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Post by Hack on May 3, 2012 8:11:25 GMT -6
Our team may be young and our depth may be an issue, but we've got a ton of talent and a lot of size. Off-season and preseason conditioning (and just how much of it) will need to be addressed. We all saw what injuries did to this team this year. |
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Post by ghostofdylan on Jun 9, 2012 9:38:39 GMT -6
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Post by Super King on Jun 16, 2012 3:26:01 GMT -6
Not related to anything, but the author's photo on that story is high-larious
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Post by PantherU on Jun 16, 2012 9:55:54 GMT -6
Not related to anything, but the author's photo on that story is high-larious Bro-tacular |
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Post by milwsport on Jun 26, 2012 23:23:46 GMT -6
I have been away from the Board for awhile. Seems all the news I hear about UWM Basketball is bad. Departing players, Butler leaving the HL (which will badly hurt our RPI as a league and as a school) and now the move back to the Klotsche.
I don't hold out much hope for next season being a banner year. I think Rob is a good coach but now he has to contend with replacing a bunch of players by convincing talented athletes that they should want to play college ball in a HS gym.
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Post by ghostofdylan on Jun 28, 2012 12:36:54 GMT -6
Now he has to contend with replacing a bunch of players by convincing talented athletes that they should want to play college ball in a HS gym. Unless, of course, he's armed with the knowledge that within four years they'll be playing in a much better on-campus facility. |
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Post by uwmfansince1997 on Jun 28, 2012 12:39:28 GMT -6
Tough sell either way it goes.
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Post by milwsport on Jun 30, 2012 14:46:37 GMT -6
I guess they expect him to say, "come play for us in a sub standard HS gym and a year or two after your done, you can come and see us play in a new facility."
Somehow, I don't t hink that will be very effective
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Post by PantherU on Jun 30, 2012 17:58:29 GMT -6
I guess they expect him to say, "come play for us in a sub standard HS gym and a year or two after your done, you can come and see us play in a new facility." Somehow, I don't t hink that will be very effective No doubt recruiting is going to take a hit if we don't fill up the Klotsche Center. I know it sounds weird, but if they fill up the Klotsche Center, I think some of our problems that have persisted forever will go away. By that I mean that if 3,400 fans fill the KC at every game, the atmosphere is going to improve. The students who run chants will have a lot easier time running 20 rows of bleachers instead of 3,000 like at the Wisconsin game. If they get creative and make fun, easy chants and dances that students coming in will enjoy, they will keep coming back and everyone will assume this is how it is. It would take some work from students who have been going to games for years and they'd have to stick to it, but the incoming class of freshmen would just copy what those up front are doing. If it's fun and easy, then you've created a fun atmosphere that people will want to be a part of. The Klotsche Center has been a very difficult road venue for many teams. UIC may have been playing bad, but the students were loud and all over them from the word go. Part of the reason they got back in it was because the students chilled out and they were allowed to mount a comeback in a quiet arena that was too complacent with a 20-point lead. Recruiting may suffer, but a packed and loud KC is a better venue than the Cell 1/4 full. Let's not forget that most schools "below" us on the totem pole are in facilities that only seat 2,000 or even less. IUPUI only seats about 1,500. So our recruiting may fall off a bit, but the Cell was never a huge selling point for recruits in the first place. I'm like everyone else and I think that any extended period of time (3 years max) in the Klotsche Center without shovels in the ground for a new facility would be extremely detrimental to the program. That said, if the "renovations" of the KC were to the level of the Gentile Arena - that is, if they dropped the floor to ground level to accommodate for a full-size facility and built it from there - I'd be OK with that too. But that would only take an offseason. I hope that within the next two months we'll see a full Capital fundraising plan laid out to build a brand new practice facility and then a plan to either turn the Klotsche Center into a legitimate major D-I facility (top-8 conference worthy) or build a new one completely from scratch. July 16th at the Golf Outing is going to be a very interesting day. I hope many of you attending bring plenty of questions and concerns forward to the department so they know exactly what is expected of them. |
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Post by Pounce Needs Pals on Jun 30, 2012 20:40:25 GMT -6
In recruiting, did any of them really get a trip down to the Cell.
Players like playing in full building. 2,800 to a sell-out at the KC, looks better than 4,500 at the Cell. That's why people playing at Duke looks great. It only seats around 9,000.
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Post by ghostofdylan on Jul 30, 2012 9:17:31 GMT -6
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Post by Pounce Needs Pals on Aug 16, 2012 14:24:00 GMT -6
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Post by ghostofdylan on Aug 28, 2012 8:53:51 GMT -6
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Post by gman2 on Aug 28, 2012 21:07:55 GMT -6
I'm usually no good at predictions, but I would say Green Bay #1 and Valpo #2.
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Post by blackcatinorange on Aug 28, 2012 21:26:08 GMT -6
Now he has to contend with replacing a bunch of players by convincing talented athletes that they should want to play college ball in a HS gym. Unless, of course, he's armed with the knowledge that within four years they'll be playing in a much better on-campus facility. Within 4 years? Really? I was guessing more like 14...... |
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