Looking at 2015-2016

[Panthers to the Bone]

Re: Looking at 2015-2016

MWC/MVC challenge games would not involve guarantee money. Keep in mind that teams who are in the same exempt event can play up to 4 games. Some tourneys like Cancun give teams 2 home games and 2 neutral games. Others like Diamond Head are 3 neutral games. That leaves the possibility of a max of one additional game available. Remember that UNI bought Toledo as the 4th game of the Atlantis tourney. Anyone want to see if any of the teams in the Diamond Head tourney played an additional game on a home court against another member of the field?

[Gboom23]

Re: Looking at 2015-2016

http://www.abqjournal.com/560225/spo...-is-tough.html



BTW, Illinois State is now rumored to be playing at San Diego State next year. So maybe these games are all part of the Challenge after all.

This isn't a dig against you, but something doesn't smell right here. Why would we be getting paid if this was part of the MVC/MWC challenge? Some pieces of the puzzle appear to be missing.

[ubuntuCAT]

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I really don't know the market for basketball games but is $100k pretty high? especially for a non power school.

[achrist70]

Re: Looking at 2015-2016

I really don't know the market for basketball games but is $100k pretty high? especially for a non power school.

Seems like a pretty good pay day when you think how much less travel costs are for basketball.

[Panthers to the Bone]

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$100k is about right. Keep in mind that UNM plays in a major conference type arena. The Pit is 15k I believe. They can afford it, especially for an upper level non BCS school. That's why it's so hard to get good games bought into UNI. If you have to pay $75k, where does that money come from? If UNI has 5000 paying attendance at $15/tix average, that doesn't leave anything left for the athletic department. If Panther fans want more home games, you need to have more people buy season and individual tickets. Which is why I started the thread about people coming together to split season tickets. If everyone who goes to 4-5 games each year would just split a season tix package with another 1-2 fans, we would see a better product, fan experience, create a more hostile environment, and create a buzz within the community.

[KingCat]

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Some interesting news for ya. Rumor has it Big E from Evansville is heading home to play on their national team next year. Also Reggie of Illinois State might be leaving for Minnesota. That could really help us considering our bigs will be young next year.

[06panther10]

The Big E rumor has been going around all season. I havent heard the Lynch rumor, though. That would be a crushing blow to Illinois State.

[Kyle]

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If true, this is bad news for the Valley and in turn bad news for UNI.

[panther1]

Re: Looking at 2015-2016

Some interesting news for ya. Rumor has it Big E from Evansville is heading home to play on their national team next year. Also Reggie of Illinois State might be leaving for Minnesota. That could really help us considering our bigs will be young next year.

These would be huge blows to the conference as a whole. We need good players so that we get back to being a multi bid league again.

[DownGoesKansas]

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These would be huge blows to the conference as a whole. We need good players so that we get back to being a multi bid league again.

Yep need other teams to be good in the non-con; then we need to take care of business in the conference season.

[BCPanther]

Re: Looking at 2015-2016

The Valley is turning into a developmental league for the Big 10. It's a bit troubling.

The Valley can't get any better if our better players leave after two years.

[sivert]

Re: Looking at 2015-2016

Thought I'd look at this.

http://m.espn.go.com/ncb/story?storyId=10702122&src=desktop

http://m.kusports.com/news/2014/dec/27/alarming-trend-number-college-basketball-transfers/

Interesting that transfers are up.

[Kyle]

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If this trend continues, I wonder if mid major programs will begin to get a little more restrictive with their release terms.

Just off the top of my head I can think of about a half dozen top 200 type kids who have left the MVC in the past 5 years.

-Nic Moore
-Ravonte Rice
-Gene Teague
-Dantiel Daniels
-Anthony Booker
-Kevin Dillard
-Zach Lofton

[Kyle]

Re: Looking at 2015-2016

Also, this is exactly why Jake was planning to make it priority to keep a spring scholly open. If you can't beat em, join em.

[06panther10]

If this trend continues, I wonder if mid major programs will begin to get a little more restrictive with their release terms.



Just off the top of my head I can think of about a half dozen top 200 type kids who have left the MVC in the past 5 years.



-Nic Moore

-Ravonte Rice

-Gene Teague

-Dantiel Daniels

-Anthony Booker

-Kevin Dillard

-Zach Lofton

-Nick Zeitsloft
-Joey King
-Marcus Marshall
-Sam Maniacalco
-Jon Ekey