dennycrane wrote:What makes you so sure of this, up, that we will move up? Within the last two years, Rob't Vowels, at one of the outdoor picnics, when asked if we were married to the HL, responded that we were very married. So I don't necessarily agree that the Athletic Dept's long term goal is to move up. There's been no indication of that at all.
ExcitedTitan wrote:If we promised or Davis thought there was a chance of changing conferences in the near and not so near future then they are all fools, assuming that change would be for a better conference. We have no money to move, don't offer a better conference much, if anything, and nobody wants us. Hate to break it to you but we are not Butler, Valpo, Loyola, Xavier, Dayton or Evansville. We are not even like Duquesne, LaSalle or St. Louis. We are more like Oklahoma City or Oral Roberts.
We draw 1000 fans on a good day. We rarely win our conference regular season ('98, '99) or championship ('94, '99,'12). That's 2 regular season and 3 HL tournament wins in 38 years, and 4 of those happened in a 5 year period.
1 conference championship and 0 regular season championships in the last 19 years.
Lets hold off on the conference move talk until we win something or we sell an asset worth hundreds of millions of dollars and Detroit becomes a huge market again after the City rebounds more. The HL is fine conference for us right now. Its not great and getting worse, but its ours. I'm not saying we can't win or can't move up but its not going to happen anytime soon.
ExcitedTitan wrote:If we promised or Davis thought there was a chance of changing conferences in the near and not so near future then they are all fools, assuming that change would be for a better conference. We have no money to move, don't offer a better conference much, if anything, and nobody wants us. Hate to break it to you but we are not Butler, Valpo, Loyola, Xavier, Dayton or Evansville. We are not even like Duquesne, LaSalle or St. Louis. We are more like Oklahoma City or Oral Roberts.
We draw 1000 fans on a good day. We rarely win our conference regular season ('98, '99) or championship ('94, '99,'12). That's 2 regular season and 3 HL tournament wins in 38 years, and 4 of those happened in a 5 year period.
1 conference championship and 0 regular season championships in the last 19 years.
Lets hold off on the conference move talk until we win something or we sell an asset worth hundreds of millions of dollars and Detroit becomes a huge market again after the City rebounds more. The HL is fine conference for us right now. Its not great and getting worse, but its ours. I'm not saying we can't win or can't move up but its not going to happen anytime soon.
ExcitedTitan wrote:Lets hold off on the conference move talk until we win something or we sell an asset worth hundreds of millions of dollars and Detroit becomes a huge market again after the City rebounds more.
NC Titan wrote:ExcitedTitan wrote:Lets hold off on the conference move talk until we win something or we sell an asset worth hundreds of millions of dollars and Detroit becomes a huge market again after the City rebounds more.
Detroit already is a huge market: 5.3 million people, #12 metro market in the country. We need a winning, competitive program that will attract players and fans. Then we move.
dennycrane wrote:Where will these 8 scholarship players come from, pct? I know that you know the importance of the spring recruitment period, which we completely missed during the 79 day hiring cycle. We also largely missed the same recruitment period in 2016, by the way. But, in fairness, there have been instances of late signings who had decent careers. Chris (?), the player from Chicago about 10 years ago, was an August signing who could play. Cole Long, a hard worker who has improved, was a somewhat late signing by BA. So there are exceptions.
Then there is the issue of getting admitted. We are not the ideal destination for that unclaimed juco player still out there who may have question marks on the academic side. Perhaps you would agree?
dennycrane wrote:Where will these 8 scholarship players come from, pct? I know that you know the importance of the spring recruitment period, which we completely missed during the 79 day hiring cycle. We also largely missed the same recruitment period in 2016, by the way. But, in fairness, there have been instances of late signings who had decent careers. Chris (?), the player from Chicago about 10 years ago, was an August signing who could play. Cole Long, a hard worker who has improved, was a somewhat late signing by BA. So there are exceptions.
Then there is the issue of getting admitted. We are not the ideal destination for that unclaimed juco player still out there who may have question marks on the academic side. Perhaps you would agree?
ptctitan wrote:Guards: McFolley, Davis, Knight, Holland
Forward: Long
Forward/Centers: Blackshear, Eichler
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