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I'm certainly not making excuses, I've said he deserved to be accountable and I had no problem with him getting fired.
Half my CU apparel is from free stuff at basketball games, but there's a big difference between an all expenses trip to Vegas or LA versus a free t-shirt, slice of pizza, or a burrito.
It was a half-a-year later, but I agree with you there. He's getting fired primarily for football, why is he being allowed to find the next football coach? And for all of you who are going to say it's "business related reasons," that wouldn't be an issue if football was successful.
I can get on board with that, I still think right when you hire a football coach isn't the time to fire him (before he even coaches a game). Dr. Phil even said he wanted CU athletics run more like a business. But still, he's not fired if football is going well IMO.
Food cart gate? No coach with no ties to CU is going to pick CU over Tennessee.
'Tini was tellings us earlier in the year how it was finals time and they would show up once conference play began. There's always some excuse -- too much homework, Broncos are playing, it's too cold out, etc. The truth of the matter is people would rather do other things than go to Coors and see the men's basketball team play. Nothing wrong with that, just shows you where people's priorities are.
This really gets to the heart of it. The students have voted with their feet about what their priority is. Therefore, I really never want to hear from anyone ever again about how we have the best student section in the country, or that the school ought to think about moving the students out from behind the basket and onto the floor on the sideline. Frankly, we need to start discussing selling the back half of the student section as general admission. There was more demand than there was supply of tickets from the ticket buying public this year, and the school is going to make more money on the seats if they sell them to the general public. The students have demonstrated that for all but the biggest of games, they can only get about 1,500 students to a game. So be it. Sell the tickets to people who actually want to be there.
They did that at UNC I believe when they saw a lack of attendance from the students. It should be communicated to the students how there is a wait list and if they don't show, they'll sell seats to the general public.
Precisely. It is a matter of priorities. If it isn't a priority to a lot of them, that is fine, but don't expect a ticket to be there for you for a Kansas/Arizona game if you can't be bothered to show up for any other games. Don't try to drum up support to say you're the best student section in America when the huge swaths of embarrassingly empty seats in your section clearly state that you aren't.
I remember Ron Franklin saying on a telecast maybe 4-5 years ago that the reason basketball couldn't be big here was because of skiing. Yes, I think it plays a part in it, but when the KEG was rocking last year, they could've been on the slopes instead as well.
