(04-15-2015 07:49 AM)EKUSteve Wrote:  

(04-15-2015 07:19 AM)Libertygrad01 Wrote:  You made the playoffs last year and had less than 2,000 at a home playoff game. Let that sink in, less than 2,000 and I'm sure ISU brought a few hundred. As bad as KY has been, if UK and EKU plays on the same day EKU won't have the needed support.

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I know. I was there. We haven't been the lone ranger on this. We have no students around and the dorms are closed. We had about the same when we played JMU several years ago.

For perspective, WKU only had 3300 at the last FCS playoff game they hosted on Thanksgiving weekend as well. A few years before that WKU almost disbanded the entire football program due to lack of attendance. Once there administration got behind football, things started moving for them.

Maybe we'll struggle, but I feel that if we need to move up and get back on the level with many of our historical rivals. Not having WKU come to town every other year hurts our attendance numbers badly. Not playing schools at home like Appalachian State and Georgia Southern or Marshall and Middle Tennessee hurts attendance. Those were our big rivals until the move ups occurred. I'm happy we have an administration for once that sees sports as a way to promote the school as opposed to several previous ones who either were ambivalent about sports or anti-sports.

I'll be interested to see how the new AD handles all this as one of the challenges will be to fund the new sports we will need to field for meeting Title IX as well as the increase in football scholarships and coaching staff across the board without increasing the amount of money coming out of the general fund.

Yes, we have challenges (UK up the road and Keenland in October), but I don't think the administration is turning a blind eye to the issues and just trying to move up for move up sake.

Close but 4400....A few years? 1992 was when the vote was made to keep football, that was almost 15 or 16 years ago from when you are referencing to our last FCS playoff game....

Our admin. had vision and plans from 2000 on to move to FBS and took us 8 years later to fully make the move, not 3 months like EKU's vision...Geography was not as much of a factor for WKU as much as it will be for UK's double A university...

(04-15-2015 08:27 AM)WKUFan518 Wrote:  

(04-15-2015 07:49 AM)EKUSteve Wrote:  

(04-15-2015 07:19 AM)Libertygrad01 Wrote:  You made the playoffs last year and had less than 2,000 at a home playoff game. Let that sink in, less than 2,000 and I'm sure ISU brought a few hundred. As bad as KY has been, if UK and EKU plays on the same day EKU won't have the needed support.

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I know. I was there. We haven't been the lone ranger on this. We have no students around and the dorms are closed. We had about the same when we played JMU several years ago.

For perspective, WKU only had 3300 at the last FCS playoff game they hosted on Thanksgiving weekend as well. A few years before that WKU almost disbanded the entire football program due to lack of attendance. Once there administration got behind football, things started moving for them.

Maybe we'll struggle, but I feel that if we need to move up and get back on the level with many of our historical rivals. Not having WKU come to town every other year hurts our attendance numbers badly. Not playing schools at home like Appalachian State and Georgia Southern or Marshall and Middle Tennessee hurts attendance. Those were our big rivals until the move ups occurred. I'm happy we have an administration for once that sees sports as a way to promote the school as opposed to several previous ones who either were ambivalent about sports or anti-sports.

I'll be interested to see how the new AD handles all this as one of the challenges will be to fund the new sports we will need to field for meeting Title IX as well as the increase in football scholarships and coaching staff across the board without increasing the amount of money coming out of the general fund.

Yes, we have challenges (UK up the road and Keenland in October), but I don't think the administration is turning a blind eye to the issues and just trying to move up for move up sake.

Close but 4400....A few years? 1992 was when the vote was made to keep football, that was almost 15 or 16 years ago from when you are referencing to our last FCS playoff game....

Our admin. had vision and plans from 2000 on to move to FBS and took us 8 years later to fully make the move, not 3 months like EKU's vision...Geography was not as much of a factor for WKU as much as it will be for UK's double A university...

Thanks for the info. I couldn't remember the exact dates on some of your transition.

It wasn't quite 3 months but it was less than a year. For the most part we have not had any administration with forethought until now.

If you EKU guys need help bumping your attendance, our friends in Atlanta could give you some good advice. It rhymes with "Dash Crop"

Too much "blue" being mixed in with maroon imo.

So...EKU needs to keep it on the field. It's not the same if you knock a QB out of a game as it is to knock one out in a dorm. This is making the rounds on the interwebz...

http://www.sbnation.com/college-football...ight-video

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(04-15-2015 01:57 PM)trojanbrutha Wrote:  So...EKU needs to keep it on the field. It's not the same if you knock a QB out of a game as it is to knock one out in a dorm. This is making the rounds on the interwebz...

http://www.sbnation.com/college-football...ight-video

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Yeah both of them need to be not playing. Not sure the status of either Scurry or Graffree.

(04-14-2015 10:54 PM)LexColonel Wrote:  Guess everyone who doubts EKU knows more than the EKU president, Board of Regents, and the AD. The AD has been quoted in the last two days on the Internet and in the local media (newspapers and on Lexington television stations) that a move to FBS was still on the agenda. Second to hiring a new basketball coach, which happened last week. it is evident this is still under serious consideration. The administration is moving forward doing the things that need to be done. I have no reason to doubt that EKU is any less likely to get things in place than anyone else (other than Liberty who seems to have boat loads of money thrown their way?).

Most people on this board know more about your school, city, and fan base than you do even though they say they have never heard of your school. Its the Sun Belt way.

I'm shocked that no charge were brought against Pat Graffree. That's assault anyway you look at it.

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(04-15-2015 02:34 PM)rbostic218 Wrote:  Most people on this board know more about your school, city, and fan base than you do even though they say they have never heard of your school. Its the Sun Belt way.

(04-15-2015 02:50 PM)Libertygrad01 Wrote:  I'm shocked that no charge were brought against Pat Graffree. That's assault anyway you look at it.

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Not sure that is not happening. All I've seen was the article saying no charges were being brought against the UK players. I've seen nothing yet in the Richmond, KY paper/site on whether or not charges will be brought against Graffree or Scurry.

If you hit a Uk player, the guy might be locked up for awhile...I stay away from watching poor football for the most part (UK football) but I may have to check out the UK vs EKU football game this season...

You can bet your bottom dollar these UK boys were running their mouth at the bar. After the incident at the bar the 3 go to the dorm where many EKU football players live...looking for more trouble don't you think. After 3 on 1 beating of the EKU player by the 3 UK thugs, they just decide to head on over to the football dorm for a little chat, I doubt it. The sucker punch does not look good, I agree. But there's obviously more to the story here, are you convinced the 3 UK boys were just innocent little smurfs in all this? One of them broke a bottle over Scurry 's face at the bar, that's usually an assault charge.Those 3 players were in trouble last fall for shooting off pellet guns on UK's campus,and it shut down the UK campus for several hours because of gun shots while the police figured out what was going on, one or several of them were also involved in a mouthing incident at the UK- Louisville game last fall, that all most got out of hand.
As they say it takes two to tango...and the 3 from UK were certainly there for the dance!

ITo all the Western peeps on here, "you're moved on" (that's the phrase you guys love to throw around) so why all the concern about EKU. So we aren't following your time line, we don't have the time to mess around with this. There's been too much of that for the last 30 years. It's as if you all are afraid we'll get it done, ridiculous. I don't care of EKU hires Billy Ray Cyrus or Little Bo Peep IF they get the job done. The only real connection long term with UK is the AD, hired because of his many business and political connections, and he was hired to Fund Raise for ATHLETICS. Folks talk about what they think is our " lack of money", yet we have made two major hires to raise the needed funds and raise the bar, President Benson and the AD, and here we have Western fans on here whining about it. As far as our new basketball coach, maybe that's your concern. He has been an assistant under Rick Pitino and Richard Pitino (as well as one of your old coaches who left for greener pastures I believe). Our new Coach McHale was rated an A+ hire recently. Maybe that's really the issue for you Western people. It's no secret that many of your basketball fans aren't happy. And btw, no one in Richmond is crying about Neubauer leaving, most did not like his style of play and are happy with the new coach we hired. These silly put downs by Western fans regarding our proximity to Lexington. We can't move EKU, but don't pretend that you don't deal with the same obsessive UK fans/Western grads in Bowling Green. The UK crazy, obsessed fans are all over this state, and I know and YOU know it , that you have a lot of alumni that won't give Western the time of day because of their UK obsessive loyalty. You can't live in KY, even in Louisville with out seeing these nut cases every day!
Just don't worry your little red head about EKU. Just like I don't know what Western can do, will do, may do, (and truly do not care or give you a second thought), you have no clue what will take place at EKU. BTW, the rumor is that you have dropped swimming because your school needs the money. I know that the media is reporting it's because the program has been in hot water over behaviors by both the athletes and recruiting by the coaches. Either way, does not look good. So as you criticize EKU, pot meet kettle.

I read that the school dropped swimming & diving for 5 yrs for hazing and other improprieties. Mens & women's staffs are out this summer...

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(04-15-2015 03:58 PM)LexColonel Wrote:  You can bet your bottom dollar these UK boys were running their mouth at the bar. After the incident at the bar the 3 go to the dorm where many EKU football players live...looking for more trouble don't you think. After 3 on 1 beating of the EKU player by the 3 UK thugs, they just decide to head on over to the football dorm for a little chat, I doubt it. The sucker punch does not look good, I agree. But there's obviously more to the story here, are you convinced the 3 UK boys were just innocent little smurfs in all this? One of them broke a bottle over Scurry 's face at the bar, that's usually an assault charge.Those 3 players were in trouble last fall for shooting off pellet guns on UK's campus,and it shut down the UK campus for several hours because of gun shots while the police figured out what was going on, one or several of them were also involved in a mouthing incident at the UK- Louisville game last fall, that all most got out of hand.
As they say it takes two to tango...and the 3 from UK were certainly there for the dance!

No spin bro EKU is the one looking bad on this one. Anybody that sucker punches is punk.

I said the punch by the EKU player was bad, no way around it. But do you believe that those uk boys, 3 on 1, who also hit the EKU player in the face with a beer bottle, are innocent in this. I can tell you there are two stories out there. And the media will have you believe the UK players did nothing. That is not the case. You tell me why they went to the football dorm AfTER they beat the EKU player pretty signifcantly. The EKU player who sucker punched the UK player is a transfer from UK, who knew the UK players prior to this. The whole thing is stupid and juvenile and puts a black eye unfortunately on us. There is fault on both sides, but the media is making sure they slant the report toward EKU players being at fault.

Look who the aggressors were in both videos. Jealous eku players that wish they played at UK.

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We need a four team playoff between LU, JMU, MoSt, and EKU. Winner gets in. Karl is there but doesn't seem interested in anything that is happening.

(04-15-2015 09:25 PM)bamaEagle Wrote:  We need a four team playoff between LU, JMU, MoSt, and EKU. Winner gets in. Karl is there but doesn't seem interested in anything that is happening.

In a world that made sense, mostate would be the one. they are a substantial school academically, have some nice facilities, are not one of a herd of also-rans in their state and their name sounds more big-time..just my view if you are trying to build a conference that has relevance on a more national stage.