Green with Envy

No need to dismantle the basketball court anyways. Allen HS hosts cheer, dance, flag and wrestling competitions in their gym all the time. They have the means to cover the floor. They host graduation for 1800 kids every year on their turf and they have the means to cover the turf. Them HS girls walk on it with their high heels and ain't no one falling, so you know the cover is strong enough. The floor at the pit could have been covered. The turf on the IPF could have been covered. But that requires forward thinking. That said, Allen HS probably has a larger operating budget than us and can afford those things, so my point is moot.

too soon

That's awesome and you know a very proud moment for Dr Carpenter.

did he in fact turn them down or was he not offered the job? i don't recall seeing.

Yet this is the world we're about to live in.

Why not go vertical and horizontal? There are drive throughs under buildings all the time. expand the AC towards the scoreboard at 2 levels high. part of that first level will be the drive through, but visually from the stands, it will look like a building. put a 40yd scoreboard spanning the top of the building and ditch the 2 postage stamp boards in the corners. the building will look massive, will close off the end to contain sound and could almost be legit.

so, since they will essentially become employees of the university, those state school kids could/should have their salaries published, correct?

Touché. I’m in east Allen. About a block from ‘not Allen’. As I sit right now at 6:21p, I’m 67 mins away from the Pit. Hour 10 to get there. 45 to get home. MVSU and 1500-2000 people in the stands. I’m gunna have to pass….but GMG!

'Frisco' doesn't help the conversation much. Little Elm Frisco or McKinney Plano Frisco. Those are 2 very different places and distances from Denton. Not saying you can't or aren't making it, just know that all Frisco is not 'Frisco'.

i would side with the lack of offers.

Are you pleading for the student body to show up or alumni? A 6:30 game on a Wednesday is a B for someone that doesn’t live in close proximity. I live in Allen and could never consider that drive. We go to Americans hockey games as they are in our back yard. They aren’t very good but more of a deterrent for us to go to more, is no one is there….on a Tuesday night. If there stands were filled, it would feel more legit and we’d probably go more, even if the quality of play wasn’t there. I suspect the student body wants that same ‘experience’. When I was there so many years ago, we wanted to be where the action was, even if it was dash riprocks. So I see a bit of chicken and egg here. People don’t go because people don’t go. If people would go, more people would go. football games are so much easier to plan for. 1 game a week, generally on a Saturday. You can make a day/event out of it. Weekly, more frequent basketball games, on weeknights, don’t offer the same advantages. All that said, I applaud your plea and hope that the tides change. Would love to hear that the Pit is packed routinely.

Don’t let 9 national championships in 15 years cloud your judgement

If I had a dollar….

I tend to agree. I don’t give 2 sh!+$ about Morris, but I bet those players would embrace him wholeheartedly.