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Post by H2Oya 05 on Oct 3, 2014 11:37:38 GMT -5
Principles are great to have. So what are your ideas to fill the building and raise average attendance? Think long term. Build the BE brand. After that, the attendance will grow naturally. Use the home-home alternates suggested above from other major conferences or historical powers to gain decent attendance in the meantime, where the home crowd would be more in our favor, even if the total crowd might be a bit smaller. I'd rather have 12k Hoya fans and 4k UNLV fans at Verizon than 12k Hoya fans and 8k Pitt fans. On the flip side, our home schedule since the conference ended has been terrible. Home attendance seems down; I can't imagine UNLV drawing 12k Hoya fans. Even when we have good big east home games, some are at 9:00 on weeknights. As it stands, it is way cheaper to just buy single game tickets for the very few good home games (Kansas this year, Syracuse next year) than it is to buy season tickets. If we were in a position of strength, we could try to build the Big East brand, but we aren't. As it is, we are very similar to Memphis. The best way to help the conference is for Georgetown to win big games out of conference. There is no way we can pretend that even the top remaining Big East school, Villanova, is comparable to the schools the conference lost. The new practice facility should keep us relevant for a while, but absent a change in mindset (acknowledgment that we are in a mid-major conference and then going out and taking on the real majors out of conference) (or Georgetown finding a stronger conference to join), we are likely destined for mediocrity and irrelevance on the national basketball scene. Playing UMD and Pitt, while unsatisfying, is something that Georgetown needs to do.
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Post by H2Oya 05 on Mar 6, 2014 9:27:11 GMT -5
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Post by H2Oya 05 on Jan 25, 2014 14:02:51 GMT -5
For how long though Filo? a day? a week? Not to mention if he screws up and gets kicked out practice then it's more bad pub for the program.. It's not worth it to me I understand that perspective. I am not quite sure why he is practicing with the team and I am also frustrated at the blown opportunities he has had. I just figure if he is practicing, he's got to be on a very short leash. I would think any behavior detrimental to the team would result in immediate termination of the privilege of practicing with the team. As for positives and negatives, the one thing I haven't seen (and someone may have said and missed it), is that it would benefit the other big men. They will have to bang with him and keep working on ways to prevent a big man (a very big man) from getting in the paint and scoring on them. This story still makes no sense. I was an athlete (and was academically ineligible for a semester). When you are academically ineligible, you are not allowed to practice with your team. I don't understand how Josh can be academically ineligible and eligible to practice.
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Post by H2Oya 05 on Nov 11, 2013 21:02:58 GMT -5
Great game on tv now. Its at 14:24 to go in the second half, and we aren't quite to the point where I couldn't bear to watch it with other people anymore.
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Post by H2Oya 05 on Nov 1, 2013 9:49:21 GMT -5
Two theories:
1. Pace of play makes us more likely to be upset. Our pace of play leads to fewer possessions, and fewer possessions means there is a greater element of randomness in the outcome of our games. An easy example to show this is by looking at sports playoffs: underdogs are more likely to win a one game playoff than a seven game playoff. Other examples would be length of games (shorter games mean more randomness, etc.). Playing slow helps the underdog.
2. Coach Thompson seems to prefer avoiding panic to making in game adjustments. Based on watching the team, Coach Thompson does not like to make dramatic changes at the start of the second half or if the team is still within distance that they could come back. Likely, this is based on the idea that if the team panics it will have no chance of coming back and also based on the idea that he picked the strategy going into the game because he thought it gave the team the best chance to win. Unfortunately, this has frequently meant that we don't come back. When we are losing, our slow pace provides us with a lower probability of coming back.
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Post by H2Oya 05 on Oct 15, 2013 8:37:43 GMT -5
I understand the reasoning on both sides. I live in DC, and while I'm not a Redskins fan, I understand the city's attachment to the team/name. I think the debate over whether the moniker is offensive should not be had in a vacuum though. We should look at what values we are trying to promote or discourage. One value that is at play here is a desire to not offend. There may be countervailing interests though. We focus on one team, but a larger question is what do we want/think is appropriate for mascots? Commenters here and elsewhere have noted that a similar name wouldn't work if it related to Asians, Mexicans, African Americans, etc. One could also make the point that there really aren't any Asian, Mexican, or African American mascots. Is that a good thing? In other contexts, we seek diversity and see that as a value. Is that value entirely trumped by the desire to avoid offending any members of a given group? An issue with mascots, is that since they are inherently caricatures, they cannot represent all aspects of a people. Mascots are inherently gross simplifications. Are we content to live in a world with only white/European mascots? Should we eliminate all mascots based on people? I know this is off topic and may seem like an issue that nobody would raise, but the "Redskin" discussion should be had in the context of diversity and any other social values may relate. Is it be possible to design a mascot based on a minority population that over time or immediately could not be perceived as offensive to some? If not, is society better served if sports teams that have human mascots only have white human mascots?
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Post by H2Oya 05 on Mar 20, 2013 13:29:57 GMT -5
Alternatively... Priceline... 4 star... Rittenhouse Square or Downtown... $109 bid. Hyatt at the Bellevue
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Post by H2Oya 05 on Mar 5, 2013 10:11:14 GMT -5
Being able to credibly threaten to blow up the league though, gives us much more leverage.
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Post by H2Oya 05 on Mar 5, 2013 9:28:29 GMT -5
My understanding was that the 2/3rds had to include at least one non-football and one football member.
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Post by H2Oya 05 on Mar 4, 2013 20:19:50 GMT -5
I would take UConn because we'd then have the votes to dissolve the conference, keep the name, and give up nothing. UConn gives the 7 schools the votes to do whatever they and UConn can agree on.
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Post by H2Oya 05 on Jan 25, 2013 17:31:52 GMT -5
If its a missed final and he isn't being allowed to retake it, then he is being treated worse than other Georgetown students. When I was a sophomore, I missed a final and was allowed to retake it, and I had a friend who missed two finals during his Georgetown days and was able to make them both up. I had thought mine was a week later than it actually was, and my friend appears to have been incapable of waking up when his alarm went off. Not speculation, but there has to be more to the story than he simply missed a final.
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Post by H2Oya 05 on Sept 21, 2012 11:00:06 GMT -5
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Post by H2Oya 05 on Jul 26, 2012 14:19:45 GMT -5
Golf has something to do with it, but not much. The courses are much more difficult in addition to the added length. Swimming-what equipment. The special swim suits are outlawed and the records are still fallling. the times aren't even close. Is there any other equipment that a male swimmer may have to propel himself forward? ?? Track-what records are 20 years old. I may be forgetting one or two, but I can't think of any that are 20 years old. However, that isn't even the point. the average olympian of today is faster and stronger than his or her counterpart from 1992 Football-you said "if the Hogs played today, they'd all weigh 300+ and play just as well" I can't believe you just said that. I have read your posts before, and I know you are smarter than to make an argument like that. That fact is that they did play at that weight (remember we are comparing 1992 to 2012), and if they went up against the linemen of today as they were then, they would get creamed. As far as Ewing and Robinson are concerned, Chandler is quick and would give them fits (he wasn't named first team all defense for nothing). He doesn't have to score. BTW-if you didn't notice, the 2012 Olympic team did best against Spain when LeBron played center. Basketball has changed. The widespread use of the pick and roll requires that all player be able to guard anyone on the court unless you play a zone. The days of the classic center of the 1992 generation are practically gone. I would also argue that the 2012 team is an infinitely better defensive team than the dream team. Yes Pippen and Jordan were excellent defenders, but the 2012 starting 5 have 4 all pro defenders ahnd have Iguadala coming off the bench. With swimming, you aren't totally accurate. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_world_records_in_swimming If you look at the records, very few have been set since they banned the new suits in January of 2010. And if you look at the records that got broken shortly before the new suits were banned, a handful were very old records. Additionally, swimming rules have changed over the years generally to make the sport faster. For example, you can now do a dolphin kick off your walls in breaststroke, or they now have track like foot holds on the blocks. As to the suit argument. Tom Jager went a 21.81 in 1990 (paper suits); Popov went a 21.64 in 2000 (first generation fast skin); since 2008, his record has been broken most recently by Cielo in 2009 (20.91) in a full body fast suit. I'd say suit tech is the difference, every record faster than 21.64 was set in the last year and a half of the fast suit regime. 21.59 won trials this year and was in the new fastest generation material that one could make in a jammer. With the new suits, swimmers from 20 years ago would be able to compete. Also, how do you account for Dara Torres? Would you argue that Dara Torres who was able to get third in the Olympic trials at age 46 is a better athlete than Dara Torres who qualified for the Olympics from 1984? Here is an interesting world record chart, upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/WRP50100200.png Keep in mind, in 2000 the fastskin was invented, then between 2004 and 2009 suits changed basically every few months and became full body technical suits.
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Post by H2Oya 05 on Jul 25, 2012 12:59:08 GMT -5
You have to make a donation to be eligible to buy season tickets. That's not a donation that lets you make another donation. Their explicit lack of tax-deductibility is another clue that season tickets aren't a donation to the university. 1- Make an annual donation to the HHC. 2- 3- Attend (nearly) the entire home slate of games. Why should you or anyone else care what my/our Step 2 is? It looks like the important bases are covered. The point is the Basketball program needs that money to be competitive. So if you want a good team you shouldn't complain about paying a little extra money to make sure your team has continued success. I understand that the basketball program makes more money by charging higher than market prices (assuming that it has no impact on fan behavior). Unfortunately, I think the program would ultimately have more "true" fans (and dollars) if it didn't gouge for tickets. People might donate more if they thought they were treated well by the program. The program's need for money, "the little extra" described above, seems short-sighted if it (a) prices out fans or (b) creates ill will.
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Post by H2Oya 05 on Jul 25, 2012 10:32:31 GMT -5
The issue as I see it is supply and demand. Season ticket-holders are being treated like there is a shortage of tickets where one does not exist. I like helping the university, and I donate to it, but I don't like being told I'm getting a deal when I'm really being ripped off. Really, is the university in a position to threaten people in April about tickets for the following winter? With donation, tickets average $50 a game, the market can't support that rate. It doesn't and never has.
In essence season tickets are insurance that you'll be able to attend every game by paying $50 per game. It is a terrible deal.
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Post by H2Oya 05 on Jul 25, 2012 10:22:08 GMT -5
So why not just get those five games from Stubhub? Any true fan should want to see every single game. As a true fan, I can get to all of the games, with better seats, for less money by not buying season tickets. Season tickets + mandatory donation is roughly $628 per seat for my seats. There will be groupon deals for the out of conference games, and if not, I'll be able to buy them on stub-hub for next to nothing. It would take a max of ten dollars a game to get decent seats to the out of conference slate. (For arguments sake, I'll budget 40 for Tennessee which hasn't been good lately.) For the in conference games, weeknight games typically can be gotten on stubhub for less than face value and weekend games rarely go for above face value. I'll estimate that I'll spend 50 per game though as I'll want the best seats I can afford. Weekend games will also be available at face, but for good seats, again, I'll spend 50 per game ($33 is face). That leaves the Syracuse game, for $100, I'll be able to get a lower bowl ticket (it won't cost more than Duke tickets, and I'll buy it early). So... using non-conservative estimates, I'll get seats to all of the game for $560.
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Post by H2Oya 05 on Jul 24, 2012 14:53:10 GMT -5
Well, this is the last year I'm going to be a season ticket holder. The program has taken my money too many times. Last year it had an auction offering prime seats to the Big East Tournament which turned out to be in the upper deck. This year, they made me commit to tickets in April and then scheduled zero interesting out of conference games. As a diehard and lifelong fan, it has taken a lot to turn me off from wanting to financially support the program, but I'm there.
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Post by H2Oya 05 on Feb 29, 2012 9:24:49 GMT -5
Ok, so I'm currently the high bidder for the tickets to the Big East Tournament. Does anyone know if I can sell the tickets for the games that I won't be able to make it up to to another Georgetown fan; also, if someone won the tickets and then their team lost, would fans of the team that lost still have to use the tickets, or could that hypothetical winning bidder whose team lost sell them at that point? If anyone has info, let me know. Right now, $1350 for two "prime" tickets for Friday and Saturday seems like a reasonable price.
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Post by H2Oya 05 on Jan 30, 2012 13:07:26 GMT -5
So, last week I got an email from a student looking to interview me for the Georgetown Discovery Initiative? Are they doing this again? Was it effective last time? How do they pick people? Is it legit?
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Post by H2Oya 05 on Jan 23, 2012 9:57:31 GMT -5
Jenkins can play. While he doesn't have a natural position and needs to lose some weight to become an effective college two, its time to realize that the question is, "Would we rather have him on our team or face him in Big East play?" I know I'd rather have him playing for us than against us.
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