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Where were the students??

lightsout said:
Looks like TB is asking the same question about students on facebook now.

Taylor Brown
I wish we had more support from our student body...! Like y wouldn't u wanna come to a BASKETBALL game! This is the year to come!!! Don't miss out!
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For some reason this gets me fired up. Kind of like when Egolf wasn't happy about some boos at home last year.

Why might students not want to come? Because we lose to D-II schools at home and have played in the 4/5 game so exclusively it seems to have become out birthright.

There are ways of phrasing things that come across better, at least to me. While student support was woeful at the exhibition game (Hardcores aside, as always) I don't appreciate this current group of players calling the students or fans out. You want better support? WIN.

* gets off soap box and stops beating a dead horse*
 
When I was a student...yeh I know who really remembers back that far...


You went to the games for something to do and hang out with friends...its cheap enough for students and its their school...but...

its the ME time...
 
identity problem

identity problem

I think BU suffers from an identity crisis. Not to get all psychological on ya'll but really.

They've hired a former star as coach. Results have been warm, hot, cold.

They've taken on some talented but emotionally flawed players.

They've turned over one good AD for another with no measurable effect.

They've built new facilities that promise to raise the bar. And??

All this is great but what really matters is spirit and attitude. If you don't have drive you don't have wins. What they really need to do is create an exciting atmosphere where depth of feeling and striving for excellence are paramount. They've spent lots of money but haven't succeeded in creating this. Until they do??¦
 
Rusty 54 said:
For some reason this gets me fired up. Kind of like when Egolf wasn't happy about some boos at home last year.

Why might students not want to come? Because we lose to D-II schools at home and have played in the 4/5 game so exclusively it seems to have become out birthright.

There are ways of phrasing things that come across better, at least to me. While student support was woeful at the exhibition game (Hardcores aside, as always) I don't appreciate this current group of players calling the students or fans out. You want better support? WIN.

* gets off soap box and stops beating a dead horse*
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I don't see how at all this is calling students out. To me it's asking students to come and at the end I like how he says 'This is the year to come' I just don't even put this on the same level of what WE said last year about fans booing.

On a similar note, I think they should have players recruit for games like Greeks recruit for rush. Why not have the players go to dorms and ask people to go to games, and stop by the cafeterias, or walk around Markin. BU promotes a small school atmosphere, and I think sometimes the athletes segregate themselves from the rest of the student body. Personally asking people to come support them would be a huge step towards bringing the entire campus together to help support a common cause. WINNING.
 
Future Walk-On said:
Can someone link me to these WE comments from last year? I was around but must have forgotten or never heard them.
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I don't think there's a link anymore it was a twitter comment I believe was taken down. Something along the lines of him being upset that people were booing after they blew a lead at home.
 
I think the current administration and the athletic department are pleased with the support and crowds that BU gets overall for its men's basketball program. At some point though, the older fans are not going to be around forever, and the younger fans/young alumni/current students are going to have to pick up the slack.

If you want to equate it, Bradley is a lot like a Lincoln Town Car. It has a lot of history, has done fairy well in the past and recent past and right now you kinda know what you're gonna get. Plenty of people still buy it, but it's either corporations (like the Town Car is used in fleets) or older fans. At some point though, they are going to have to get younger when the pool of older fans dwindles.
 
theBUer said:
I think the current administration and the athletic department are pleased with the support and crowds that BU gets overall for its men's basketball program. At some point though, the older fans are not going to be around forever, and the younger fans/young alumni/current students are going to have to pick up the slack.

If you want to equate it, Bradley is a lot like a Lincoln Town Car. It has a lot of history, has done fairy well in the past and recent past and right now you kinda know what you're gonna get. Plenty of people still buy it, but it's either corporations (like the Town Car is used in fleets) or older fans. At some point though, they are going to have to get younger when the pool of older fans dwindles.
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Haha, pretty good analogy. We need to transform ourselves like Cadillac did, and make BU more like a CTS - Practical, but still a heck of a lot of fun to drive (especially if it's a V ;) ).
 
amckillip said:
Haha, pretty good analogy. We need to transform ourselves like Cadillac did, and make BU more like a CTS - Practical, but still a heck of a lot of fun to drive (especially if it's a V ;) ).
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I'd prefer not to be a GM product... I like the Lincoln analogy better.
 
unbekannt said:
I'd prefer not to be a GM product... I like the Lincoln analogy better.
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The Town Car analogy can be both good and bad, but you also want to be a product that can be relevant to people of all age groups. This is where I feel BU has lost the younger demographic. Winning takes care of everything, but you can't expect a student to take time out of finding what the older fans already know.

If you want it all in perspective, KU or Duke are like Maserati's. Both places are hard to get a ticket because of cost or lack of vehicles (just like a car), seats are limited (the cars Maserati makes are not mass-produced), coaches are paid quite a bit of money and they are regulars in March Madness.
 
Well, I'm walking today and out on the quad are people yelling into a megaphone asking if folks were going to the soccer game. He then went on to mention that men's basketball is playing down at Carver.

I heard a student say, "I'm not going to go to any games, and instead will just sit and watch TV."

Wow, even Georgia Tech (which is more of a "geek" school than Bradley) still packs the house for football and basketball games.

But at least we pack Markin, and we swept ISU in volleyball! :)
 
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