There’s a group of students that made the trip and has been trying to get the administration to establish them as a student organization but they’ve been giving them trouble. The desire from the students is there but things are moving extremely slow. Small changes like teaching the dang fight song at orientation (with would take 5min) have been vetoed by the people in charge. BR and marketing have been working with younger people and passionate students and the desire is just not there from an administrative standpoint. No student wants to go to a school with no spirit, so trust me, students are doing all they can. Maybe someone with more influence (season ticket holders, sponsors, Paladin club members) can have a little chat with guys like Dwight Covington who from what I’ve heard have been a hurdle to some student-appealing marketing ideas in the past... I just don’t think he’d take it from the students.DungeonRealm wrote: ↑Mon Mar 05, 2018 10:28 pmOne thing that needs to happen is the Furman administration needs to do a much better job of getting more Furman fans and students to the SoCon tournament which will help our team out. The fandom for the Paladins at the tournament this year was extremely disappointing. I would like to see the administration at Furman finally act like they give a damn and do something to generate better attendance at home and at the tournament, right now they basically don't do anything at all!
We need new blood and younger people involved in the marketing and ticket sales of Furman basketball, make it incentive driven!
FU03times wrote: ↑Mon Mar 05, 2018 10:53 pmThere’s a group of students that made the trip and has been trying to get the administration to establish them as a student organization but they’ve been giving them trouble. The desire from the students is there but things are moving extremely slow. Small changes like teaching the dang fight song at orientation (with would take 5min) have been vetoed by the people in charge. BR and marketing have been working with younger people and passionate students and the desire is just not there from an administrative standpoint. No student wants to go to a school with no spirit, so trust me, students are doing all they can. Maybe someone with more influence (season ticket holders, sponsors, Paladin club members) can have a little chat with guys like Dwight Covington who from what I’ve heard have been a hurdle to some student-appealing marketing ideas in the past... I just don’t think he’d take it from the students.DungeonRealm wrote: ↑Mon Mar 05, 2018 10:28 pmOne thing that needs to happen is the Furman administration needs to do a much better job of getting more Furman fans and students to the SoCon tournament which will help our team out. The fandom for the Paladins at the tournament this year was extremely disappointing. I would like to see the administration at Furman finally act like they give a damn and do something to generate better attendance at home and at the tournament, right now they basically don't do anything at all!
We need new blood and younger people involved in the marketing and ticket sales of Furman basketball, make it incentive driven!
If true, that's disappointing to hear to say the least.FU03times wrote: ↑Mon Mar 05, 2018 10:53 pmThere’s a group of students that made the trip and has been trying to get the administration to establish them as a student organization but they’ve been giving them trouble. The desire from the students is there but things are moving extremely slow. Small changes like teaching the dang fight song at orientation (with would take 5min) have been vetoed by the people in charge. BR and marketing have been working with younger people and passionate students and the desire is just not there from an administrative standpoint. No student wants to go to a school with no spirit, so trust me, students are doing all they can. Maybe someone with more influence (season ticket holders, sponsors, Paladin club members) can have a little chat with guys like Dwight Covington who from what I’ve heard have been a hurdle to some student-appealing marketing ideas in the past... I just don’t think he’d take it from the students.DungeonRealm wrote: ↑Mon Mar 05, 2018 10:28 pmOne thing that needs to happen is the Furman administration needs to do a much better job of getting more Furman fans and students to the SoCon tournament which will help our team out. The fandom for the Paladins at the tournament this year was extremely disappointing. I would like to see the administration at Furman finally act like they give a damn and do something to generate better attendance at home and at the tournament, right now they basically don't do anything at all!
We need new blood and younger people involved in the marketing and ticket sales of Furman basketball, make it incentive driven!
Sight lines, rims - I don't know what it is but on the whole teams shoot poorly in that arena. And how many times in the tourney did you see someone inadvertently step out of bounds?raleigh fan wrote: ↑Mon Mar 05, 2018 11:00 pmThis had the chance to be a great tournament this year and I don't just mean Furman winning, but with the number of quality teams in it (at least 4 maybe 5) that there would be exciting games and show the league deserved respect come tournament time..hopefully it won't cost us the 14 line they seemed to have the league pegged at....don't know if it was a match of styles or the referees or terrible rims.
Shouldn't matter how attractive the game was. And I don't think it will. The list of teams that make it and their respective rankings will decide the seeds. There are too many more important factors in assigning the seeds.raleigh fan wrote: ↑Mon Mar 05, 2018 11:00 pmThis had the chance to be a great tournament this year and I don't just mean Furman winning, but with the number of quality teams in it (at least 4 maybe 5) that there would be exciting games and show the league deserved respect come tournament time..hopefully it won't cost us the 14 line they seemed to have the league pegged at....don't know if it was a match of styles or the referees or terrible rims.
Pretty disappointing that we only got the one game on ESPN2 at 9 p.m. ET when other, smaller conferences had semis on ESPNU and a better time slot on ESPN or ESPN2. As great as ESPN3 is, I still would prefer to see games on an ESPNU, and I'm assuming the ratings would show that I'm not in the minority on that.The Jackal wrote: ↑Tue Mar 06, 2018 7:56 amWhy was the finals game on at 9pm?
I mean, ESPN 2 or not, but that seems like a super late start.
