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Post by brewtownbrian on Mar 25, 2010 8:09:54 GMT -6
I know that, but thanks. I thought they were trying to do away with all hyphen related names and go by just "Milwaukee." Oh well. Occasional slip-ups aside, ask the coaches whether they prefer Milwaukee or UWM. I don't have access to ask the coaches what they prefer...what's the answer? |
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Post by ghostofdylan on Mar 25, 2010 8:38:59 GMT -6
Access is easy. All you have to do is walk up to one of them and they'll answer your question.
For the record, they always answer their phones, "Milwaukee basketball."
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Post by brewtownbrian on Mar 25, 2010 9:04:31 GMT -6
Access is easy. All you have to do is walk up to one of them and they'll answer your question. For the record, they always answer their phones, "Milwaukee basketball." Thanks for the insight dylan. I'm never on the east side or around campus, so unless I made a special trip to campus to seek one of them out and ask (seems somewhat stalkerish)...I wouldn't have known the answer. Although I would have guessed it was, "Milwaukee." |
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Post by ghostofdylan on Mar 25, 2010 9:43:34 GMT -6
Brian:
My response certainly wasn't meant to be condescending in the least and this action wouldn't be "stalkerish" at all. This is not an "exclusive" program, but an inclusive one.
I can't emphasize enough how charming it is to follow a team where you don't have to pay $250 for 20 minutes of the coach's time or feel privileged just to have him squeeze your hand. Here, you can walk right up to head coach, tell him you follow our program and ask him how things are going and he'll give you an honest answer. Really.
Say what you will about strategies, philosophies, recruiting or whatever else, but our coaches are genuinely nice people.
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Post by PantherU on Mar 25, 2010 9:51:43 GMT -6
Milwaukee. Here's why.
When they are recruiting, if you call a kid in Oregon and tell him you're from UWM basketball, where the hell is that? Wyoming?
You tell them Milwaukee, they know several things. 1, it's a city. 2, they know where it is. 3, they know the Brewers and Bucks, so they know there are pro teams and there's something to do. 4, the name UWM or UW-Milwaukee groups us in with hyphen schools like Maryland-Eastern Shore and Colorado State-San Pueblo. 5. Milwaukee groups us with schools like Cincinnati, Louisville, Miami, Pitt.
It would be one thing if our acronym were well known and we went only by that. UNLV, UAB, UCLA all get away with it because people know them by their acronym. Many other schools that prefer their acronym have difficulty. UCF, UIC, they all end up getting spelled out - Central Florida, Illinois-Chicago.
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Post by coacheinerson on Mar 25, 2010 11:35:01 GMT -6
The issue here is that your most successful years were under the "UWM/UW-Milwaukee/Wisconsin-Milwaukee" name.
I moved to Iowa and recruit players from California to New York. If you talk to people from other states and tell them you went to "Milwaukee" they have a puzzled look or immediately respond with "Marquette?"
If you say "UW-Milwaukee," they understand or remember the tournament runs.
Until this team gets in the national spotlight under "Milwaukee," that'll be the case. While you want your program known as Milwaukee, it's still important to make it clear to recruits and other coaches around the country that you're from UWM, because that's what they know you as.
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Post by PantherU on Mar 25, 2010 11:56:13 GMT -6
Which is why we need to go under one brand, because we could have avoided all this confusion a long time ago by picking the brand and sticking to it. There are a lot of people that don't know us either way.
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Post by ghostofdylan on Mar 26, 2010 8:51:55 GMT -6
On the Doug and Mike Show today, hosted by Chuck Carlson, Rob said that we begin a home-and-home series next season with Northern Iowa ... starting here. The Panthers, coached by Ben Jacobson, will lose guard Ali Farokhmanesh, center Jordan Eglseder and forward Adam Koch, the Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Year, off this year's Sweet 16 team. Go Panthers! Both of them.
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Post by jhart05 on Mar 26, 2010 9:13:04 GMT -6
Nice!!
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Post by uwmplanner on Mar 26, 2010 9:23:58 GMT -6
On the Doug and Mike Show today, hosted by Chuck Carlson, Rob said that we begin a home-and-home series next season with Northern Iowa ... starting here. The Panthers, coached by Ben Jacobson, will lose guard Ali Farokhmanesh, center Jordan Eglseder and forward Adam Koch, the Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Year, off this year's Sweet 16 team. Go Panthers! Both of them. That is good news. I was at the UNI game a few years ago at the cell. Koch and Eglseder were Freshman and I think they won by 5 or 6. |
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Post by ghostofdylan on Mar 26, 2010 9:27:24 GMT -6
Very good game. Witnessed by perhaps 1,500. Northern Iowa insisted that the game be played at 2 p.m. on a Sunday, and as a result it coincided with a Packers game. Appreciate the game from UNI, but would really like to settle the score. We had helped them open their new building the year before.
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Post by PantherU on Mar 26, 2010 9:29:20 GMT -6
I think every coach in charge of scheduling in the Horizon League should call Syracuse next week and ask for a home-and-home.
Just to piss Boeheim off. And it would be hilarious.
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Post by Pounce Needs Pals on Mar 26, 2010 11:54:47 GMT -6
What is the Doug and Mike Show? Who is Chuck Carlson? I would guess that is AM1250.
So the Milwaukee Panthers in 2010-11 season, they have Northern Iowa, Marquette and Bowling Green at home.
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Post by Pounce Needs Pals on Mar 26, 2010 11:55:58 GMT -6
I think every coach in charge of scheduling in the Horizon League should call Syracuse next week and ask for a home-and-home. Just to piss Boeheim off. And it would be hilarious. That is too funny!!  after CSU half court shot last season as well |
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Post by PantherU on Mar 26, 2010 13:00:14 GMT -6
Doug and Mike is 1250. I'm assuming they were out and Carlson was running the show.
That's two appearances for Jeter over the last couple days. Good.
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