Bothof to SGA: NKU-UC to play in basketball next year

Austin Elmore
Hannah Hagedorn, Asst. News Editor

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Confirmation of an NKU-UC men’s basketball game next season and a new graduation planning system highlighted Monday’s Student Government Association meeting.
Special guests gave presentations and answered questions about the University of Cincinnati coming to play home basketball games at BB&T Arena next season.

Andy Meeks, Business Operations and Auxiliary Services director said that while specific financial agreements have not been made yet, UC basketball will have “considerable financial impact” on NKU.
NKU Athletic Director Ken Bothof said that while NKU was happy to help UC basketball find a home while renovations occur at their arena, he wants to make sure that NKU athletes know they are still the top priority.

He also said that NKU and UC playing each other in basketball next season was a non-negotiable part of the agreement between the two universities.
SGA members expressed concern for increased traffic and reduced parking availability while UC games are being held in BB&T arena.

Meeks said NKU will most likely seek services from a traffic company to create a “Comprehensive traffic and parking plan for those games and selective entertainment events.” He mentioned using Furniture Fair’s parking lot as a satellite parking location and increasing security measures during games.

Bothof said it is highly likely that each of the 16-18 UC basketball games at BB&T will be sold out due to past attendance rates at UC’s Fifth Third Arena, which seats about 3,000 more people than BB&T. NKU students will not have access to free tickets as they do with NKU games.

http://www.thenortherner.com/news/2017/0...egotiable/

Ooops!

Editor’s note: A previous version of the story said UC and NKU would play next season. Bryan McEldowney, assistant athletic director, corrected the information to state that the two schools would play, “in the future,” but not next season. The corrected version of the story appears below.

Too bad. NKU is actually setting up to be a pretty good team next year. I think they'll actually be the team to beat in the Horizon.

Hopefully they are better hosts than they are student journalists.

The logistics of choosing a home team and season ticket packages for both schools probably pushed this out a year.

UC should open the New Shoe with NKU as a thank you.

(03-02-2017 02:58 PM)rath v2.0 Wrote:  UC should open the New Shoe with NKU as a thank you.

UC should open the New Shoe with a top 10 squad.

(03-02-2017 03:07 PM)Not Duane Wrote:  

(03-02-2017 02:58 PM)rath v2.0 Wrote:  UC should open the New Shoe with NKU as a thank you.

UC should open the New Shoe with a top 10 squad.

Well tell Doss to open up his wallet and offer up a few million to get it done.

(03-02-2017 02:58 PM)rath v2.0 Wrote:  UC should open the New Shoe with NKU as a thank you.

I like this. I also like the idea of offering them a 2 for 1 as a thank you. Their arena is a quality arena so you don't feel like you're going to some glorified high school level MAC gym and they appear to be building a respectable D1 team.

(03-02-2017 03:08 PM)bearcatmark Wrote:  

(03-02-2017 03:07 PM)Not Duane Wrote:  

(03-02-2017 02:58 PM)rath v2.0 Wrote:  UC should open the New Shoe with NKU as a thank you.

UC should open the New Shoe with a top 10 squad.

Well tell Doss to open up his wallet and offer up a few million to get it done.

What coach should we pursue?

Doss works second shift at Walmart....he stocks the sporting goods

nm...wrong thread