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Conference Tournament

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clawman1

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location, location, location.
The Big Sky has had a problem drawing fans at recent tournaments locations.
Has it been tried to award the conference winner NEXT years tournament? That way fans could make travel plans earlier than the current winners home court, and the conference champ is awarded in some way, and maybe maybe attendance would increase.
 
It seems Sac State screwed over the rest of the Big Sky a few years ago when there was a panic to set up the conference tourney in their student center—only to have Sac collapse at the end of the season and not host the tourney. We have some mega-fucking retards running the Big Sky Conference thinking that they will fill up even half a gym at a neutral location. It’s embarrassing for our conference.
 
clawman said:
location, location, location.
The Big Sky has had a problem drawing fans at recent tournaments locations.
Has it been tried to award the conference winner NEXT years tournament? That way fans could make travel plans earlier than the current winners home court, and the conference champ is awarded in some way, and maybe maybe attendance would increase.
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We just need to go back to the old model. I've been saying that since the day they announced the Reno thing. We had the best model in the nation as a conference and we threw it away. Still shaking my head. With the old model, venues were always packed for the hosting team's games and it was actually an exciting atmosphere. How many years do we have to wait till we switch back?

go eags!
 
Rafter_Reese said:
clawman said:
location, location, location.
The Big Sky has had a problem drawing fans at recent tournaments locations.
Has it been tried to award the conference winner NEXT years tournament? That way fans could make travel plans earlier than the current winners home court, and the conference champ is awarded in some way, and maybe maybe attendance would increase.
Click to expand...
We just need to go back to the old model. I've been saying that since the day they announced the Reno thing. We had the best model in the nation as a conference and we threw it away. Still shaking my head. With the old model, venues were always packed for the hosting team's games and it was actually an exciting atmosphere. How many years do we have to wait till we switch back?

go eags!
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Have you checked what the price of a plane tickets to Greely or Missoula two or three days before the date? How many people live in the Greely area that really give a s#i!? That is why it was changed.
 
clawman said:
Rafter_Reese said:
clawman said:
location, location, location.
The Big Sky has had a problem drawing fans at recent tournaments locations.
Has it been tried to award the conference winner NEXT years tournament? That way fans could make travel plans earlier than the current winners home court, and the conference champ is awarded in some way, and maybe maybe attendance would increase.
Click to expand...
We just need to go back to the old model. I've been saying that since the day they announced the Reno thing. We had the best model in the nation as a conference and we threw it away. Still shaking my head. With the old model, venues were always packed for the hosting team's games and it was actually an exciting atmosphere. How many years do we have to wait till we switch back?

go eags!
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Have you checked what the price of a plane tickets to Greely or Missoula two or three days before the date? How many people live in the Greely area that really give a s#i!? That is why it was changed.
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Moot point on price if no one is flying to Reno or Boise.
I get the pros an cons of both but the big sky isn't a a basketball conference (hell, is the PAC-12 conference going to even be half full?). Hosting at the regular season winner's house is the best way to do it for a league like the big sky.
 
My issue isn’t so much attendance based, it’s competition based. Winning the conference is basically no better than finishing fifth. It renders the regular season so meaningless. A conference regular season champ deserves an advantage, and if a team can upset the conf champ on their home court, then they earn it.

This is especially true for a one bid conference like the Big Sky where only the conf champ is moving on to the tourney. Let’s get real, no tourney other than the Big Dance is worth a shit.
 
Tourney Location is a tough argument...I think the conference needs to do what it can to protect the best teams (hosting at the 1 seed site works)...on the other hand, the 1 seed won the tourney every year in reno. Problem with Reno, and I have a feeling Boise will be the same is attendance was absolutely awful...

The best thing for the Big Sky is to put its best team in the NCAA every year and give us a chance, a win or two would raise the conference profile a bit and help the better schools out. If anyone besides the Griz win the tourney this year, they are probably playing in the play in game and then being sent to Salt Lake to play the Zags...

However...I think most years, the Big sky's top 3-4 teams are worthy of a 12-14 seed, this year everyone just stunk in non-conf...

If Spokane would have bid to host the womens tourney at the Arena rather than Cheney, I believe Spokane would have been selected and would have been a great site for the tourney...
 
grizbeateags said:
It seems Sac State screwed over the rest of the Big Sky a few years ago when there was a panic to set up the conference tourney in their student center—only to have Sac collapse at the end of the season and not host the tourney. We have some mega-fucking retards running the Big Sky Conference thinking that they will fill up even half a gym at a neutral location. It’s embarrassing for our conference.
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Ya that 2015 fiasco could have been a disaster and its one of the big reasons the tourney moved.
 
Besides getting a ring and a banner (which is cool) winning the BSC doesn't mean squat compared to adding the chance to getting into NCAA's with home court advantage (very really cool). Adds drama to season end as well as the incentive.
Watching tourny games with nobody in attendance sucks.
Watching EWU storm the court at home in 2004 to me is a top ten EWU athletic highlight. Also, watching the first half tied at 36 vs Ok. St. in NCAA tourny rates up there...second half not so much.
 
Guys it's all about locking down the money...sponsorships!!!! Got to go where the money is and what they can get from the local sports commissions. With a week to go with old model imagine how hard that was. Needed to be done for hoops plus tv...set up and travel beforehand.
 
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