(01-29-2013 01:32 PM)Dog Fan Wrote:  

(01-29-2013 01:27 PM)sterling1man Wrote:  The curse was to build the convo instead of refurbishing Huskie stadiums west side.

No, we needed a new arena. Continually playing in a high school gym that was the laughingstock of the conference made no sense.

Wait, this isn't the BG board...

(01-29-2013 03:31 PM)Mr Reality Wrote:  In all reality, whats stopping NIU from moving the Victory Bell to a new site in Huskie Stadium that the team could ring after a Huskie victory ?

NOOO!! Didn't you read, it's cursed. Don't jinx the football program!

How about one of the "coffee fund" people use their connections and cash that damn thing for recycling, use the money not for "coffee," but for a new, brightier paint job inside the Convo.

The convo needs way more NIU pix and all things NIU in it. It needs a winning team and more fans and it will become much brighter.

(01-29-2013 09:38 PM)niu2222 Wrote:  The convo needs way more NIU pix and all things NIU in it. It needs a winning team and more fans and it will become much brighter.

Especially if they finally turn the lights on.

(01-29-2013 10:38 PM)Dog Fan Wrote:  

(01-29-2013 09:38 PM)niu2222 Wrote:  The convo needs way more NIU pix and all things NIU in it. It needs a winning team and more fans and it will become much brighter.

Especially if they finally turn the lights on.

I always joke that's where our uglier and freakier fans are forced to sit and toil.

(01-30-2013 01:45 AM)The Frisky Biscuit Wrote:  

(01-29-2013 10:38 PM)Dog Fan Wrote:  

(01-29-2013 09:38 PM)niu2222 Wrote:  The convo needs way more NIU pix and all things NIU in it. It needs a winning team and more fans and it will become much brighter.

Especially if they finally turn the lights on.

I always joke that's where our uglier and freakier fans are forced to sit and toil.

The women's game on Sunday is televised. It would be nice if the lights were turned on. Then again, maybe they won't want the TV audience to see all those collapsed upper bowl seats.

I have never been in an arena where the lights are turned off to make it look like a movie theater.

(01-30-2013 08:42 AM)Dog Fan Wrote:  

(01-30-2013 01:45 AM)The Frisky Biscuit Wrote:  

(01-29-2013 10:38 PM)Dog Fan Wrote:  

(01-29-2013 09:38 PM)niu2222 Wrote:  The convo needs way more NIU pix and all things NIU in it. It needs a winning team and more fans and it will become much brighter.

Especially if they finally turn the lights on.

I always joke that's where our uglier and freakier fans are forced to sit and toil.

The women's game on Sunday is televised. It would be nice if the lights were turned on. Then again, maybe they won't want the TV audience to see all those collapsed upper bowl seats.

I have never been in an arena where the lights are turned off to make it look like a movie theater.

There have been wrestling meets at the Convo where they only turn on the lights under the scoreboard. It makes no sense, I have no idea who thinks it's a good idea.

(01-30-2013 11:57 AM)The Frisky Biscuit Wrote:  There have been wrestling meets at the Convo where they only turn on the lights under the scoreboard. It makes no sense, I have no idea who thinks it's a good idea.

Ah the spotlight match. Gives a bigger feel to a big match instead of wrestling it in our VE Court which is smaller than most of the kids HS gyms that they wrestled in.


As a former (crappy) high school wrestler I would not like it. It would be like an away match where the temp, humidity and sounds are totally different than what I am used to for all the other home matches.

If they sell out VE Court and there is additional large attendance demand for these big matches then fine but if not its a waste of resources for NIU.

(01-30-2013 11:57 AM)The Frisky Biscuit Wrote:  

(01-30-2013 08:42 AM)Dog Fan Wrote:  

(01-30-2013 01:45 AM)The Frisky Biscuit Wrote:  

(01-29-2013 10:38 PM)Dog Fan Wrote:  

(01-29-2013 09:38 PM)niu2222 Wrote:  The convo needs way more NIU pix and all things NIU in it. It needs a winning team and more fans and it will become much brighter.

Especially if they finally turn the lights on.

I always joke that's where our uglier and freakier fans are forced to sit and toil.

The women's game on Sunday is televised. It would be nice if the lights were turned on. Then again, maybe they won't want the TV audience to see all those collapsed upper bowl seats.

I have never been in an arena where the lights are turned off to make it look like a movie theater.

There have been wrestling meets at the Convo where they only turn on the lights under the scoreboard. It makes no sense, I have no idea who thinks it's a good idea.

"Spotlight wrestling" is done at the high school level. DeKalb H.S. has been doing it for years. I don't know if they're still doing it at the new DHS, but it made for a very cool atmoshphere at the old DHS.

(01-30-2013 12:38 PM)huskiebob Wrote:  

(01-30-2013 11:57 AM)The Frisky Biscuit Wrote:  

(01-30-2013 08:42 AM)Dog Fan Wrote:  

(01-30-2013 01:45 AM)The Frisky Biscuit Wrote:  

(01-29-2013 10:38 PM)Dog Fan Wrote:  Especially if they finally turn the lights on.

I always joke that's where our uglier and freakier fans are forced to sit and toil.

The women's game on Sunday is televised. It would be nice if the lights were turned on. Then again, maybe they won't want the TV audience to see all those collapsed upper bowl seats.

I have never been in an arena where the lights are turned off to make it look like a movie theater.

There have been wrestling meets at the Convo where they only turn on the lights under the scoreboard. It makes no sense, I have no idea who thinks it's a good idea.

"Spotlight wrestling" is done at the high school level. DeKalb H.S. has been doing it for years. I don't know if they're still doing it at the new DHS, but it made for a very cool atmoshphere at the old DHS.

Maybe we should also do that for basketball and shine the spotlight on only certain players.

Lakers and the New York Nicks have the lights down.

We should have a lazer (the Z makes it cooler, man) show during the game, because aw hell yeah!

(01-30-2013 01:11 PM)The Frisky Biscuit Wrote:  We should have a lazer (the Z makes it cooler, man) show during the game, because aw hell yeah!

In the very first game at the Convo, they had actual fireworks shooting down from the scoreboard. Now THAT was cool. Not sure about concerts in the Convo, but I don't believe it's been done since for a basketball game. Then again, there has been no reason to do it.

(01-30-2013 11:57 AM)The Frisky Biscuit Wrote:  There have been wrestling meets at the Convo where they only turn on the lights under the scoreboard. It makes no sense, I have no idea who thinks it's a good idea.

This dates back to when Ed Vatch was the assistant to Don Flavin and they installed a huge spotlight above midcourt in Evans Field House to give the wrestling meets a supposedly cool atmosphere. That notion of a "spotlight" match continued under Dave Grant and initially in the Convo, they'd put the wrestling mat up on a stage to enhance that spotlight affect. I still think winning is the single best affect.

Hustlebelt tweeted this Washington post article about MM and the aftermath

Cool WaPo article on NIU and coach Montgomery: http://wapo.st/WfgyS2 echoes what I wrote the night of their win: http://bit.ly/WfgvWx

(02-02-2013 11:04 PM)numbersdontlie Wrote:  Hustlebelt tweeted this Washington post article about MM and the aftermath

Cool WaPo article on NIU and coach Montgomery: http://wapo.st/WfgyS2 echoes what I wrote the night of their win: http://bit.ly/WfgvWx

John Feinstein is an outstanding writer for the Washington Post. His basketball books are brilliant.