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MUScoop => Hangin' at the Al => Topic started by: TallTitan34 on January 18, 2017, 09:43:37 AM
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http://www.gomarquette.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/011817aaa.html
Zero chance this works.
It doesn't work when there is one color (gold) and free t-shirts on all of the seats.
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Yea, seems like a cool idea. There's no chance it works if they are making people buy a $10 shirt if they sit in a section where they don't already own the color.
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Aren't the 1000 pint glasses enough for you people?! You expect free shirts now?
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Agreed that it has little chance of success. But, I'll pin it here just so that more people can see it. We'll do what we can....
FANS CAN STRIPE BMO HARRIS BRADLEY CENTER ON FEB. 18
Purchase t-shirts now for National Marquette Day vs. Xavier
(http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/marq/sports/m-baskbl/auto_storywidephoto/12369594.jpeg)
Jan. 18, 2017
3-Point Play Mini Plan (https://oss.ticketmaster.com/aps/marquette/EN/buy/browse) | Navy T-shirts (https://spiritshop.marquette.edu/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=26303N) | Gold T-Shirts (https://spiritshop.marquette.edu/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=26303G) | Championship Blue T-shirts (https://spiritshop.marquette.edu/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=26303C)
Fans in attendance for the National Marquette Day matchup with nationally ranked Xavier on Feb. 18 will have the unique opportunity to “stripe” the BMO Harris Bradley Center by wearing special T-shirts depending on the section they are sitting in for the game.
The Gold, Navy and Championship Blue T-shirts are available for $10 in the Spirit Shop in the Alumni Memorial Union (1442 W. Wisconsin Ave.) and online.
Tickets are also still available for the game and the 3-Point Play Mini Plan can be purchased for as little as $35 and includes Marquette’s matchups against Xavier, Creighton and a third game of choice.
The weekend’s festivities include the National Marquette Day Pep Rally at 6 p.m. CT Friday, Feb. 17 and a men’s basketball alumni game at the Al McGuire Center at 7 p.m. Admission is free to both events.
All former players, coaches and staff members have been invited back for the weekend and will be recognized at Saturday’s game against the Musketeers.
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Why aren't they just putting shirts on the seats?
I wouldn't pay $5 for that shirt.
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And put one of these babies under the seat.
https://www.manoswine.com/collegiate-wine/marquette-university
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Why aren't they just putting shirts on the seats?
I wouldn't pay $5 for that shirt.
Yup, but most people already have a shirt in all of those colors, no?
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Yup, but most people already have a shirt in all of those colors, no?
Shamefully, no. I'm in a yellow section and I have no non-gross shirts to wear. Maybe a MU golf polo, I'll have to look.
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Shamefully, no. I'm in a yellow section and I have no non-gross shirts to wear. Maybe a MU golf polo, I'll have to look.
The problem with yellow is that it's an awful color to wear. Adult men look ridiculous in yellow shirts. Yes, that includes old men in yellow sweater vests. Sure, I've collected a few gold t-shirts that have become workout shirts, but when's the last time you saw a grown man in a nice-looking yellow shirt? I'll be wearing my comfortable gray MU pullover as opposed to throwing on a junky old yellow t-shirt.
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The problem with yellow is that it's an awful color to wear. Adult men look ridiculous in yellow shirts. Yes, that includes old men in yellow sweater vests. Sure, I've collected a few gold t-shirts that have become workout shirts, but when's the last time you saw a grown man in a nice-looking yellow shirt? I'll be wearing my comfortable gray MU pullover as opposed to throwing on a junky old yellow t-shirt.
Bingo. It's a bad yellow.
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Come on. If the Vols can pull this off in a 100,000 seat stadium, we can do some stripes in an 18000 seat arena:
(http://media-cdn.timesfreepress.com/img/photos/2014/09/30/Checker_Neyland_t755_h3eedff1274f937db618708ca9b85d96e33e791a9.jpg)
And yes, everyone brought their own shirt to wear. And yes, Tennessee Orange is exponentially more obnoxious than Marquette Gold.
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Come on. If the Vols can pull this off in a 100,000 seat stadium, we can do some stripes in an 18000 seat arena:
(http://media-cdn.timesfreepress.com/img/photos/2014/09/30/Checker_Neyland_t755_h3eedff1274f937db618708ca9b85d96e33e791a9.jpg)
And yes, everyone brought their own shirt to wear. And yes, Tennessee Orange is exponentially more obnoxious than Marquette Gold.
Yeah, we're not mouthbreathers though chick.
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Yeah, we're not mouthbreathers though chick.
Should be even easier for us, then.
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Should be even easier for us, then.
Oh, snap.
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Should be even easier for us, then.
Ehhhh.....could go either way.
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I'm not saying it couldn't be done, but I'm pretty sure it won't be.
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Zero. Chance.
Not sure why they'd set themselves up for guaranteed failure.
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Zero. Chance.
Not sure why they'd set themselves up for guaranteed failure.
Better chance with a sweater vest day.
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Heh, they tried to do a gold out when I was a student but I was too superstitious to wear anything else besides my usual attire to games. That was when we lost like one home game in two years, the only home game I missed as well.
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I'd be happy just to see people in the seats for this game, color coordinated or not. My Marquette watching this year has been 70% empty seat backs for an audience.
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Newsie and I will be sitting in the mamajuanna section. We can't be bothered with this nonsense.
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Zero chance I remember the correct color anyways
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The problem with yellow is that it's an awful color to wear. Adult men look ridiculous in yellow shirts. Yes, that includes old men in yellow sweater vests. Sure, I've collected a few gold t-shirts that have become workout shirts, but when's the last time you saw a grown man in a nice-looking yellow shirt? I'll be wearing my comfortable gray MU pullover as opposed to throwing on a junky old yellow t-shirt.
You need to drop your prissiness. You probably don't look that good in any color.
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You need to drop your prissiness. You probably don't look that good in any color.
Ice cold.
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You need to drop your prissiness. You probably don't look that good in any color.
I never claimed to...and yellow only makes it worse ;)
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I never claimed to...and yellow only makes it worse ;)
Or wear another layer over it to the game, and remove the layer during the game. Perhaps a jacket?
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Come on. If the Vols can pull this off in a 100,000 seat stadium, we can do some stripes in an 18000 seat arena:
(http://media-cdn.timesfreepress.com/img/photos/2014/09/30/Checker_Neyland_t755_h3eedff1274f937db618708ca9b85d96e33e791a9.jpg)
And yes, everyone brought their own shirt to wear. And yes, Tennessee Orange is exponentially more obnoxious than Marquette Gold.
That's easy for Vols fans. Hunting clothes or church clothes.
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That's easy for Vols fans. Hunting clothes or church clothes.
I grew up in Tennessee, and I never saw blaze orange hunting gear until I moved to Wisconsin.
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The problem with yellow is that it's an awful color to wear. Adult men look ridiculous in yellow shirts. Yes, that includes old men in yellow sweater vests. Sure, I've collected a few gold t-shirts that have become workout shirts, but when's the last time you saw a grown man in a nice-looking yellow shirt? I'll be wearing my comfortable gray MU pullover as opposed to throwing on a junky old yellow t-shirt.
What are you talking a out? Marquette gold is watercolor. Wear it proudly young man.
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Why even try this? They have literally put a gold tshirt on every chair in the past and still couldn't pull off a gold out.
Now they expect it to work with 1) people bringing their own shirt and 2) people knowing what color shirt to bring? I'm guessing more than 50% of ticket holders don't even know they are doing this.
And to the gold looks bad on me crowd, didn't they also try a baby blue out which went equally as bad?
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I grew up in Tennessee, and I never saw blaze orange hunting gear until I moved to Wisconsin.
You were too young to have known of the requirements found in TCA-70-4-124
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Newsie and I will be sitting in the mamajuanna section. We can't be bothered with this nonsense.
Do we even know the # the mamajuana section is in?
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Looking forward to my free t-shirts. Don't screw it up, boys.
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Unpinning this, but will BUMP through Sat to keep it on top.
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C'mon, folks!
If you are going to the game, participate in this! If you don't you're no better than the sweater vests!
If you don't have a shirt in the right color, leave home 15 minutes earlier so you can swing by the Spirit Shop and buy one of their $10 specials.
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Ugh light blue section... looking forward to trying to squeeze into my unbelievably tight college shirts.
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Ugh light blue section... looking forward to trying to squeeze into my unbelievably tight college shirts.
Chick and I got free ones earlier this year at one of the non-con weeknight games. So we've got that going for us!
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C'mon, folks!
If you are going to the game, participate in this! If you don't you're no better than the sweater vests!
If you don't have a shirt in the right color, leave home 15 minutes earlier so you can swing by the Spirit Shop and buy one of their $10 specials.
I'm driving 4.5 hours to sit in nosebleed seats that cost me a half a car payment on stubhub. I am going to wear my MU stuff and not worry about the assigned color of my section. That doesn't make me a bad fan.
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I'm driving 4.5 hours to sit in nosebleed seats that cost me a half a car payment on stubhub. I am going to wear my MU stuff and not worry about the assigned color of my section. That doesn't make me a bad fan.
Shoulda bought them straight from MU when you had the chance/ ;D
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Didn't know for sure I was going to be off this weekend until 10 days ago. ;D
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Didn't know for sure I was going to be off this weekend until 10 days ago. ;D
You don't have enough options of stuff you already own? I could dress for any section 3 times over just with free shirts I've gotten over the years, toughest one might be navy if only using free ones actually.
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Didn't know for sure I was going to be off this weekend until 10 days ago. ;D
But apparently you could have bought them anyway, and if you couldn't go, scalp them for half a car payment. ;D
But then, I was a Bus Ad major and I think like that....
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agreed...zero chance. what a joke that they recommend that fans buy a hideous $10 shirt. Would probably be a failure even if they left free shirts on the seats. I swear our athletic department is incompetent.
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agreed...zero chance. what a joke that they recommend that fans buy a hideous $10 shirt. Would probably be a failure even if they left free shirts on the seats. I swear our athletic department is incompetent.
What should they do instead?
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agreed...zero chance. what a joke that they recommend that fans buy a hideous $10 shirt. Would probably be a failure even if they left free shirts on the seats. I swear our athletic department is incompetent.
You swear everything and everyone associated with MU is incompetent. The athletic department just needs to grab a number and stand in line.
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You swear everything and everyone associated with MU is incompetent. The athletic department just needs to grab a number and stand in line.
Remember that this guy's first post included the following:
"Steve Taylor will be the conference (whatever the new conference is called) player of the year either his junior or senior season."
So his judgement is not the best.
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Remember that this guy's first post included the following:
"Steve Taylor will be the conference (whatever the new conference is called) player of the year either his junior or senior season."
So his judgement is not the best.
He's holding out hope that Steve's 15 and 12 is good enough for MAC POY.
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I don't think the athletic department is incompetent, I just think this kind of stuff doesn't work well with our fan base. We're more like herding cats than a single unified pack of cattle.
I think it goes back to the traits of the university itself. Our tradition is that we don't really have traditions. We change uniforms, change mascots, change conferences, we rent our stadium, we've torn-down and rebuilt the campus a couple times. We're more a collection of random people that happened to go to school together and kinda lived nearby. We don't have a single unifying common experience so everything is more splintered. There isn't as much of a "Rah Rah State U" sentiment holding us together. We all just do our own thing, including what we wear to games.
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I don't think the athletic department is incompetent, I just think this kind of stuff doesn't work well with our fan base. We're more like herding cats than a single unified pack of cattle.
I think it goes back to the traits of the university itself. Our tradition is that we don't really have traditions. We change uniforms, change mascots, change conferences, we rent our stadium, we've torn-down and rebuilt the campus a couple times. We're more a collection of random people that happened to go to school together and kinda lived nearby. We don't have a single unifying common experience so everything is more splintered. There isn't as much of a "Rah Rah State U" sentiment holding us together. We all just do our own thing, including what we wear to games.
I just think it is more simple. You have to make it easy. They should hand out the shirts.
The sweater-vests will sweater-vest it up by refusing to wear a t-shirt over their 1973 era attire, but this would look very impressive in person IF MU provides the shirt.
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C'mon, folks!
If you are going to the game, participate in this! If you don't you're no better than the sweater vests!
If you don't have a shirt in the right color, leave home 15 minutes earlier so you can swing by the Spirit Shop and buy one of their $10 specials.
203 in Navy. Good to go.
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Remember that this guy's first post included the following:
"Steve Taylor will be the conference (whatever the new conference is called) player of the year either his junior or senior season."
So his judgement is not the best.
Steve is having a great year in the MAC.
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Section 411. In a happy coincidence, I have a yellow MU t-shirt from about 20 years ago. My wife has a yellow MU sweatshirt. The 10 year old will be the one not wearing yellow.
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Steve is having a great year in the MAC.
Good for him! That's where he should have been in the first place.
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Section 411. In a happy coincidence, I have a yellow MU t-shirt from about 20 years ago. My wife has a yellow MU sweatshirt. The 10 year old will be the one not wearing yellow.
I got you Tower
http://spiritshop.marquette.edu/
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I got plenty of navy but no baby. Maybe I'll wear white.
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I got you Tower
http://spiritshop.marquette.edu/
and they are running a sale.
NMD25
25% off
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You swear everything and everyone associated with MU is incompetent. The athletic department just needs to grab a number and stand in line.
Don'cha know ...
Everybody's incompetent except for Al Davis, who fired a coach every year, drafted Todd Marinovich and JaMarcus Russell, and quickly ruined the only SB team he stumbled upon in his last two decades on this earth.
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I got plenty of navy but no baby. Maybe I'll wear white.
Dude, you don't have a blue oxford to wear?
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Although nice find by chick, I hope we don't base our ability to "___ -out" solely on this doctored photo. Tennessee Orange speckled with other colors - doable, but the white sections? Com'on, unless the students paint rolled the isles white on their way up. Even part of the visiting team is all in white! Com'on!
Mm sure Tennessee can pull this off with free teeshirts, but not this good! Com'on!
Come on. If the Vols can pull this off in a 100,000 seat stadium, we can do some stripes in an 18000 seat arena:
(http://media-cdn.timesfreepress.com/img/photos/2014/09/30/Checker_Neyland_t755_h3eedff1274f937db618708ca9b85d96e33e791a9.jpg)
And yes, everyone brought their own shirt to wear. And yes, Tennessee Orange is exponentially more obnoxious than Marquette Gold.
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I'm driving 4.5 hours to sit in nosebleed seats that cost me a half a car payment on stubhub. I am going to wear my MU stuff and not worry about the assigned color of my section. That doesn't make me a bad fan.
Compared to a 10 hour daily commute, 4.5 should seem like a cakewalk, no?
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Although nice find by chick, I hope we don't base our ability to "___ -out" solely on this doctored photo. Tennessee Orange speckled with other colors - doable, but the white sections? Com'on, unless the students paint rolled the isles white on their way up. Even part of the visiting team is all in white! Com'on!
Mm sure Tennessee can pull this off with free teeshirts, but not this good! Com'on!
Doctored? I don't think so. Take your pick:
https://www.google.com/search?q=tennessee+vols+checkerboard+stadium&newwindow=1&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiyq-roqJXSAhWowVQKHbnTAtgQ_AUICCgB&biw=1378&bih=990
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I saw those too. But the one you picked is doctored. Why submit a doctored one when there are so many? However, if someone doctors one, it puts the rest into question. Fool me once...
Doctored? I don't think so. Take your pick:
https://www.google.com/search?q=tennessee+vols+checkerboard+stadium&newwindow=1&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiyq-roqJXSAhWowVQKHbnTAtgQ_AUICCgB&biw=1378&bih=990
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I saw those too. But the one you picked is doctored. Why submit a doctored one when there are so many? However, if someone doctors one, it puts the rest into question. Fool me once...
I just used the first one I saw. Does it make any difference? It looks exactly like the real one.
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(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C40LlHYXUAE-EWu.jpg)
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(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C40LlHYXUAE-EWu.jpg)
Student section will be empty
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This would be a great idea, if they supplied the shirts. No chance this is going to work.
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Steve is having a great year in the MAC.
Great year? His ORtg is lower & turnover rate higher compared to everyone on the Marquette roster
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Here's my whole thing with the stripe out. I'm fine with the effort to do some sort of ____ out but why do we have to take the difficulty level to 11 and go for a 3 color scheme? Go with a Gold Out or a Blue and Gold Out or whatever....it's like the Athletic Department was out with other Athletic Departments and went all..
(http://s2.quickmeme.com/img/2d/2d97deefc54dc02358e6082c67959815ccb9d916db357b18cd4749bbf2fb4aa7.jpg)
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One other note, the fact that they aren't giving shirts away for this is telling....couldn't get a sponsor for the damn thing and that just depresses me.
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Should have called it "Bumble Bee" out.
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I saw those too. But the one you picked is doctored. Why submit a doctored one when there are so many? However, if someone doctors one, it puts the rest into question. Fool me once...
Holy crap that's altered, almost as bad as Wisconsin dropping a black man into a picture.
Not only are the Florida fans colored over, they colored over structural parts of the stadium, jacked up the saturation and tinted some press box windows.
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Holy crap that's altered, almost as bad as Wisconsin dropping a black man into a picture.
Not only are the Florida fans colored over, they colored over structural parts of the stadium, jacked up the saturation and tinted some press box windows.
Fine. here is a time lapse video of everyone actually filing in and taking their seats:
https://www.youtube.com/v/To6Efxurs0g
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Fine. here is a time lapse video of everyone actually filing in and taking their seats:
https://www.youtube.com/v/To6Efxurs0g
I'm not taking away from the impressive feat, and I doubt you purposely picked that picture. However, the picture definetly had a lot of work done.
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I'm not taking away from the impressive feat, and I doubt you purposely picked that picture. However, the picture definetly had a lot of work done.
I found out after I posted it that it was a mock-up designed to encourage people to do it.
Perhaps Marquette should have done the same.
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Remember that this guy's first post included the following:
"Steve Taylor will be the conference (whatever the new conference is called) player of the year either his junior or senior season."
So his judgement is not the best.
Steve is having a pretty solid year, no? The guy has talent. It was unfortunate his career at Marquette was filled with injuries and a coaching change. The guy can play. It was a prediction....
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Great year? His ORtg is lower & turnover rate higher compared to everyone on the Marquette roster
9-46 from 3......yikes
He is rebounding well and shooting a nice percentage on 2s......
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I found out after I posted it that it was a mock-up designed to encourage people to do it.
Perhaps Marquette should have done the same.
That would've been cool.
They would have spent too much time photoshopping students to make the student section look full though.
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Every time I remember MU is trying this "stripe out" when:
1.) Crean and Buzz both tried single-color "Gold outs" unsuccessfully
2.) That the section-specific t-shirts must be purchased
3.) At a venue other than the Bradley Center
All I can think is...
(http://cdn.ebaumsworld.com/thumbs/2013/02/23/025505/83113358/smallre.jpg)
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Every time I remember MU is trying this "stripe out" when:
1.) Crean and Buzz both tried single-color "Gold outs" unsuccessfully
2.) That the section-specific t-shirts must be purchased
3.) At a venue other than the Bradley Center
All I can think is...
(http://cdn.ebaumsworld.com/thumbs/2013/02/23/025505/83113358/smallre.jpg)
So... we should wait until the cupcakes are cool before we put on our shirts?
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So Glow and I have been on campus for 24 hours at this point, and have spoken to dozens of people who will be attending the game tonight. I am not exaggerating when I say that everyone says that they will be wearing the appropriate color for their section.
I am hopeful.
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Wife is mad at me because she hates t-shirts, but she's wearing the appropriate color.
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So Glow and I have been on campus for 24 hours at this point, and have spoken to dozens of people who will be attending the game tonight. I am not exaggerating when I say that everyo
says that they will be wearing the appropriate color for their section.
I am hopeful.
That's awesome!!! Half through your message I expected you to say "I am not exaggerating, no one knows about it"
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ZFB is doing his part & rockin his baby blue daisy dukes
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What color am I supposed to be wearing while sitting on my couch watching the game? No guidance from the Athletic Department. Sad.
(http://campusriot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Couch-Potato-GIF.gif)
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What color am I supposed to be wearing while sitting on my couch watching the game? No guidance from the Athletic Department. Sad.
(http://campusriot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Couch-Potato-GIF.gif)
Twitter says they are wearing yellow tonight.
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Students are compliant. So are most of the alums in here at 21:00 before tip. (At least in the lower bowl. Not so much upstairs.)
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Suck it, haters.
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So is the athletic department still incompetent if it worked?
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Wish they'd panned around to show it on TV (if they did I missed it.)
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My opinion....fans did well. But, MU should have just limited it to navy and gold. It would have stuck out more that way, and I think been better executed.
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And yes, Tennessee Orange is exponentially more obnoxious than Marquette Gold.
The only thing I agree with you in this post.
Please don't ever again compare our academically gifted and brilliant college to the massive kindergarten passing itself off as a university in Knoxville.
Until we have an alphabetical studies major, we'll always be superior to the University of Tennessee.
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Anyone have a photo for those of us who weren't there?
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Yes. Chick does.......and she even posted it.
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I would say that it worked fair. If you knew what was supposed to be happening, then you noticed it, but otherwise you wouldn't have suspected that anything special was going on.
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Another view from the corner of the lower bowl in the first half. Lower bowl looked pretty good, upper kinda got worse as you looked further up (but who's looking at the top of the upper bowl)?
Great crowd tonight.
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I noticed that at least two of the sections where the visiting fans get tickets (right behind X bench and upper bowl southwest corner) were in the Navy sections, so even the X fans helped out stripe out. I'm going to give Athletics the benefit of the doubt and say it was intentional.
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I would say that it worked fair. If you knew what was supposed to be happening, then you noticed it, but otherwise you wouldn't have suspected that anything special was going on.
I actually had forgotten about it until I noticed an entire navy blue upper deck section and thought, "Damn, that's a TON of Xavier fans." Then it hit me what was going on and I looked around and noticed it was solidly done.
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Upper bowl wasn't great except that Sections 403-406 were impressive. I counted less than ten people who weren't wearing navy in those sections.
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Gotta say it was much better than I expected. The only thing that really hurt was people wearing gold in navy or baby blue sections. It really stuck out.
Nicely done though.
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Yeah, it was OK. I'd say the compliance was around 70% or so, so it kinda worked.
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Far better than I expected, especially in the lower bowl. Well done by the athletic department getting out the stripes.
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I didn't think the navy worked that well, nor did at least of my friends. Didn't stand out for me. Three colors is too many.
People we were with before the game didn't know anything about it.
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I apologize for not doing my part. Couldn't find gold shirt for 102 this afternoon.
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Tennessee, the Dayton of the SEC.
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Looks like the folks who have season tickets did very well. Others who come on the mini plan or single game tickets, didn't get the memo.
Overall looked pretty sweet!
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I think it worked. Light blue stripes harder to define.
I know shirts can be expensive but perhaps gruber could sponsor a gold out. Ever seat. We could do it! All it would take is on call, that's all!
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http://www.gomarquette.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/011817aaa.html
Zero chance this works.
It doesn't work when there is one color (gold) and free t-shirts on all of the seats.
I'm not saying it couldn't be done, but I'm pretty sure it won't be.
Zero. Chance.
Not sure why they'd set themselves up for guaranteed failure.
Why even try this? They have literally put a gold tshirt on every chair in the past and still couldn't pull off a gold out.
Now they expect it to work with 1) people bringing their own shirt and 2) people knowing what color shirt to bring? I'm guessing more than 50% of ticket holders don't even know they are doing this.
And to the gold looks bad on me crowd, didn't they also try a baby blue out which went equally as bad?
I don't think the athletic department is incompetent, I just think this kind of stuff doesn't work well with our fan base. We're more like herding cats than a single unified pack of cattle.
This would be a great idea, if they supplied the shirts. No chance this is going to work.
Okay, fellas. Time to admit it. Repeat after me:
I. Was. Wrong.
Hilltopper, nice try saying that there was 70% to mitigate your error. My best guess is that the compliance in the lower bowl was 85%, and 75% in the upper bowl. Student section was was at least 90%.
https://www.youtube.com/v/WkqgDoo_eZE
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Fully admit it was way better than expectations, I was wrrrrerng. 8-)
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I noticed that at least two of the sections where the visiting fans get tickets (right behind X bench and upper bowl southwest corner) were in the Navy sections, so even the X fans helped out stripe out. I'm going to give Athletics the benefit of the doubt and say it was intentional.
Agreed on it being intentional, and good for them.
I wonder if the novelty of the stripes encouraged more people to participate than a regular gold-out. Or maybe people would prefer their own clothes to a crappy 2X tee.
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I was absolutely wrong. Said as much on Twitter last night, guess I didn't get over here. Great job by Marquette on the striping. Though in the future, I'd leave the navy blue out. Those sections turned out fine, but it doesn't really pop like the light blue or gold.
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You know, the thing is that the success demonstrated last night can be built on as folks add to their wardrobe. Most folks probably don't (didn't) have championship blue. But we do now.
Here's one thing NOT to do. Don't change the color for each section the next time they do this. Compliance will almost certainly go up if they maintain.
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I was absolutely wrong. Said as much on Twitter last night, guess I didn't get over here. Great job by Marquette on the striping. Though in the future, I'd leave the navy blue out. Those sections turned out fine, but it doesn't really pop like the light blue or gold.
Navy was done so the Xavier fans didn't pop out.
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My best guess is that the compliance in the lower bowl was 85%, and 75% in the upper bowl. Student section was was at least 90%.
Let's not get carried away. Look at the photo dsfire posted. The foreground section in the photo was supposed to be championship blue, but maybe 50% of the folks in the photo complied - there is a mix of navy, gold, red(!) and others. The navy and gold sections were better.
Probably would have been better to stick with just alternating gold and navy, as I suspect most people don't have a ton of championship blue gear.
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Let's not get carried away. Look at the photo dsfire posted. The foreground section in the photo was supposed to be championship blue, but maybe 50% of the folks in the photo complied - there is a mix of navy, gold, red(!) and others. The navy and gold sections were better.
Probably would have been better to stick with just alternating gold and navy, as I suspect most people don't have a ton of championship blue gear.
I don't know...championship blue section looks pretty good here:
(https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/16807511_1055258551284438_5824022174674913956_n.jpg?oh=9f666878ba1c87563f37c0f9f6c64de9&oe=592F0A45)
And before you start going off on the navy
blotches, I am pretty sure most of those are seats that were empty at the time the picture was taken.
And while we are at it, here is a shot of the student section. My 90% guess might be a little low.
(https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/16830620_1055260467950913_5017138009142700742_n.jpg?oh=19488394017643a0536e104755498ed8&oe=594BA15F)
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Hahah that looks better than I would have expected. Great idea...decent execution, but better game and victory.
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Hahah that looks better than I would have expected. Great idea...decent execution, but better game and victory.
thats the student section. They all have freebies from before.
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thats the student section. They all have freebies from before.
What's your point?
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Yeah, it was OK. I'd say the compliance was around 70% or so, so it kinda worked.
Didn't show up on TV.
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I thought it wasn't going to work. I was...
(https://i.imgflip.com/1dxet4.jpg)
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I thought it wasn't going to work. I was...
(https://i.imgflip.com/1dxet4.jpg)
Outstanding Sultan. Believe me!
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Was wearing yellow in 411, but was pretty lonely. Took the wife and 10 year old son to Buck Bradley's before the game. My wife was laughing on the drive home today. She said that I had told her all of these stories about MU games and partying but that she had always assumed I was exaggerating. She and the boy had a hoot. And thanks to the group behind us, the boy now knows how to impressively string together obscenities. They would swear, he would giggle.
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I was in 402 (in gold) and could see the lower bowl very well. It was clearly the effect that MU was going for. Well played.