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Bradley completes schedule

LittleBrave said:
I think Detroit could be like the 2009 version of the Catamounts from Western Carolina. Better not take them lightly.

We should be a little deeper this season that last (provided everyone is healthy), which we need for 2 different back-to-back games in the non-conf. portion of the season.
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We lost to Loyola at home last year...we can't afford to take ANYONE lightly. Other than Utah, all I'm saying is there are no marquee or top 75 games in the RPI on our home slate and that will have an effect at the end if we trip up along the way.
 
Looked at all of these threads...Obviously its exciting to get "names" in but....

Said it forever...

The key is a strong RPI.

If BU gets to that in the end then thats all that will matter to me.

24-6 and looking like ISU recently, isn't going to mean much to me, unless we are top 2 of the league.

I say let it play out....

It seems to me with all these senior guards that its NCAA or bust.
 
srw said:
Looked at all of these threads...Obviously its exciting to get "names" in but....

Said it forever...

The key is a strong RPI.

If BU gets to that in the end then thats all that will matter to me.

24-6 and looking like ISU recently, isn't going to mean much to me, unless we are top 2 of the league.

I say let it play out....

It seems to me with all these senior guards that its NCAA or bust.
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As it should be.
 
Da Coach said:
You are right here. Bradley would make more profit by utilizing their own arena, even if it only holds 4,200+ than by holding events at the Civic Center for 9-10,000. There would be no rent, and Bradley would keep all the proceeds from parking, concessions, and have the opportunity to sell much more BU merchandise. And there are other benefits that include Bradley having their choice of any dates and times, there would be much greater student interest and participation, probably a much more beneficial "home-court advantage", and more traffic flow to the west bluff which would eventually lead to long-needed improvements to all the blighted areas surrounding Bradley's campus.
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And we would be seeing a non-conference schedule like we had to endure in the 70's. We have had some pretty good programs come into Carver since the Braves moved downtown. that wouldn't have came to the Fieldhouse, much less a 4200 seat facilty. When are some people going to realize that there are more season ticket holders than seats in the new gym. I guess throw them under the bus so the students can finally get to a game.
 
Chico said:
And we would be seeing a non-conference schedule like we had to endure in the 70's. We have had some pretty good programs come into Carver since the Braves moved downtown. that wouldn't have came to the Fieldhouse, much less a 4200 seat facilty. When are some people going to realize that there are more season ticket holders than seats in the new gym. I guess throw them under the bus so the students can finally get to a game.
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I'm just throwing this out there....

The Fieldhouse was a place NOBODY wanted to play at. It had a huge home-court advantage, loud/packed house, and a raised floor (and maybe some "home-cooking" too? ;)). I heard people say teams didn't want to play in those conditions.

As for Carver, I've heard the "wet floor" issues (playing on top of the ice) in the past has made the excuse for some teams to not want to play under those conditions or ever come back because of those conditions.
 
srw said:
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The key is a strong RPI.

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perhaps this was accurate in 2005-2006 but clearly it's now shown it is NOT always true....with teams whose RPIs are in the 30's and even 20's being ignored..and "favored" BCS teams whose RPI's are 60s & almost 70 and losing records in their conferences who do get bids...and there's even comments made by people with insider knowledge to the Selection Committee saying the RPI is meaningless...they use the purely subjective "eye test" now.....
 
Da Coach said:
The closed scrimmage will be against Iowa State this year. It is tentatively planned for the weekend of October 30-31, and the site has yet to be agreed on.

If Iowa State utilizes all their redshirting transfers, they could be a pretty good team to scrimmage against. Only Darion "Jake" Anderson, a post-graduate transfer from Northern Illinois, will be eligible to play this season for Iowa State coach Fred Hoiberg. The other transfers, Royce White (from Minnesota), Chris Babb (from Penn State), Chris Allen (from Michigan), Anthony Booker (from SIU), and John Lamb (from Morehead State) all would be allowed to participate in the scrimmage I believe, but will have to sit out the regular season before they are eligible to play next season.
How much would Iowa State coach Fred Hoiberg utilize these redshirting transfers? I would think he would want to prepare his team for the season, and thus I doubt the transfers would play much.

Here is Iowa State's roster- quite a few freshman and a new juco transfer-
http://www.cyclones.com/SportSelect.dbml?spid=4252&spsid=46664&db_oem_id=10700
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I believe Chris Allen was from Michigan State...
 
Chico said:
And we would be seeing a non-conference schedule like we had to endure in the 70's. We have had some pretty good programs come into Carver since the Braves moved downtown. that wouldn't have came to the Fieldhouse, much less a 4200 seat facilty. When are some people going to realize that there are more season ticket holders than seats in the new gym. I guess throw them under the bus so the students can finally get to a game.
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Again. . .we aren't able to get the same types of games we did 10 or even 15 years ago. We've been marginalized in that market because our buy amounts haven't increased the way others have and as the market's been flooded by teams taking buys and with more BCS schools doing the buying, the level of team we traditionally have had at Carver have all but disappeared because either they are doing the buying or going on the road only to BCS-level programs.

In order to get the games you want, BU needs to make more money in athletics, plain and simple. That is part of what is driving the move to get games on-campus.

More home games = more money + more wins + better opponents at Carver

Quite frankly, it will be increasingly difficult without making the move or obtaining a larger arena.

For 1-2 games can make a WORLD of difference.
 
squirrelgotdead said:
Again. . .we aren't able to get the same types of games we did 10 or even 15 years ago. We've been marginalized in that market because our buy amounts haven't increased the way others have and as the market's been flooded by teams taking buys and with more BCS schools doing the buying, the level of team we traditionally have had at Carver have all but disappeared because either they are doing the buying or going on the road only to BCS-level programs.

In order to get the games you want, BU needs to make more money in athletics, plain and simple. That is part of what is driving the move to get games on-campus.

More home games = more money + more wins + better opponents at Carver

Quite frankly, it will be increasingly difficult without making the move or obtaining a larger arena.

For 1-2 games can make a WORLD of difference.
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Michigan, Michigan St, Illinois, Villanova just to name a few teams that wouldn't come to town to play in a high school size gym, but have played at Carver. College basketball has changed over the last 40 years or so with most, but not all, major powers having larger playing facilities than they used to have in the "old days". The Fieldhouse was a great place to watch a game back then, but the Braves outgrew it. It's always nice when I go to another arena and think "this is a good facility, but for a mid-major Bradley has a place they can play and accomodate all their fans which is, in most cases, just as good or better." It would be good to have an on-campus arena, but face the facts, parking was a problem during the Fieldhouse days and 1 parking deck wouldn't solve that problem. I used to walk to the Fieldhouse from West Peoria in all kinds of weather. How many of us would want to do that now?
 
Chico said:
Michigan, Michigan St, Illinois, Villanova just to name a few teams that wouldn't come to town to play in a high school size gym, but have played at Carver. College basketball has changed over the last 40 years or so with most, but not all, major powers having larger playing facilities than they used to have in the "old days". The Fieldhouse was a great place to watch a game back then, but the Braves outgrew it. It's always nice when I go to another arena and think "this is a good facility, but for a mid-major Bradley has a place they can play and accomodate all their fans which is, in most cases, just as good or better." It would be good to have an on-campus arena, but face the facts, parking was a problem during the Fieldhouse days and 1 parking deck wouldn't solve that problem. I used to walk to the Fieldhouse from West Peoria in all kinds of weather. How many of us would want to do that now?
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Horse Die:lol:
 
My point was that some of you seem like you just cannot find the good in a situation without painting it negative in some way. Nothing is good enough. The Illini people do the same thing with Bruce Weber. Schedule comes out, people groan. New recruit comes in, we get "where's the big man". New scoreboard, people cry because it says Home and not Bradley. Fantastic new facilities where the students could more easily attend a game? People whine and threaten to yank their tickets (as if anyone cares) because of it. Get over yourself. The team would be fine without you.

I'm all for the occasional frustration, I have had them myself, but gee gosh willikers, I just don't understand the appeal of always finding the negative side of things, unless there is a longing for failure. I remember a time where people wanted John Shoop to fail, because they hated what he was doing, and the vitriol towards him made them criticize everything he did. Bear fans actually wanted the offense to look so bad that he would be canned, with the whole firejohnshoop.com nonsense. That's the impression I get from some of you on here. Everything is bad, focusing on what is not accomplished, rather than what is.

That's why I started the expectations thread, so we could get some of those people to talk before the season, instead of all of the revisionist stuff after the fact.

Whatever. When all is said and done, after the season, hopefully everyone will be happy.
 
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