bauman Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 Looking at our 17 home games, I see 17-0 as a real possibility, with a worst case scenario of 14-3. Three (3) possible, but not all likely, L's are Butler, OSU and SJU. One of those three could be replaced in the L column by an upset. Bring your pom poms! Of course, this supposes no major injuries to key players and no other significant losses for any other reason. Average attendance for our clunkers (Appl St/NCC/SEMO/C ARK/Troy/and N Bama------6500-7000 Avg attendance for Butler and OSU-----9000-9500 Avg attendance for A-10 games -------- 9500-10000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeSmetBilliken Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 43 minutes ago, billiken_roy said: wonderful for Ty. all thanks to stormy, pesty, krafty and the BoT of Saint Louis University. While the timing of the decision likely cost Ty a semester of basketball, the actual rules that were followed in handling down the punishment are not unique to SLU. 29 minutes ago, billiken_roy said: really? other than a slight detour to go eat ribs at the Murphysboro 17th street, there is nothing about carbondale that interests me and i dread the 4 hours in a car in the middle of the week. 17th St is good, but it's not where I'd go if I was going down there and only having one meal down there. I prefer to go to a hole in the wall country inn sort of place that you might not be able to find unless you've lived down there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowboy Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 3 minutes ago, bauman said: Looking at our 17 home games, I see 17-0 as a real possibility, with a worst case scenario of 14-3. Three (3) possible, but not all likely, L's are Butler, OSU and SJU. One of those three could be replaced in the L column by an upset. Bring your pom poms! Of course, this supposes no major injuries to key players and no other significant losses for any other reason. Average attendance for our clunkers (Appl St/NCC/SEMO/C ARK/Troy/and N Bama------6500-7000 Avg attendance for Butler and OSU-----9000-9500 Avg attendance for A-10 games -------- 9500-10000 -I am not picking on you even as this is my third reply this session, but the highlighted section got us in BIG trouble last season, so you might chose to rephrase wgstl, BillikenBoy10 and bauman like this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pistol Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 Non-conference: 11/6: SEMO 11/17: @ Seton Hall 11/21: vs. Pitt at Barclays Center (Brooklyn, NY) 11/24: vs. Central Arkansas 12/1: vs. Butler 12/5: @ SIUC 12/16: @ Houston 12/22: vs. Florida State at BB&T Center (Sunrise, FL) Home: Oregon State, Troy, North Alabama, NC Central, Appalachian State, 2 exhibitions A10: Home: Davidson, George Mason, Massachusetts, Richmond, Dayton, Duquesne, La Salle, Rhode Island, Saint Joseph’s Away: Fordham, George Washington, St. Bonaventure, VCU, Dayton, Duquesne, La Salle, Rhode Island, Saint Joseph’s -Appalachian State was a .500 team in the Sun Belt last season (as was Troy). NC Central was 9-7 in the MEAC but won the MEAC Tournament and got a 16-seed play-in game, which they lost to Texas Southern. -Opponents by conference: ACC (2), Big East (2), Sun Belt (2), Pac 12 (1), American (1), Missouri Valley (1), Ohio Valley (1), Southland (1), Atlantic Sun (1), MEAC (1). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoosierPal Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 1 hour ago, bauman said: Looking at our 17 home games, I see 17-0 as a real possibility, with a worst case scenario of 14-3. Three (3) possible, but not all likely, L's are Butler, OSU and SJU. One of those three could be replaced in the L column by an upset. Bring your pom poms! Of course, this supposes no major injuries to key players and no other significant losses for any other reason. Average attendance for our clunkers (Appl St/NCC/SEMO/C ARK/Troy/and N Bama------6500-7000 Avg attendance for Butler and OSU-----9000-9500 Avg attendance for A-10 games -------- 9500-10000 Butler is on a Sat. Good chance for a sellout at 10,600. There are a decent number of Butler grads in town plus Indy is only 4 hours away for the homies. We've only had four 10,600+ games at Chaifetz; VCU, GW, Butler (in 2013) and Dayton. The clunkers attendance will be whatever our season ticket base it. SEMO will be higher, with alumni in town and first home game. We had 7246 in for the home opener last season v Seattle. The highest season average attendance at Chaifetz was 2013-14 at 8,428 (80% capacity). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glorydays2013 Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 these easy early games gave me too much false hope the last few years. Hopefully we dont get overconfident on these easy teams, but it will be great to see the freshmen play Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slu let the dogs out? Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 48 minutes ago, HoosierPal said: Butler is on a Sat. Good chance for a sellout at 10,600. There are a decent number of Butler grads in town plus Indy is only 4 hours away for the homies. We've only had four 10,600+ games at Chaifetz; VCU, GW, Butler (in 2013) and Dayton. The clunkers attendance will be whatever our season ticket base it. SEMO will be higher, with alumni in town and first home game. We had 7246 in for the home opener last season v Seattle. The highest season average attendance at Chaifetz was 2013-14 at 8,428 (80% capacity). I've got a kid due the same day as the Butler game. At least I've got 3 months to decide whether or not I want to stay married.... dlarry likes this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wgstl Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 9 minutes ago, Slu let the dogs out? said: I've got a kid due the same day as the Butler game. At least I've got 3 months to decide whether or not I want to stay married.... This has to be a joke... We wont have butler at home again for a while slufanskip, Slu let the dogs out?, HoosierPal and 3 others like this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bauman Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 (edited) 1 hour ago, HoosierPal said: Butler is on a Sat. Good chance for a sellout at 10,600. There are a decent number of Butler grads in town plus Indy is only 4 hours away for the homies. We've only had four 10,600+ games at Chaifetz; VCU, GW, Butler (in 2013) and Dayton. The clunkers attendance will be whatever our season ticket base it. SEMO will be higher, with alumni in town and first home game. We had 7246 in for the home opener last season v Seattle. The highest season average attendance at Chaifetz was 2013-14 at 8,428 (80% capacity). With this team we should blow away previous attendance records, especially once we get to conference play. Also, I would hope that our very creative marketing folks would come up with some early season promos aimed at non-STH to 1) Make sure the building looks almost filled for the likes of C Ark and N Alabama; and 2) Try to get some non-STH sports fans interested in the team in the hope that they will want to come back to later games. How about 1/2 price drinks (soda/water and beer) or (alternative $1 soda and water, $4 beer) for a game-you still make a profit at half (or those alternative) price(s) OR $1 hot dog night OR $1 general admission/$2 or $3 reserved seat night. You could build attendance and yet make a profit on each of those things. Empty seats at Troy do not buy concessions or add to the ticket revenue for that game. This is the year to think out of the box and build the fanbase. Let's NOT do business as usual. The Blues are doing everything in their power to make attending games more enjoyable and they seem like they will be much improved this year. While our fanbases do not completely overlap, there is a sizable number of "just sports fans" who we are competing for against the Blues. We actually have a product to sell, let's not screw this up! Edited August 24, 2018 by bauman added info Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billikenfan05 Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 35 minutes ago, Slu let the dogs out? said: I've got a kid due the same day as the Butler game. At least I've got 3 months to decide whether or not I want to stay married.... Just induce that morning. Not a big deal at all. Slu let the dogs out? likes this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billiken_roy Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 22 minutes ago, bauman said: With this team we should blow away previous attendance records, especially once we get to conference play. who can forget the famous carbondale game at the old arena where about 20 minutes before the game the arena was pulling off the cover of the upper deck end seats because the walk up attendance was going crazy. that was in the clagget, waldman and highmark days and after that game, we were the hottest ticket in town. attendance was incredible until after larry legend season. who knows, we start off hot and same thing happens. bauman and HenryB like this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoosierPal Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 39 minutes ago, Slu let the dogs out? said: I've got a kid due the same day as the Butler game. At least I've got 3 months to decide whether or not I want to stay married.... C section the day before. Slu let the dogs out? likes this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billiken_roy Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 i say have the baby at halftime in the practice facility and name the baby after whichever billiken is leading in scoring at that point in the game. Billikid and Slu let the dogs out? like this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowboy Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 47 minutes ago, bauman said: With this team we should blow away previous attendance records, especially once we get to conference play. Also, I would hope that our very creative marketing folks would come up with some early season promos aimed at non-STH to 1) Make sure the building looks almost filled for the likes of C Ark and N Alabama; and 2) Try to get some non-STH sports fans interested in the team in the hope that they will want to come back to later games. How about 1/2 price drinks (soda/water and beer) or (alternative $1 soda and water, $4 beer) for a game-you still make a profit at half (or those alternative) price(s) OR $1 hot dog night OR $1 general admission/$2 or $3 reserved seat night. You could build attendance and yet make a profit on each of those things. Empty seats at Troy do not buy concessions or add to the ticket revenue for that game. This is the year to think out of the box and build the fanbase. Let's NOT do business as usual. The Blues are doing everything in their power to make attending games more enjoyable and they seem like they will be much improved this year. While our fanbases do not completely overlap, there is a sizable number of "just sports fans" who we are competing for against the Blues. We actually have a product to sell, let's not screw this up! -I agree that all the creativity that can be mustered should be used for the start of the season as I am confident/hopeful that come January we will be a very hot ticket, heck if you have to give tickets to Catholic grade school teams, could they use the practice facility once in a while as a pre-game lounge for alumni with discounted food/drink and tell us when those dates are (I understand it is a practice/game facility first and it should be), whatever it takes and posting ideas here is not worthless as we know we are being watched...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Cowboy Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 1 minute ago, FromDaEastSide said: -excellent Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billikenfan05 Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 8 minutes ago, FromDaEastSide said: Give me a towel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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VeniceMenace Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 9 minutes ago, Pistol said: Recall during the Grawer era that UMSL beat SLU Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willie Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 53 minutes ago, VeniceMenace said: Recall during the Grawer era that UMSL beat SLU Thanks for reminding me of one of the worst moments of my Billiken life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thetorch Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 Ron Coleman's team and Grawer's first team both lost to UMSL. Ekker lost a game to Mckendree. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLURadioBoy Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 If I remember correctly, I believe Romar’s second team lost to Athletes in Action. Is that worse than losing to UMSL? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
almaman Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 5 hours ago, DeSmetBilliken said: While the timing of the decision likely cost Ty a semester of basketball, the actual rules that were followed in handling down the punishment are not unique to SLU. 17th St is good, but it's not where I'd go if I was going down there and only having one meal down there. I prefer to go to a hole in the wall country inn sort of place that you might not be able to find unless you've lived down there. x bridge and hit BeastCraft before heading down. Only time I went there spoon daze, had to stand until SIU scored which was a few minutes and when everyone sat it was tightest seating I've ever been in. Big alumni and benches. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VeniceMenace Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 1 hour ago, willie said: Thanks for reminding me of one of the worst moments of my Billiken life. “Frank Cusamano with the crotch-in-the-face slam dunk on Travis Tadysak!!!” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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