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(01-09-2016 07:20 PM)Smaug Wrote:  People in Alabama think Auburn is a name team.

It is what it is. Perception matters. Playing a basketball team with good football history will draw a lot of people here.

So anyway, The Artist Formerly Known As Irk continues to impress, stealing an extra possession with excellent acting skills after a ball bounced out of bounds off Norton's forearm.

(01-09-2016 07:21 PM)dfarr Wrote:  The conference is what kills us. I was a student from 2000-04 when we played Louisville, Cincy, Memphis, Marquette, etc regularly. Those were good teams with good traditions. Only the dedicate fans want to go to see the crappy teams we have to play in conference these days.

This. The casual fan doesn't care we are beating teams like MTSU and WKU. Add to that, we have one NCAA Tournament win since 2007.

I am talking about football on TV. ..Bama playing for a NC

In other news, Marshall is looking good again for their 3rd CUSA game in a row. They beat WKU by 18, FAU by 23, and now they're up by 14 on FIU.

If ODU beats Southern Miss there will only be 3 teams undefeated in CUSA play remaining: UAB, ODU, and Marshall.

ODU 24 USM 25 3:37 in 1st

LT 81 Charlotte 79 with 2:00 left in 2nd

Marshall 86 FIU 72 3:52 left in 2nd

As someone said above, our opponents popularity has decreased at a faster rate than our attendance. Should we show up to see UAB, yes, I do, most on this board does. But we are not the ones missing, the fringe UAB fan is missing. The season ticket prices have not gone down, but the quality of opponent has taken a nosedive. As many as we not want that to matter, it does. Some say we played a great opponent today, people should show up. Die hards know that, but ask the fringe fan. We lost the only 3 opportunities we had to impress the fringe fan, yep 0-3. You may not like it, but it's the truth.

Also... the Watts effect has to be taken into account.

I'm for adding the luxury suites and decreasing the capacity of Bartow. The days of packing in 8500 plus fans for a game are probably over unless we are playing a team that will likely bring a lot of their own fans.

Only Blazer fans could suck all the fun out of a great win.

(01-09-2016 09:48 PM)Smaug Wrote:  Only Blazer fans could suck all the fun out of a great win.

Correct. The football fiasco has turned diehard Blazer fans into fans who look for things to complain about and find fault with. We led almost the entire game and was never really threatened in the second half, but to read this thread, you would think we were getting destroyed and our record was 3-13 rather than 13-3.

Fans should not have an adversarial realationship with the entire athletic department. Maybe the wounds are too fresh.

Why all of this doom and gloom? We WILL make the move up to AAC in the next couple of years at the very least. It may not be the same AAC that it is today, but it'll still function to bring better teams to Bartow. It's a only a matter of time...we just need like 2-3 consecutive years of football and basketball success in conjunction with a demonstrated commitment to better facilities (new stadium, upgraded bartow, BBVA compass field, IPF) and we'll make the move up. Celebrate the win!

Southern Miss going to beat ODU

Louisiana Tech had to go to overtime at home to beat Charlotte.

(01-09-2016 10:04 PM)Shrack Wrote:  Southern Miss going to beat ODU

Wow

C-USA is trying to get worse rpi numbers

Just us and Marshall left 3-0 atop CUSA.

Where was Madison in the second half, even when we had the big lead? He played some in the first half.

(01-09-2016 11:15 PM)dfarr Wrote:  Where was Madison in the second half, even when we had the big lead? He played some in the first half.

He's been playing less than 10 minutes a game pretty much since the first of December.

(01-09-2016 11:20 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  

(01-09-2016 11:15 PM)dfarr Wrote:  Where was Madison in the second half, even when we had the big lead? He played some in the first half.

He's been playing less than 10 minutes a game pretty much since the first of December.

Both Madison and Sullivan only played 4 minutes this afternoon.

Madison is the 10th man in the rotation.

Sullivan has had a mostly good season, but he came in today and promptly got beat twice on defense, one for an and one three-point play.. He didn't deserve to play much today..

MB can say we are overly negative, but anyone with objective eyes would be worried about our defense. We looked pretty soft to me. We get a lot of nice highlight reel blocks, but we give up a ton of paint points and run outs when we failed to get back on defense..