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Why is Marquette not on here? I've always wondered that. MU is also not on ESPNChicago's website despite that fact that Notre Dame is on there, SIU-Edwardsville (maybe its Carbondale, I forget at the moment) is on there, as is U of Illinois and Ill State.
MU is closer to the Loop than all of these schools and I would make a bet that we have a larger percentage of our students who come from Chicagoland than any of the schools listed above (maybe with the exception of UIUC)
I bet Loyola, IIT, DePaul and UIC have more from Chicago than MU does.
Quote from: ElDonBDon on May 05, 2013, 09:17:59 PM
Why is Marquette not on here? I've always wondered that. MU is also not on ESPNChicago's website despite that fact that Notre Dame is on there, SIU-Edwardsville (maybe its Carbondale, I forget at the moment) is on there, as is U of Illinois and Ill State.
MU is closer to the Loop than all of these schools and I would make a bet that we have a larger percentage of our students who come from Chicagoland than any of the schools listed above (maybe with the exception of UIUC)
For ND and U of I, the closest major media market is Chicago. MU is an its own major media market, Milwaukee (major enough to have a baseball and basketball team).
Quote from: Terror Skink on May 05, 2013, 09:22:13 PM
I bet Loyola, IIT, DePaul and UIC have more from Chicago than MU does.
And you would win that bet. By "schools listed above" I meant the schools that I listed (SIU, Ill State, etc), not all of the ones listed in the original post.
QuoteQuote from: AnotherMU84 on May 05, 2013, 10:13:50 PM
For ND and U of I, the closest major media market is Chicago. MU is an its own major media market, Milwaukee (major enough to have a baseball and basketball team).
Exactly. It's still frustrating to see a write-up of a UIC-Valpo game, and have to search for the Big East results to simply see the Marquette score in the Chicago Tribune/Sun Times.
There's a lot of small schools missing on that list, and I'm surprissed that if Notre Dame is listed that Northern Illinois isn't listed.
Quote from: Wally Schroeder on May 06, 2013, 12:00:11 PM
Exactly. It's still frustrating to see a write-up of a UIC-Valpo game, and have to search for the Big East results to simply see the Marquette score in the Chicago Tribune/Sun Times.
Both papers are bankrupt and readership is hemorrhaging. I think you gave another reason why.
Quote from: AnotherMU84 on May 06, 2013, 01:27:58 PM
Both papers are bankrupt and readership is hemorrhaging. I think you gave another reason why.
A blurb about the MU Game is always in the "other area teams" section of the Sun-Times.
Quote from: ElDonBDon on May 05, 2013, 09:17:59 PM
Why is Marquette not on here? I've always wondered that. MU is also not on ESPNChicago's website despite that fact that Notre Dame is on there, SIU-Edwardsville (maybe its Carbondale, I forget at the moment) is on there, as is U of Illinois and Ill State.
MU is closer to the Loop than all of these schools and I would make a bet that we have a larger percentage of our students who come from Chicagoland than any of the schools listed above (maybe with the exception of UIUC)
? You think that there are more MU fans than Notre Dame fans in Chicago?! No.
Quote from: RawdogDX on May 07, 2013, 06:44:01 PM
? You think that there are more MU fans than Notre Dame fans in Chicago?! No.
No, I don't think that. However, I do think we are closer than ND and do have more fans in Chi than either SIU or Bradley.