Green Otaku

Looking at the master plan again and taking a guess, the only 2 options of keeping a new arena on that side is to place it where the current Super Pit is, or place it where Fouts was. The only problem I see with that is I don't think you have the space to do an all-in-1 building, as they have said they want to do an arena, with 2 basketball practice courts and a volleyball facility. That's a pretty large footprint for a building.

I'm not sure if they all live at Victory, I would assume so since I thought all student athletes live there, but that's a good question. Agree about the dorms needing to be taller. It seems like we are in a perpetual state of not enough housing.

The big problem is the players who use the facility everyday are going to have to shuttle to use the court? I don't think it's smart to trade the convenience of the players for the convenience of the students. They can go from their dorms, to the weight room, to the arena, and to a team meeting in a short walk. The master plan has more dorms planned by Traditions and Santa Fe Square, and a 2nd dorm behind Victory. Dark yellow is existing dorms, and light yellow are planned/suggested dorms: Here is an overall plan for all new buildings: The site you are talking about next to the BSM is supposed to be another large parking garage. Looking at everything I think it would be odd to have a new arena so isolated from everything else. If I had no money restrictions and could do whatever I wanted I would build the arena where the AD master plan says, but I would cover I-35 like the did in downtown Dallas and connect the 2 parts of campus like so: Now students and everyone else could easily walk across to both FB or BB.

Seems like it because Vanderbilt was also surprised to be a 2 after being told they were a 3.

So what happened? Was it a mistake or was there actually a change made?

What was the historical NET number that usually meant teams got in?

I'm hoping we can keep bringing crowds, but the whole presentation looks miles better than what CUSA does.

We actually had the shots to win this in the end. Jones misses 1 FT and we get several good looks to cut the lead when it was a 5 point game. We just couldn't make those chances.

We were off tonight, that had to have been one of our worst shooting nights and it drained our confidence since we didn't even try for many 3s. I have to hand it to the guys for battling back and not giving up. I just feel for them.

Could have been if the refs didn't hose us.

2 terrible calls. They stopped the lean into the defender to get a foul thing a couple of seasons ago. 2nd one was total BS

Should be even better next year 🙂

Very tough game tomorrow. Let's hope the guys rest up and are ready to go.

Glad to hear that it wasn't anything else.

I noticed Perry was sitting for long stretches of the game in the 2nd half. I'm just assuming he was being rested?

Very nice distribution of points for the starters. *Updated with minutes played

I definitely think LA Tech will come in extra motivated to avenge their 2 season losses. We need to get a big lead and never give them the chance to get in the game. GMG!

Yes, but it's cutthroat in the open market. These networks are going to settle for the lowest price possible and use all the leverage they have.

I thought about suggesting that game be the one in the AAC (arena), but I think that game would be well attended by our students and would take that home court advantage edge away from us. I think we'd all like to keep that one at home. 😅

A real investment is needed. If it were me I would also hire a consulting firm to do surveys and gather data to see a clear picture or what we have and don't, then develop a strategy on how to change things.

Option 2 is definitely the way to go. What happens if that member goes on multi-year down cycles? You also get legitimacy questions since they play in a weak conference, and it requires teams to have perfect seasons. We always hear about a 2 loss Alabama team still being considered for the CFP since they play in such a strong conference.

If CSU is being considered you'd think CU is on the way out. Why would they want to double up on the Colorado market?

I still think the Big10 bides their time. Oregon/Washington don't have anywhere to go unless it's the Big12, and by the time the Big10 has their new commissioner in place the Big12 would have already made/not made their move. They could have taken those two (plus more) when they took USC/UCLA, they had to have had solid money reasons as to why they didn't. The Big10 is also thinking about not overloading too early, the ACC is being encircled by a pride of lions and everyone is just waiting for the right time to strike. Recently FSU, Clemson, and UNC made public remarks about being unhappy with payouts. They feel what they contribute to the conference is not equal to what they get in return. They are pushing for unequal revenue distribution and reports say their lawyers are combing through the GOR to see if there are any clauses for breaking it. I doubt anything immediate happens. This is either a ploy to get unequal revenue to be accepted, or they really are unhappy and this is a sign of a future breakup if the ACC can't match what other conferences are paying out.