Oregon Ducks

[EdubAlum]

I'll be there, anyone else?

 

[LDopaPDX]

I wish I could make it, but have a late afernoon meeting. Since we got beat by Gonzaga, I hope we can at least beat one of the two-headed antichrist.

There are very few teams I'll admit to HATING... not just disliking, but outright hating, but Oregon is one of them (Gonzaga the only other I can think of...)

 

[EWURanger]

Agreed on Gonzaga........I cannot stand that school or their herd of Spokanite band-wagon fans, most of which never even went to school there. :roll:

 

[EdubAlum]

I wish I could make it, but have a late afernoon meeting. Since we got beat by Gonzaga, I hope we can at least beat one of the two-headed antichrist.

There are very few teams I'll admit to HATING... not just disliking, but outright hating, but Oregon is one of them (Gonzaga the only other I can think of...)

I don't dislike either school, but their fans are pretty obnoxious

 

[clawman1]

How are the Ducks? What are our chances of a win?

 

[kalm]

Agreed on Gonzaga........I cannot stand that school or their herd of Spokanite band-wagon fans, most of which never even went to school there. :roll:

I hope we can attract a herd of Spokanite bandwagon fans who never even went here either. Just sayin'.

 

[EWURanger]

Agreed on Gonzaga........I cannot stand that school or their herd of Spokanite band-wagon fans, most of which never even went to school there. :roll:

I hope we can attract a herd of Spokanite bandwagon fans who never even went here either. Just sayin'.

The thing is, we don't really need to. While it would be nice to get a larger number of casual sports fans out from Spokane, that number isn't going to increase massively without a number of years of basketball relevance.

The key in immediate improvement is attracting a larger % of the 35k + alums in the Spokane area alone, that would do wonders for our attendance numbers in all sports. I know there's more to it than that, but we needs our alums to start going to EWU basketball games and STOP going to Gonzaga stuff. That was my point.

We made some nice strides in football attendance this season.....I hope the students and alums alike will support what at first glance seems to be an invigorated basketball program. That goes for the women's team, too. They look like they're going to have a good squad.

 

[EdubAlum]

How are the Ducks? What are our chances of a win?

vegas has Ducks by 12.5 or 13 depending on the line. I think that's pretty realistic.

 

[kalm]

Agreed on Gonzaga........I cannot stand that school or their herd of Spokanite band-wagon fans, most of which never even went to school there. :roll:

I hope we can attract a herd of Spokanite bandwagon fans who never even went here either. Just sayin'.

The thing is, we don't really need to. While it would be nice to get a larger number of casual sports fans out from Spokane, that number isn't going to increase massively without a number of years of basketball relevance.

The key in immediate improvement is attracting a larger % of the 35k + alums in the Spokane area alone, that would do wonders for our attendance numbers in all sports. I know there's more to it than that, but we needs our alums to start going to EWU basketball games and STOP going to Gonzaga stuff. That was my point.

We made some nice strides in football attendance this season.....I hope the students and alums alike will support what at first glance seems to be an invigorated basketball program. That goes for the women's team, too. They look like they're going to have a good squad.

I was thinking both in regards to football and hoops. So I agree with what you are saying here. As always the key is winning. We need to establish some relavancy by competing for conference titles and tournament bids and re-establishing some serious rivalries before alumni outside the core will choose a trip out to Cheney over watching the Zags on TV.

 

[Screamin_Eagle174]

Agreed on Gonzaga........I cannot stand that school or their herd of Spokanite band-wagon fans, most of which never even went to school there. :roll:

I hope we can attract a herd of Spokanite bandwagon fans who never even went here either. Just sayin'.

The thing is, we don't really need to. While it would be nice to get a larger number of casual sports fans out from Spokane, that number isn't going to increase massively without a number of years of basketball relevance.

The key in immediate improvement is attracting a larger % of the 35k + alums in the Spokane area alone, that would do wonders for our attendance numbers in all sports. I know there's more to it than that, but we needs our alums to start going to EWU basketball games and STOP going to Gonzaga stuff. That was my point.

We made some nice strides in football attendance this season.....I hope the students and alums alike will support what at first glance seems to be an invigorated basketball program. That goes for the women's team, too. They look like they're going to have a good squad.

I was thinking both in regards to football and hoops. So I agree with what you are saying here. As always the key is winning. We need to establish some relavancy by competing for conference titles and tournament bids and re-establishing some serious rivalries before alumni outside the core will choose a trip out to Cheney over watching the Zags on TV.

Well, at our level the key is winning. Ultimately, what draws fans is relevancy. Sure, for the fans that show up right now, EWU will always be relevant to them because they're diehard alums. But the casual fan want their team(s) to be relevant on the big stage. At our level of football/basketball, winning is key to relevancy, unlike the big BCS conference, hence why WSU still draws people away from us, despite their lack of winning.

 

[LDopaPDX]

Agreed on Gonzaga........I cannot stand that school or their herd of Spokanite band-wagon fans, most of which never even went to school there. :roll:

I hope we can attract a herd of Spokanite bandwagon fans who never even went here either. Just sayin'.

The thing is, we don't really need to. While it would be nice to get a larger number of casual sports fans out from Spokane, that number isn't going to increase massively without a number of years of basketball relevance.

The key in immediate improvement is attracting a larger % of the 35k + alums in the Spokane area alone, that would do wonders for our attendance numbers in all sports. I know there's more to it than that, but we needs our alums to start going to EWU basketball games and STOP going to Gonzaga stuff. That was my point.

We made some nice strides in football attendance this season.....I hope the students and alums alike will support what at first glance seems to be an invigorated basketball program. That goes for the women's team, too. They look like they're going to have a good squad.

I was thinking both in regards to football and hoops. So I agree with what you are saying here. As always the key is winning. We need to establish some relavancy by competing for conference titles and tournament bids and re-establishing some serious rivalries before alumni outside the core will choose a trip out to Cheney over watching the Zags on TV.

Well, at our level the key is winning. Ultimately, what draws fans is relevancy. Sure, for the fans that show up right now, EWU will always be relevant to them because they're diehard alums. But the casual fan want their team(s) to be relevant on the big stage. At our level of football/basketball, winning is key to relevancy, unlike the big BCS conference, hence why WSU still draws people away from us, despite their lack of winning.

Yup. Well said.

I think that people are starting to gravitate toward the football program because people now have an EXPECTATION that Eastern will make the playoffs. They know when they buy tickets they are going to more than likely see a good product. This is buoyed by the fact there aren't a lot of quality football programs in comparison to basketball programs-- something like 125 less D-I programs in football than b-ball.

With basketball, I think Eastern has to start making the NCAA tourney once every 3 years or so to gain relevancy, as well as occasionally beating Gonzaga or Pac-12 teams. Winning the Big Sky once in a decade and losing 20 in a row to the Pac-12 and Gonzaga simply won't get it done.

 

[ewunerd]

With basketball, I think Eastern has to start making the NCAA tourney once every 3 years or so to gain relevancy, as well as occasionally beating Gonzaga or Pac-12 teams. Winning the Big Sky once in a decade and losing 20 in a row to the Pac-12 and Gonzaga simply won't get it done.

This. Or at least win the Big Sky more often and host some tournaments. The turnout when we hosted back in 04 was AMAZING. No denying that Spokane is a horrible bandwagon town but all we need is just a few good years in a row to get some of that bandwagon goodness. Unfortunately for the football folk Spokane seems to be much more of a basketball town though.

 

[EWURanger]

Yeah, this is going to be a rough one. It's likely Oregon tries to bang us on the interior early and often after watching us play Gonzaga. We can't get into that kind of early foul trouble again to have any shot in this one. It's also likely they guard us a lot tighter on the perimeter than GU did.

 

[marceagfan5]

Not on big sky tv...anyone have any links?

 

[Screamin_Eagle174]

Not on big sky tv...anyone have any links?

If you want to pay for it...

http://www.goducks.com/gamecenter/console.dbml?db_oem_id=500&spKey=M_BASKETBALL&KEY=" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

 

[Screamin_Eagle174]

6 steals so far for EWU. :rockon:

 

[Screamin_Eagle174]

10:00 to play in the first half, EWU up 20-19 after a bucket by Colimon. EWU has been leading most of the game so far.

 

[Screamin_Eagle174]

Make that 7 steals... with a bucket at the end. Chiverton already with 8 points.

 

[EWURanger]

Ugh, fouls starting to mount up.....thought they were going to let these teams play a little.

 

[EWURanger]

Well, up 35-30 with 5 minutes to go in the first. Playing hard.