Utah Tech

[vbfan19]

Earlier this year I posted on the basketball forum that we should eliminate football and pour our resources into the university’s most visible program—basketball. I was widely panned for that.

One of the main arguments against this idea is that we would lose corporate sponsors and other bigger donors, which, if true, is a very good point.

But why are corporate sponsors going to pony up money to advertise to an empty stadium? Corporations are results oriented, and if they aren’t getting something back from their sponsorship, they’ll stop sponsoring. That’s the current path that the program is on.

Didn't the basketball team only average something like 2500 in attendance last season?
Football attendance is still far greater than that.

[clenz]

Ignoring how stupid it is to drop football


pretend it’s actually a good idea (it’s not but let’s play along with this horrible line of thinking)


Dropping football actually forces us to D2, which is ironic because that’s even too good a level for UNI at that point.

If you don’t understand why I said what I said, you shouldn’t be making any comments regarding UNI having football or not

[vbfan19]

if football were dropped, UNI would have to add (men's) futbol.

[Blue42]

Ignoring how stupid it is to drop football


pretend it’s actually a good idea (it’s not but let’s play along with this horrible line of thinking)


Dropping football actually forces us to D2, which is ironic because that’s even too good a level for UNI at that point.

If you don’t understand why I said what I said, you shouldn’t be making any comments regarding UNI having football or not

Agree it is stupid and not remotely on the radar. See $50 million campaign for the Dome.

[BCPanther]

Didn't the basketball team only average something like 2500 in attendance last season?
Football attendance is still far greater than that.

The number ended up being 3140 but none of those numbers felt right. Same with football the last couple years.

Saturday was sparse but that's a crowd we would've called 8000 before.

[run&blade]

Maybe NDSU SDSU and North Dakota will leave the Valley and UNI can dominate with the highly paid coach like in basketball once Creighton WSU and Loyola left the Valley

oh wait. Never mind.

[clenz]

Maybe NDSU SDSU and North Dakota will leave the Valley and UNI can dominate with the highly paid coach like in basketball once Creighton WSU and Loyola left the Valley

oh wait. Never mind.

Going after the coach who is 3rd in Valley history (nearly 120 years of existence) in wins, has the most COY awards in the history of the Valley, and has more tournament appearances than any coach in the Valley, more wins than any program in the Valley, etc. is a strange way to make your point even if the larger overall point isn't entirely wrong given the status of the football program budget

Even at that UNI would still be second to last in budget. We'd just go from 11th to 8th by losing 3 above us.

[run&blade]

Going after the coach who is 3rd in Valley history (nearly 120 years of existence) in wins, has the most COY awards in the history of the Valley, and has more tournament appearances than any coach in the Valley, more wins than any program in the Valley, etc. is a strange way to make your point even if the larger overall point isn't entirely wrong given the status of the football program budget

Even at that UNI would still be second to last in budget. We'd just go from 11th to 8th by losing 3 above us.

Sorry. Being the winningest coach in the valley is like having the most wins in FCS. Something wrong.


“Gonzaga of the Midwest”. Roflmao. They are not even the “Gonzaga of the Valley”.

[BCPanther]

Sorry. Being the winningest coach in the valley is like having the most wins in FCS. Something wrong.


“Gonzaga of the Midwest”. Roflmao. They are not even the “Gonzaga of the Valley”.

I've asked you this before and you've avoided it but....

What are your realistic expectations on a yearly basis for the basketball program? If two of three regular season titles isn't up to your standard, I'm not sure it's possible for this program to reach them.

[UNIAlum95]

I've asked you this before and you've avoided it but....

What are your realistic expectations on a yearly basis for the basketball program? If two of three regular season titles isn't up to your standard, I'm not sure it's possible for this program to reach them.

I was going to ask something similar. This is such an odd hill to die on given all of the other target rich opportunities with the whole athletic department. Are we supposed to fire Jake and believe that we are going to improve?

[run&blade]

Creighton and WSU left. Million dollar coach and a border line all American falls into his lap and he gets Zero NCAA appearances. Epic collapses is what we got. First 1 seed to lose opening round.

Nobody would have thought that was good going into Green’s freshman year.

NOBODY.

I say suck it up and go to Iowa and ISU and play them. Zero excitement for uni and attendance shows it. Darn luck if 20 students are in the stands and that is no exaggeration.

Entire department needs to be gutted. Until it is UNI athletics are basically flatlining.

maybe UNI needs to join the Summit League if the Valley is too expensive.

[BCPanther]

Creighton and WSU left. Million dollar coach and a border line all American falls into his lap and he gets Zero NCAA appearances. Epic collapses is what we got. First 1 seed to lose opening round.

Nobody would have thought that was good going into Green’s freshman year.

NOBODY.

I say suck it up and go to Iowa and ISU and play them. Zero excitement for uni and attendance shows it. Darn luck if 20 students are in the stands and that is no exaggeration.

Entire department needs to be gutted. Until it is UNI athletics are basically flatlining.

maybe UNI needs to join the Summit League if the Valley is too expensive.

So, you don't have an answer, you just want to ***** the exact same ***** that you ***** with every post. Got it.

My god your Ben Jacobson jealousy gets old.

[Panther Fan]

Creighton and WSU left. Million dollar coach and a border line all American falls into his lap and he gets Zero NCAA appearances. Epic collapses is what we got. First 1 seed to lose opening round.

Nobody would have thought that was good going into Green’s freshman year.

NOBODY.

I say suck it up and go to Iowa and ISU and play them. Zero excitement for uni and attendance shows it. Darn luck if 20 students are in the stands and that is no exaggeration.

Entire department needs to be gutted. Until it is UNI athletics are basically flatlining.

maybe UNI needs to join the Summit League if the Valley is too expensive.

Not even sure why I respond but I don't know if Iowa and Iowa State are even willing to play us, even if it's just a road game agreement.

And you must have missed the MSU and Loyola games last year. There were a few more than 20 students there.

[BCPanther]

Not even sure why I respond but I don't know if Iowa and Iowa State are even willing to play us, even if it's just a road game agreement.

And you must have missed the MSU and Loyola games last year. There were a few more than 20 students there.

There are far more there every night. He just saw it during break and decided that's how it is.

[FOTY]

Oh, and some kid spilled his popcorn last week. It was still on the floor in case we wanted a snack this weekend.

Update… the popcorn was still on the floor when we arrived for the MSU game. I don’t know if we should thank the AD for keeping the floor popcorn available or ask for a broom.

Seriously though, how has there been no attempt to clean the floors in the stands between Oct 8th and 22nd? Anyone willing to take bets on its status in 2 weeks?