(04-08-2018 01:10 PM)LibertyOrangeman Wrote:  

(04-08-2018 09:33 AM)Ewglenn Wrote:  

(04-08-2018 09:29 AM)Ewglenn Wrote:  

(04-08-2018 12:54 AM)army56mike Wrote:  Ah. These weren’t in any kind of order by priority. But, yes, you are right.

I wonder what our basketball attendance breakdown is.....
% - Student Body
% - Faculty/University Employees
% - Community Fans
% - Team Member Family
% - Visiting Team Fans
% - Band/Cheerleaders/Ushers/Stadium Workers

%alumni

My guess would be

10% student body
25% alumni
10% University employees
20% community fans
5% team family
10% visiting fans
20% band/cheerleaders/ushers/stadium workers

I'd say 60-75% of the attendees are students. Our attendance would greatly suck if not for the kids. This is probably the case for the vast majority of Big South and low-mid major schools. I've never understood the scheduling rationale of the Big South and NCAA. The dates and start times sometimes makes no sense to me.

That said, winning naturally will cure our attendance woes, but also improving our non-conference schedule will help as well. Nobody gets excited for glorified scrimmages against Clarks Summit and LCA. Basketball should adopt a similar philosophoy that football had, and only schedule D1 opponents. This will help with both attendance and player performance. but if we have to schedule cupcakes, at least schedule some local D2 and D3 schools, like Lynchburg and Hampden Sydney- schools that the locals have heard of and might have a little bit of interest and may actually bring a few people vs. the 0 that comes from KY Christian. Just my 2 cents.

I think that is true too. I think IM didnt have much time to focus on thr bb schedule. I expect next years ooc schedule to be better.

(04-08-2018 01:29 PM)Ewglenn Wrote:  

(04-08-2018 01:10 PM)LibertyOrangeman Wrote:  

(04-08-2018 09:33 AM)Ewglenn Wrote:  

(04-08-2018 09:29 AM)Ewglenn Wrote:  

(04-08-2018 12:54 AM)army56mike Wrote:  Ah. These weren’t in any kind of order by priority. But, yes, you are right.

I wonder what our basketball attendance breakdown is.....
% - Student Body
% - Faculty/University Employees
% - Community Fans
% - Team Member Family
% - Visiting Team Fans
% - Band/Cheerleaders/Ushers/Stadium Workers

%alumni

My guess would be

10% student body
25% alumni
10% University employees
20% community fans
5% team family
10% visiting fans
20% band/cheerleaders/ushers/stadium workers

I'd say 60-75% of the attendees are students. Our attendance would greatly suck if not for the kids. This is probably the case for the vast majority of Big South and low-mid major schools. I've never understood the scheduling rationale of the Big South and NCAA. The dates and start times sometimes makes no sense to me.

That said, winning naturally will cure our attendance woes, but also improving our non-conference schedule will help as well. Nobody gets excited for glorified scrimmages against Clarks Summit and LCA. Basketball should adopt a similar philosophoy that football had, and only schedule D1 opponents. This will help with both attendance and player performance. but if we have to schedule cupcakes, at least schedule some local D2 and D3 schools, like Lynchburg and Hampden Sydney- schools that the locals have heard of and might have a little bit of interest and may actually bring a few people vs. the 0 that comes from KY Christian. Just my 2 cents.

I think that is true too. I think IM didnt have much time to focus on thr bb schedule. I expect next years ooc schedule to be better.

I don't think the AD schedules non-conference basketball. I heard it was the coaching staff so it would likely improve based on things other than the athletic director. Unless, of course, if McCaw forced better games which is entirely possible to get more fans in attendance.

Originally I wasn’t thrilled about the new gym, but now I’m kinda wxcited about it.

(05-13-2018 02:28 AM)army56mike Wrote:  Originally I wasn’t thrilled about the new gym, but now I’m kinda wxcited about it.

What caused the change of heart?

Time..... and getting use to a smaller venue being better. It will be good to have full capacity crowds cheering rather than 3/4 empty arena. And, if needed for bigger games, we have access to the Vines Center.

It was the same way with the new LU logo. It took me a while to warm up to it and the new font. But now I really like it. It’s clean and distinctive.