Hoop Fan wrote:DiamondM75 wrote:Not to mention, this Athletic Department is doing everything possible to kill the basketball atmosphere. I am so sick and tired of commercials and stupid half time putting contest. This program needs all the excitement it can generate. We need dancing girls (not prostitotes), music, entertainment, entertainment. This is show business, not a paid programming commercial.
I have never attended a more boring sporting event as the last two home games. Yes, the students are not there, the cheerleaders are not there and the pom girls are not there, but there can still be excitement created in Moody. Are we so financially strapped that we have to sell commercials during critical time outs that just absolutely kill any and all excitement that is starting to generate. Get someone to "correograph" the basketball atmostphere in Moody, and get the excitement back.
I am an avid SMU fan and supporter, but believe me, if this is the product that SMU is presenting, I can see why we have no attendance at basketball games. This is just boring, boring, boring. I don't even want to attend these games. If you want the Dallas area sports fan, local basketball players and coaches to attend, you better add some excitement to the program. Times a wasting and fast.
so true. you are spot on with every point you make. sorry folks, but this is noticeably different and worse than 5 years ago at Moody and with this program. we are not comparing to atmosphere at Allen Fieldhouse. As Kinzer said too, the schedule is a joke. I don't care how young your team is, the schedule is pitiful and terrible for SMU basketball. you can play some cupcakes, but you have to mix in a few decent home games. We are not fighting for an NCAA bid this year or anything else, so tell me why we have to play 12 cupcakes instead of 10. Have a home game that is worth a damn and gets the players and the fans up for the game. Our conference schedule is fine, but boring as heck too.
While it may be of little consolation, and everyone is entitled to their own opinion, the schedule is designed to mature with the team. It is extremely reasonable to expect a few to several more decent mid-major teams on the schedule next year, and more the year after that.
On the subject of playing big name programs, the basketball culture seems to conflict with the teams "business model" if you will. In this day and age, it is difficult to schedule big name programs for home and homes, regardless of the stature or quality of the team. It was pointed out to me how few away games teams like Duke, UNC play away from home, even if it is a hand-me win. This is speaking outside of the neutral-site tournaments of course. How Kentucky and Houston scheduled a home and home, I have no idea, I'd love to know.
Some big name teams would support a neutral site game such as, say. American Airlines arena. However, the difficulties with this is that it's hard to drum up financial commitment for renovation to the coliseum when you are playing home games away from your own home. That is some of the prevailing logic.
Again, these points of thought are all debatable, I'm sure. I'm also stepping pretty far outside my own personal comfort level of knowledge here in terms of basketball. But this is what I've 'learned'. The progression of the schedule is designed to coincide with the maturation of the team, and as I think most around here know, Mr. Doherty prefers to obtain home and home series, and not pay-for-pound away trips.
I also found it interesting that he wants to 'start' his own Christmas tournament here in Dallas.
Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 11:53 am
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