Bradley reporter impressed with UNI

[jnutt]

Re: Bradley reporter impressed with UNI

Thanks for sharing that.

UNI is a model, but a difficult to replicate model. The confluence of the right coach(es) and the right building at the right time in history is hard to pull off twice or elsewhere.

It's easy to take 20+ wins for granted. The entire state is in a major upswing right now, unless you wear blue.

it's cool they hired Greg Lansing...oh wait, nevermind.

[BCPanther]

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But seriously.....why DID they invite us?

Eldon Miller.

[BCPanther]

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BC will not like bball being third fiddle....

Good article

I am currently gathering a posse...

[Born-a-Panther]

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That's a great article and a great reminder. Perspective is a good thing. Proud to be a Panther.

[northwest iowa panther]

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Our weather is one of the reasons we no longer play baseball and why the Big Ten (12,14) are considering late summer/fall conference schedule. Good thing our basketball came alive because dropping baseball didn't sit we'll with our other conference brethren. That's why the next school in will be in a warmer climate and be good at baseball/basketball.

[Khan4Cats]

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The MVC was also in a big time negative phase. I read somewhere where the conference's RPI at the time was in the 20s. Not good. The conference had just lost Tulsa a few years earlier, and they were very solid when they left. We caught the MVC when they were vulnerable, so to speak. Different timing, and UNI probably never joins. Give the AD and Eldon credit for jumping at the chance and executing a major upgrade.

Tulsa was still a part of the league when we joined. Our first MVC game was at Tulsa, I believe we won over the Tubby Smith coached team. We were the 10th team in to the league after they had dropped to 8 with departures of West Texas State (1986) and New Mexico State (1983) and the addition of Missouri State the year before us brought them back to 9.

Evansville was brought in to the league in 1994 in the preparation for Tulsa leaving in 1996.

[SteinPizza]

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Tulsa was still a part of the league when we joined. Our first MVC game was at Tulsa, I believe we won over the Tubby Smith coached team. We were the 10th team in to the league after they had dropped to 8 with departures of West Texas State (1986) and New Mexico State (1983) and the addition of Missouri State the year before us brought them back to 9.

Evansville was brought in to the league in 1994 in the preparation for Tulsa leaving in 1996.

I was going from memory, but thanks for correcting me. I could've sworn Tulsa left earlier. I'm pretty sure my memory isn't off about the Valley being in a down period. It's not like we joined in an uptick.

[Newsbreaker]

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Our weather is one of the reasons we no longer play baseball and why the Big Ten (12,14) are considering late summer/fall conference schedule. Good thing our basketball came alive because dropping baseball didn't sit we'll with our other conference brethren. That's why the next school in will be in a warmer climate and be good at baseball/basketball.

Baseball season in the Dakotas runs from July 4th through July 6th. Luckily, you can play 24 hours a day during that stretch.