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Post by bandwagon fan on Apr 9, 2024 18:02:24 GMT -6
Too funny. When Calipari was at Memphis, the games between UA and Memphis were often heated. An intense rivalry was generated, in his brief stop there. He was hated in Fayetteville. Guess feral hogs have short memories? My bad, I just assumed the had played more the one time. Remembered Memphis winning in Fayetteville. I was in Ft. Smith and hearing the locals bitch about Cal and him trying to poach Richardson's recruits.
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Post by E-Villan on Apr 9, 2024 18:43:36 GMT -6
Too funny. When Calipari was at Memphis, the games between UA and Memphis were often heated. An intense rivalry was generated, in his brief stop there. He was hated in Fayetteville. Guess feral hogs have short memories? Feral Hogs don't have short memories, all is just forgiven the moment the arch-enemy comes to your side. For years, Will Clark was booed every time he came to the plate in St. Louis, going back to a little fight with Ozzie. The boos turned to cheers the second he put the birds on the bat on.
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Post by bandwagon fan on Apr 10, 2024 14:11:10 GMT -6
Too funny. When Calipari was at Memphis, the games between UA and Memphis were often heated. An intense rivalry was generated, in his brief stop there. He was hated in Fayetteville. Guess feral hogs have short memories? Feral Hogs don't have short memories, all is just forgiven the moment the arch-enemy comes to your side. For years, Will Clark was booed every time he came to the plate in St. Louis, going back to a little fight with Ozzie. The boos turned to cheers the second he put the birds on the bat on. Coleman walks. Ozzie watches several pitches, allowing Coleman to take second. Ozzie slaps an infield dribbler or sneaks one through the gap moving Coleman to third. Jack swings away. Coleman tags and scores easily from Jack's 400 ft fly out to left center at Busch. If Jack drills a double off the wall, Vince and Smith (if on base) both score. Willie's on deck to move him across. Every third inning, rinse and repeat Stingy defense Stable pitching Cards win 4-1 or 5-2 Pub Crawl afterwards through The Landing Whitey Ball loved it!
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Post by aceloverlarry on Apr 10, 2024 15:35:30 GMT -6
Graves is the guy at ISU. It will be interesting to see how this one goes. If he hadn’t seen the McCarrty train wreck coming and jumped ship after one season, I think there’s a pretty good chance he’s elevated to interim HC when Walter’s fired and made permanent HC instead of Lickliter. Not sure it would’ve worked, and I’m not sure he’ll be able to maintain Schertzs momentum, but it’s interesting to think about as we see him get to work in Terre Haute.
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Post by paradeuce on Apr 10, 2024 16:30:03 GMT -6
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Post by acescott on Apr 10, 2024 18:25:14 GMT -6
I'm happy for Matt Graves. I lived in the same neighborhood during the year he was here, enjoyed my conversations with him. Nice guy... down to Earth Hoosier native. Good family. Almost Seems too 'nice' to be a D1 coach.
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Post by municup14 on Apr 11, 2024 8:38:05 GMT -6
Graves is a Indiana guy and has contacts in the State.Hope it works out for him.
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Post by paradeuce on Apr 11, 2024 9:03:44 GMT -6
Talk of one of his Butler teammates (Jon Neuhouser) becoming an Associate HC. A glance @ LinkedIn shows him away from BB since leaving Butler in '98. Then you also have the TH "homies" crying again for Jake Odum as an Asst...
If ISU desires the return of the Greg Lansing 60 ppg offense, then hire him. Last I saw, he was an Asst to Bobby Hurley @ AZ St. the past season, but w/ another sub-500 (14-18) record, Hurley may AGAIN be looking for staff changes. Frankly, I think Schertz has "weaned" most TH/ISU fans from the ol' GL "23 sec & a cloud of dust" offense for the next few yrs.
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Post by E-Villan on Apr 11, 2024 15:12:15 GMT -6
Former Lady Aces coach Tricia Cullop has taken the Miami (FL) job. Hard to imagine we had a womens coach capable of compiling a 73-48 record here in 8 seasons. She also won MVC Coach of the Year in 2008.
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Post by 65pointgame on Apr 11, 2024 15:56:21 GMT -6
Former Lady Aces coach Tricia Cullop has taken the Miami (FL) job. Hard to imagine we had a womens coach capable of compiling a 73-48 record here in 8 seasons. She also won MVC Coach of the Year in 2008.
She was very successful at Toledo (after UE) with a 353-169 record, going to the NCAA tourney twice and multiple times to the WNIT/WBIT. Her record at UE was 123-110 --- Wiki has it wrong in the "Evansville" paragraph.
Toledo home attendance this past year averaged 4300 ---
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Post by 65pointgame on Apr 12, 2024 9:37:47 GMT -6
The white smoke arose from Rupp Arena late last night, confirming that Pope is the man. Wonder if he will ask his old teammate WM to come onto the coaching staff? lol
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Post by aceschamps6571 on Apr 12, 2024 9:47:12 GMT -6
Former Lady Aces coach Tricia Cullop has taken the Miami (FL) job. Hard to imagine we had a womens coach capable of compiling a 73-48 record here in 8 seasons. She also won MVC Coach of the Year in 2008. She had Roberts Stadium as a home court to recruit to. Carson Center/Meeks Family Fieldhouse (not close to a fieldhouse) is not going to attract enough talent to give the coach a fair shot at competing in the MVC.
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Post by E-Villan on Apr 12, 2024 10:38:03 GMT -6
I agree, but first and foremost, she is a helluva coach. Her record at Toledo is outstanding, not only from a W/L record, but the shape of the program overall. Their average attendance is over 3K.
She also followed another successful women's coach in Kathi Bennett. The team was just off an NCAA appearance when she arrived, and Crews still had the men in good shape. She came into a better situation than RSW for example, but you still have to give a lot of credit to Cullop for maintaining and even building the program.
I have no idea what the best answer is in regards to Meeks. I agree it is a huge disadvantage. We have debated alternative arenas before, such as rehabbing Central Gym, but there seems to be a lot of obstacles to that.
For the realistic short term, it seems we need to try to work something out with VenuWorks on the Ford. The OVC plays a lot of double-headers. I have no idea if that is a viable option for us in the MVC. I know the league likes to schedule on different nights than the men's games.
I think anything on campus is simply unrealistic at this time, from both a logistics standpoint as well as financial. If the city/VW is uncooperative, then maybe it's time to have a conversation with Warrick County. They may very well have an interest in a 7,500 seat arena/convention center somewhere near I-69/Lloyd. That location wouldn't really be out of our fanbase footprint.
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Post by aceloverlarry on Apr 12, 2024 10:56:37 GMT -6
I agree, but first and foremost, she is a helluva coach. Her record at Toledo is outstanding, not only from a W/L record, but the shape of the program overall. Their average attendance is over 3K. She also followed another successful women's coach in Kathi Bennett. The team was just off an NCAA appearance when she arrived, and Crews still had the men in good shape. She came into a better situation than RSW for example, but you still have to give a lot of credit to Cullop for maintaining and even building the program. I have no idea what the best answer is in regards to Meeks. I agree it is a huge disadvantage. We have debated alternative arenas before, such as rehabbing Central Gym, but there seems to be a lot of obstacles to that. For the realistic short term, it seems we need to try to work something out with VenuWorks on the Ford. The OVC plays a lot of double-headers. I have no idea if that is a viable option for us in the MVC. I know the league likes to schedule on different nights than the men's games. I think anything on campus is simply unrealistic at this time, from both a logistics standpoint as well as financial. If the city/VW is uncooperative, then maybe it's time to have a conversation with Warrick County. They may very well have an interest in a 7,500 seat arena/convention center somewhere near I-69/Lloyd. That location wouldn't really be out of our fanbase footprint. I’m sure the ford center would gladly take another tenant. The question is does it make financial sense for UE to do so? I’m pretty confident the answer to that question is no. They would need to have success to increase attendance to justify it, and I don’t see that happening. Obviously playing in Meeks is going to make it hard to have the success necessary to make the move, which makes it a bit of a catch 22 situation, but I don’t see the athletic department spending an extra 100k on Ford Center rent to have 500-1k fans in attendance. Their only hope is that the men’s team has enough success to fill up the ford center to 7k every home game and generate enough revenue fo cover the women’s team, but even in that scenario, I think most UE fans would prefer that the money be invested back into making the men’s program better. Just a tough situation and unless a booster is willing to step up and invest in the women’s program I don’t see much hope for improvement. I also think if you told RSW that they had $100k available on a yearly basis and asked her how they should spend it to best make the program better, her answer probably wouldn’t be to rent the Ford Center out. I think $100k spent on assistant coaches, recruiting budget, or NIL would help them win more than playing in the Ford Center with a bunch of empty seats.
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Post by stennisrm72 on Apr 12, 2024 11:06:07 GMT -6
The OVC has been using the women's/men's doubleheaders since at least 1980. I got season tickets for Tennessee Tech games since it was the only college game in town and the Aces were coming in to play. All conference games were doubleheaders. There's no reason reason in my mind the Valley couldn't do the same thing. It almost certainly has to be more cost effective.
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