. Murray St had 5471 against us, which is the highest attended game by anyone so far in the Valley. We have drawing power in other venues!
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To be fair. Not many good home opponents. It’s hard to get up for Chicago State, Northwestern State, WIU, etc.They did. SIU had 5200 in their home opener vs. Little Rock. Murray St had 5471 against us, which is the highest attended game by anyone so far in the Valley. We have drawing power in other venues!