A Modest Proposal: The Bucknell Plan

[Trotsky]

Estero has been a great thing for the program; contrast the S*IT and the other holiday tournies we've endured over the years.  It's also nice to have a defacto "hosted" (in this case, co-hosted) tourny, which could never happen at home.

As far as revenue goes, hoops teams often pay patsies to come in and get slaughtered -- one joke is that the biggest statue on the St. Leo's campus is of John Thompson handing them money to lose at Georgetown.  If revenue is an issue, perhaps the Red can get a slice of the road gate.  After all, as long as it's home only, there's an attraction in it for say a WCHA team -- a much higher chance of a win against a PWR team, for one thing.

Even with 5k, Lynah is no match for the giant arenas in the west (and airfare for 30 from Grand Forks to Ithaca can't be cheap, either), so I don't see the Red attracting home-and-homes unless some of the CCHA teams with which Schafer has contacts radcially improve.

This becomes less of a problem if the ECAC and the eastern "minor conferences" keep improving, and scheduling them helps them improve (like the Marshall Plan, "charity" usually stems from self-interest).  But many of us don't see the Sacred Hearts and Niagaras ever becoming genuinely solid programs, as they have neither the tradition nor the name nor the resources of "established" teams.

[Rita]

[quote Trotsky]

As far as revenue goes, hoops teams often pay patsies to come in and get slaughtered -- one joke is that the biggest statue on the St. Leo's campus is of John Thompson handing them money to lose at Georgetown.  If revenue is an issue, perhaps the Red can get a slice of the road gate.  After all, as long as it's home only, there's an attraction in it for say a WCHA team -- a much higher chance of a win against a PWR team, for one thing.

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so how much $$$$ did the cornell men's b-ball team make on monday in seattle (87-71 loss to the huskies)?  ;-)  Even though they were sacraficial lambs, I hope they at least got to enjoy the fine cuisine (thai food!) in seattle. :-D

[Rita]

just looked at the cornell schedule, and it seems they have invited their own patsy to newman arena... Keuka college. ah, what goes around, comes around.

[Trotsky]

Their website.  Oh God, they are so cuute! :-)   http://www.keuka.edu/

[ebilmes]

[quote Rita]just looked at the cornell schedule, and it seems they have invited their own patsy to newman arena... Keuka college.[/quote]

Good thing, too. Keuka is undefeated at home this year (5-1 overall).