Our attendance has been trending down for over the last decade. Sustained losing will do that. We actually saw an increase over average earlier in the year beating those team you hated and winning built excitement and brought in increased revenue. I have no doubt that we Iāll close the season with smaller crowds as the conference record has been poor.
Exactly. Are you about winning against low level competition to build excitement, like say Belmont Abbey? Or you about getting a coach that can win big games, and take his lumps against big time competition, like say Woodard? You better believe that you wonāt fill Halton or the basketball coffers with Ron Sanchez and his Detroit Mercy schedule
Dusty May looks like a genius for getting the ālost to a non-D-Iā opponent out of the way in his very first game as FAU coach. Of course, winning after four years of mediocrity helps too!
clt says beer and wine sales should be helping the bottom line
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Still hoping I bet
Look we arenāt scheduling many top flight programs while we suck. We have to build wins vs whoever we can schedule. It takes two to schedule. Once we are of more value to other programs we can start scheduling better teams.
Whatās more important than who we play is that we win vs who we do play. It gets our supporters and fans excited and it makes the case for a better schedule the following year so that teams wonāt fear a net ranking anchor by playing us.
We canāt just make better teams play us.
For the record I like winning. Iād like to win more. If we win all things get better. Crowds. Schedules. Recruiting. Revenue. So yeah I enjoyed the winning earlier in the season. Halton was fun. I enjoyed that. Itās sad you didnāt.
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Who is the āweā now that schedules basketball? Living in your fears is no way to live, not personally or if we is a once successful basketball program. I donāt like losing, but I donāt view success as running away from what you think you aspire to become, to find the easiest win.
You can attend our nothing burger basketball program with the others that were so fired up after winning most of the games they were supposed to win. No matter how much you pat yourselves on the back, high five and discuss how well our team is playing against minor talents, I aināt buying it, many more Niners wonāt buy it, and you damn sure bet the house that Charlotte Metro will continue to NOT CARE. You know this.
Without butts in the seats, the program is losing more $$ than the root cause, which is currently Ron Sanchez.
We as in the school.
I know where we need to be. You seem to think we snap our fingers and get there. If it was that easy we would have already done that.
We have to beat the people we can a schedule simple as that. We saw attendance and interest go up earlier in the season while winning. Hopefully the fact we played well during ooc assists in the schedule next season being a little more difficult while also providing wins so that we can build on the up tick in interest this season, which was butts in the seats and revenue.
Iām sorry we canāt magically make a top 25 schedule and pick up 5 Q1 wins just because thatās what you want that.
None of us penciled in NCAAs earlier in the season and none of us were sold on Ron. All we said is we enjoyed winning and would see how conference season turned out.
If you want to beat your chest that you didnāt enjoy the wins and we werenāt good in conference then go ahead. Thatās a rough life as a fan and contributes to why you seem so miserable.
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Where the easy schedule got you and we.
One game half full 5,148 vs APP
One game 4,037 vs ranked FAU
3 games over 3,000 and under 3,200
7 games in the 2k zip code.
Whoās beating the chest? What are we winning? And yes, I do believe the right head coach could turn this program into a winner in one to two years. I know Sanchez will never
Good lord who here do you think are big Ron fans?
Who are you trying to convince?
We all know where we are and we all have eyes.
I donāt think anyone here will shed a tear when Ron moves on, whenever that happens.
I think a coach could turn us around in two years. Until that happens Iām going to hope for and enjoy the wins we get. Winning vs bad teams is the formula to win vs better teams the next year. Iām going to enjoy the fun games we have, because the alternative seems pretty awful to me. If I canāt enjoy wins then whatās the point of being a fan.
Fwiw last year we averaged 2532 so anything above that is a positive. CUSA average last year was 3k.
Technically Ron and the schedule have tunrned us into winners this year. As far as attendance, the league did us 0 favors. Our 1st two home conference games were scheduled during Christmas break while we were rolling attendance wise compared to recent years, so we took a hit with those, we had a 4 PM Monday game, with school closed, again an attendance hit. The FAU game came while Aly was out with covid and we had just lost the FIU game we would have won with him playing, which took the air out of the public interest in what could have been a big attendance game against a top 20 team. YOU CANāT SCHEDULE TEAMS THAT DONāT WANT TO PLAY NO MATTER WHO THE COACH IS! With our winning recird and our NET finally getting up above 100 by year end, and moving to the AAC, it should make creating a stonger OCC schedule more likely. We will still be playing teams around the 27xxx area and in state because that is where weāre located. There will be more local interest in playing App & Davidson than playing Hofstra or Akron or Indiana State so get used to it. Itās the type OCC schedule weāve always played and I fully expect us to ditch Detroit Mercy, Monmouth & probably Presby next year. Hopefully we can pick up games against area teams like Furman, UNCG and maybe College of Charleston, with all being HH series. Ron has had a deeper hole to dig out of than CoC or most other teams have had. The offense is running better this year, we just need to get better at finishing, hitting the wide open shots, making free throws, not tightening up when the game gets tight ( all of which contribute to the long stretches of not scoring. Who knows, with new conference and winning record, Ron can bring in those 1-3 better recruits that finally get us over the hump, loosen up the offense even more. Itās kind of a chicken or the egg type thing. What I donāt want to see us do is start all over again when we are getting closer to where most of us want to be. We will never be and never were a perennial top 25 team, so for those that think we were or demand that we be again, you will never be happy.
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You may have good points. I donāt know. Your posts are unreadable.
Paragraphs are a good thing. Otherwise, you make some good points.
I am not convinced that Ron can get us over the hump. The challenges we see this year are the same heās had since he has been here. I think heās gotten the program solidified after the near mutiny under Price, but his offense and our substandard defense just doesnāt build any confidence in his ability to get us to the next step back.
Heās had an all conference player in Jahmir and again with Aly and has one of the best offensive players in the league in Brice and we have absolutely nothing to show for it.
Make a run in the conference tournament and I might can get onboard.
I and many others seem convinced Ron will never āget us over the humpā. If you still need more to be convinced one way or the other, good for you.
Every year is an opportunity to get us back. This year isnāt over yet. I donāt think he can do it, but I am here for the ride. If we win the conference tournament I will be elated. And if he does that he earns another year.
Itās just another disappointing year to me. Itās baseball and golf season in my head
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How many here had people they know that used to follow our basketball program and attend at least game or few, but now do not and no longer care enough to be disappointed?
I had a few folks who had not attended in years that came during our OOC and said I forogt how much fun Halton can be.
That doesnāt fit what ya want, but itās way easier to get folks to come back to watch a team that is winning.
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Attendance is down all over college basketball. Just look out there at all the articles one can find on the trend of decreased attendance.
Winning will bring people back, but also who you play has a role in it as well. Next year you will have people show up simple because its Memphis, Wichita St, Navy, ECU and Temple. All those have a brand name or in ECU case are in state which could lead to more students/āwalk-upsā in attendance.
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