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I’d schedule a quality tournament (3 games) each year, add couple home and homes with P6 teams (alternating years - 2 games), the B1G-ACC challenge (1 game), and then 5 home cupcakes. (Potential Gavitt game in there to replace one of the 5 home cupcakes.) The 5 home cupcakes can be pretty much...

What I said was that they are the same in that neither does anything to help the program. Is that wrong?

I'll give you that it was maybe taking it a little far to say that. I'd still say the "didn't go to UST/have any connection to UST, but want to see that game" group is pretty darn small. You could probably say the same for NDSU/SDSU/USD/UND/Drake/etc. And again, the main thing to me is that it...

Well, you asked me two questions and I responded to both at the same time. To answer the single question this time: Yes, I am opposed to scheduling UST. For many reasons. One of them is that there is no reason to help them along. Kansas won't schedule Wichita State for the same reason. UST...

If you want to see them play then go buy a ticket for a UST game. They are cheap and plenty of seats available.

I'm opposed to thinking that we need to schedule either one. They are the same to me as neither does anything to help the Gopher program.

Where is the thread about scheduling Corpus Christi?

Yes. Those are no different to me. The only people who want to see that game have some connection to UST. I don't.

And UST has almost a thousand empty seats in an arena that doesn't even seat 2000. Any notion that a game against them would help ticket sales is misguided. The only reason to play them is to throw them a bone. And last time I checked, that's not our responsibility.

We pay every nonconf home opponent an appearance fee unless there is a home/home agreement. They opponent pays their own lodging/travel/etc.

Maybe a few thousand in the metro with degrees from both. Still talking about a relatively small group. How many of those people would buy ticket to the game? How many of those who buy tickets aren't already doing it? How many are buying through the athletic department vs third party (we all...

Look at the ticket sales of Gopher FB vs the regional teams compared to other nonconf games vs lower tier opponents. No noticeable difference. It's a lose/lose for the bball team too. Win = you were supposed to win, no one cares. Lose = you lost to a smaller school that you should beat...

I'd like to see the numbers on this. Not sure it's as high as you seem to think

That's not how it works

Why?

Zero reason to schedule them. UST had 1097 in attendance in an arena with 1800 capacity at their last home game against a D1 opponent. No evidence that playing them would be any different than playing South Dakota or UMKC in terms of ticket sales.

I believe those games were only counted as forfeits for the Big East standings. The NCAA was already counting them as “no contest” games

Don’t know. His resume isn’t really all that impressive, but Coyle obviously didn’t hire the guy with the most impressive head coaching resume. (Not meant to be a shot at Johnson, just the reality.) Gates, Dutcher, and Smith were contacted to interview. Gates refused, and the other two were set...

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