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Post by Hack on Nov 23, 2010 23:19:17 GMT -6
Wow I'm glad I couldn't make it to this game tonight. If I had to drive back to GB after that performance I probably would have killed someone. There's a dead hobo at the Allenton exit along Hwy. 41. Took care of that for you. |
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Post by Hack on Nov 23, 2010 23:24:55 GMT -6
As far as the game goes ... nothing much to add to what has been said. Very poor performance in all facets, and I'm sure the players and coaching staff know that.
This team is going to have its stellar performances like Niagara and its clunkers like tonight. It's been the M.O. of this program for the last 3-4 years ... so I'm not going to say the season is at a loss or that they won't recover from this. They will and will probably have a successful season of around 20 wins and the upper half of the conference.
Just frustrating that what could've been a fun, memorable night was completely wasted, and a set-back in gaining support for an on-campus arena.
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Post by tyrunner0097 on Nov 23, 2010 23:26:44 GMT -6
Just want to say this, on behalf of all the UWM fans at the game, to all of the players. To quote Douglas Neidermeier(sic) from Animal House : YOU'RE A GODDAMN DISGRACE!!!
BTW: I WAS daring that Western Mich invader to hit me...And I wish he did!
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Post by Hack on Nov 23, 2010 23:31:31 GMT -6
Our shooting was just abysmal start to finish. And most of the misses weren't off by a whole lot. Really? Enough bricks were laid tonight that we now have a new on-campus arena. |
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Post by ghostofdylan on Nov 23, 2010 23:57:10 GMT -6
So Hack drove five hours round-trip to see the game tonight and several hundred stooges couldn't cross the street or make the drive from West Allis or Greenfield to make the game? Are we in the horse-and-buggy days like the WIAA?
There were 64 students at the game, a few dozen of whom even bothered to stand. I don't know what to say anymore.
Boy, that new on-campus arena will sure be a magic elixir to all that ails the program.
And about that voucher idea ...
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Post by Hack on Nov 24, 2010 0:00:12 GMT -6
So Hack drove five hours round-trip to see the game tonight ... 3 hours round-trip, 2 hours for the abortion of a game. Highlight of the evening was a Qdoba burrito beforehand. |
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Post by PantherU on Nov 24, 2010 0:23:58 GMT -6
Admit it though, had we blown them out by 30 the highlight would have been that Qdoba burrito...mmmmm...
Echo most of what is said here. Except for flipperclark, who seems to have a certain dislike for me.
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Post by ricestillfumbled on Nov 24, 2010 0:30:26 GMT -6
I (student) took 2 friends (not fans) with me today, I said I don't know for sure if they will be able to get in but then they get tickets and find its about 1/4 full. They will give me sh*t for this all year, and will very likely never go to another game this year.
To defend the students...kids are excited for break, I wouldn't expect casual fans to stay an extra night to see western michigan
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2010 0:36:38 GMT -6
Where was the sell-out, students, team. This was bad............... saw this coming at the N. Iowa game... I went to the Marquette/South Dakota game first, then the Milwaukee?Northern Iowa game later.... Talk about 2 different worlds!! they call themselves the "Klotsche Crazies"  ? what a bunch of lack of respect, know nothing about what good basketball IDIOTS. This Milwaukee team is average at best... the coaching staff is below average(yet the highest paid in the HL), and the student fans(all 12 of them) think their team is actually good... what a joke! It starts at the top... and there is no leadership in that Athletic Department(literally) and no one is being held accountable. Wake up Jimmy and the boys... it is only going to get worse!!! This is the type of crap the entire athletics program, especially the basketball team has to fight back against. Tonight did not help that what so ever and in fact it may have made it worse. BTW - a big FU goes out to you flipper clark, you are just another troll who thinks they know what they are talking about. If you want to call out our lackadaisical, lazy student body that doesn't have any school spirit then fine but calling out the students who actually support the program is a big punch to the stomach and I take offense to it. |
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Post by milwsport on Nov 24, 2010 0:54:26 GMT -6
I heard someone wonder aloud why we are "giving scholarships if this is the best we can do." He then went on to say UWM could use the scholarship money for the on campus arena that" the students will not come to" and at least have something to show for it. That's how bad it was.
I'm not giving up on them but they have to find a way to play at the level we saw on Saturday on consistent basis.
As it was the team looked unprepared, unmotivated, undisciplined and over matched in every phase of a game they should have won.
I won't even get into what I thought about the 50 or so students who showed up. I give them credit but the student attendance proves what many have been saying all along, the answer is not an on campus arena.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2010 1:03:18 GMT -6
This game pushed me to the thinking that until the general student body starts showing some school spirit and starts attending games, no way should there be a new on campus arena built. Why reward apathy and disinterest?
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Post by PantherU on Nov 24, 2010 1:21:51 GMT -6
This game pushed me to the thinking that until the general student body starts showing some school spirit and starts attending games, no way should there be a new on campus arena built. Why reward apathy and disinterest? Take a step back, read what you wrote, and then try again. |
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Post by PantherU on Nov 24, 2010 1:51:28 GMT -6
Message boards tend to be overzealous in both directions. Saturday night, a lot of people felt we could take on anybody; tonight, a lot of people want to jump off the Maryland bridge (and sprain an ankle).
This was by no means a good game, or a "good effort." This hasn't been a spectacular season, or even a particularly good one. But we're six games in. Let's take a step back and breathe. Will we get blown out by Marquette? I don't know. Depends how much the team wants it.
Hopefully the next couple days off help them re-evaluate what they want out of this season.
I do know this:
Don't bring this on-campus arena into it. From the people I talked to, Sandburg was a mass exodus at about 4 p.m. today. Our marketing failed. Don't hang the new arena from a noose because of one night.
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Post by ghostofdylan on Nov 24, 2010 4:06:58 GMT -6
Listless Panthers fall to Broncos in 'setback' game www.jsonline.com/sports/panthers/110302539.htmlTwenty-nine percent from the field. Six of 29 on 3s. 56.5 percent on free throws. Seventeen turnovers. Can even this message board overreact to a performance this bad? As for the students, I'm not sure there's one other than Dunne, Jimmy and a handful more who made the trips to Fargo and Edwardsville last season more excited about the program than some of us who've been out of school for 20 years. That's very disconcerting. This exodus to which some refer? Many are exiting to local suburbs, for Pete's sake! Couldn't wait until Thursday to get to Grandma's house? |
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Post by uwm97 on Nov 24, 2010 6:30:41 GMT -6
I don't know Dylan, that mass exodus to Racine, Germantown, Brookfield and Port Washington is a tough thing to overcome.
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? what a bunch of lack of respect, know nothing about what good basketball IDIOTS. This Milwaukee team is average at best... the coaching staff is below average(yet the highest paid in the HL), and the student fans(all 12 of them) think their team is actually good... what a joke! It starts at the top... and there is no leadership in that Athletic Department(literally) and no one is being held accountable. Wake up Jimmy and the boys... it is only going to get worse!!!