(01-22-2019 12:07 PM)ballantyneapp Wrote:  

(01-22-2019 11:38 AM)herdfan129 Wrote:  Our basketball programs bring in more money than some of your football programs lol

Serious question about Marshall basketball:

Do you guys also bring in non-qualifiers for basketball? I'm really impressed with the attendance, and if you're doing things the right way, i'll become a Marshall basketball fan until App gets the ship right.

We have zero NQs in basketball that I know of. We get a lot of local/regional kids that other schools pass on. Our coach is excellent at developing talent and we play a very exciting brand of basketball.

Averaging almost 6,700/game right now and biggest crowd this year has only been 7,667 for the WKU game. We had over 8,300 at a game last year so still hoping to get back to that. We haven't sold out (9k+) in 4-5 years.

Yes, our football takes a lot of NQs. I wish we did a better job with it if we are going to take them though.


EDIT: If you like the style of play that the Houston Rockets run then you will like Marshall's style. Our HC Dan D'Antoni is the older brother of Mike D'Antoni who is the HC of the Rockets. Both are from WV and played basketball at Marshall.