Oso planning to go pro
Here is my idea: MU should buy the old Mecca floor, lease out the fun deck on the Viking Cruise ship in port for the winter, ring the floor with only the students in the balcony rooms and continue to charge them $8 per game even though, if they show up, they boo our coach and players. Oh, and we can seat the old carbed out sweater vesties below cabin but continue charge them $260 per person per game. MU will regain its home court advantage because opponents will be playing in Arctic conditions. All aboard!
However it seems to me that the experience in playing against Marquette in Fiserv with NBA references all over the locker room and the arena's rafters gets the other team juiced up even more. Many of the players on the teams we play, including within the conference, weren't as highly recruited as most of Marquette's players as we typically sign top 100 recruits. Playing against Marquette in such a venue, with so many people in the seats, creates a proverbial "field of dreams" for the teams we play. It also manifests any hidden chips on opposing team's shoulders who want to show up the home team who didn't recruit them and steal their thunder. Having said the above I don't think it's a coincidence that we lost to St. John's, Creighton and Georgetown last year at home and were all teams we were favored to beat at the time. I specifically remember watching the Georgetown players last year leave the floor like they just won their Super Bowl. So far this year we lost to Providence at home and possibly got DePaul's best game of the season as well.
I think your stretching a LOT here. Fiserv is not some hallowed arena kids dream about playing in more than any others. Phog, Cameron, Pauley, Rupp, the Dean Dome, Assembly Hall (IU), the Carrier Dome, MSG and newer classics like Breslin are arenas kids dream about playing at and get jacked up to play in. Fiserv, just another road game. Creighton isn't going to consider it any more special considering they sell out their 17K seat arena every night and St. John's plays at MSG.
Anyone know who the most effective person/office to contact about this would be? This has been an issue time and time again and I'd definitely like to make my voice heard.
This.Move Dick or Dave or even the kid out of the Drink Wisconsibly stand down stairs to the craft section upstairs. One of those guys can handle the volume and kill it.PTM comes with solutions to your problems.
I'm pretty sure that would be called a knife
In the modern world you're talking a macheteFor a literal sword, Germans who couldn't afford a forged double-edged sword often carried a "bauernwehr" (peasant weapon) or Lange Messer (long knife)I am uncertain if France/England/Spain etc. had similar weapons as I haven't studied their medieval history as much but I would assume so.Hopefully this thread has now been successfully derailed in the grand tradition of scoop.
I DONT CARE WHAT ANYONE SAYS...MARQUETTE SHOULD BE PLAYING AT US CELLULAR OR PANTHER ARENA AND MOVE UWM BACK ON CAMPUS.I said this when they were at the Bradley Center. Arena's like Fiserv can be too big for college basketball. MU should not be in an NBA arena. Its nice and all but too verbose for college kids. Make them earn it.To me a typical college basketball crowd should only be what they have at Duke or Kansas about 11,000 or no more than 13,000 students. It's not so much the number of fans there as much as it is the college aged students energy and atmosphere. Not filled with alumni afraid to stand up and get into it!The first 20 rows all around the lower bowl should go to STUDENTS ONLY SECTION, and the one side only for the band. Older or alumni must sit rows 20 and up...TV camera angles should only get the lower bowl in view. They should go back to the Milwaukee Arena...more of a pit and more of a home court advantage there than Fiserv. It keeps them humble and hard working...and great seats for everyone! Not to mention the nostalgic element that appeals to me with it.
Once again the most insightful and knowledgeable poster on the board is proven right once again. Today we got Seton Hall's best game of the season as big Fiserv games consistently produce this from our opponents. Why because kids grow up with posters of NBA players on their walls and dream of playing in the NBA someday. The poster who said playing at Michigan State or the other mentioned college arenas was a bigger setting than playing at a sold out Fiserv is laughably wrong. When you take a team full of tough, gritty inner-city kids like Seton Hall and put them in this glamorous "Park Avenue" setting they're going to come out guns blazing as they want to take what you have. At the same time when you have a soft program, with a soft coach who are used to living on "Park Avenue" with regular crowds of 15,000 plus, catered meals on charted flights, personal chefs at the Al cooking their meals, etc.... then you're going to have a lot of uninspired performances as our players are spoiled and not hungry.Fiserv is great for recruiting. However unless we have a tough, taskmaster, disciplinarian like Buzz who kept players hungry and on their toes then we might as well just pencil in five home losses a year as the new norm.
You realize Seton Hall is less of an urban school than Marquette and they also play in a huge professional arena? But the rest of that post is just as moronic and borderline racist so it’s probably not worth getting into. But given your username, it’s a pretty low effort troll, so nice work you absolute clown
Hurry run to your safe space and project some more!
Seton Hall’s starting 5 features a European who went to prep school, a PG who went to prep school, a center from suburban Jamaica, and a dude from Delaware. Powell is the only starter you can say is from a gritty area, and not “inner city”. Their 6th man is from Long Island.Where are all the gritty inner city stars you’re talking about? That play for a rough and tumble school in a home gym with no fans and probably have to eat McDonalds after games and bus back from Milwaukee?
Folks, let's make factual statements instead of emotive ones after frustrating losses. Marquette has played 35 times at Fiserv Forum and sports a record of 29-6 in those outings. The six losses are by a combined 27 points, or 4.5/game. Two of the defeats have come by a single point and another by a deuce. I cannot believe people would complain about playing in one of the nicest arenas in the country. This years squad is not as talented as the top three teams in the conference and that has much more to do with losing a few home games than Marquette's lack of a home court advantage. As Jim Calhoun once exclaimed, "Get some facts and come back and see me!"