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Topic: Ohio @ EMU Picked for ESPNU

Topic: Ohio @ EMU Picked for ESPNU

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anorris
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Ohio @ EMU Picked for ESPNU

Posted: 1/5/2014 11:49:37 AM

1/25, 11am.

shabamon
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RE: Ohio @ EMU Picked for ESPNU

Posted: 1/5/2014 12:55:24 PM

I can't wait to see fake Jeremy Guy's twitter that day. How is a game in front of 600 people going to showcase the conference favorably to the nation?

anorris
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RE: Ohio @ EMU Picked for ESPNU

Posted: 1/5/2014 12:56:27 PM

shabamon wrote:

I can't wait to see fake Jeremy Guy's twitter that day. How is a game in front of 600 people going to showcase the conference favorably to the nation?

You think they'll draw 600 at 11am?

Rest of the games that day are pretty boring, though, that probably is the best game.

Last Edited: 1/5/2014 12:57:40 PM by anorris

Alan Swank
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RE: Ohio @ EMU Picked for ESPNU

Posted: 1/5/2014 6:06:47 PM

shabamon wrote:

I can't wait to see fake Jeremy Guy's twitter that day. How is a game in front of 600 people going to showcase the conference favorably to the nation?

Right up there with the league's bowl performances.

It's one game of a million and west of the Mississippi, folks are still in bed or on there way to brunch.

Recovering Journalist
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RE: Ohio @ EMU Picked for ESPNU

Posted: 1/6/2014 8:50:39 AM

I'm going with one or two other people. We might double the attendance.

OU_Country
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RE: Ohio @ EMU Picked for ESPNU

Posted: 1/6/2014 9:00:13 AM

Unfortunately, I don't think anyone making the choice is seeing how it will look to have a big arena with mostly empty seats. Instead, they're only seeing an improved EMU team hosting one of the conference's best teams.

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RE: Ohio @ EMU Picked for ESPNU

Posted: 1/6/2014 10:04:41 AM

Playing this in the 11 A.M. timeslot makes a lot of sense. No matter what day or time the game at EMU, it is going to be an mostly empty arena.
While some schools can fill oddly timed games, I think viewers are more likely to forgive an empty arena at 11 A.M. So putting an EMU home game in there is a perfect disguise to their underlying problems.

Also, anyone see the Treg tweet about Ohio fans outnumbering the home team's fans? I have been impressed with our road crowds in hoops the past couple years. Our MACC crowd last year against Akron was insane.
Plenty of Bobcats in range of Kent for this game Wednesday!

I've seen crazier things happen.

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RE: Ohio @ EMU Picked for ESPNU

Posted: 1/6/2014 12:26:31 PM

I don't know how ESPN selects their pick up games through out the year. Whether ESPN picks it themselves or the MAC picks them, I am willing to bet a significant amount of money that whoever makes the final decision is only concerned about good basketball play, not by how many butts there are in the seats, no matter how "impressive" it may look for the conference.

I for one and THRILLED we got picked up for ESPNU. I know we get at least 1-2 a year, but anytime we're on national TV, I get excited.

JSF
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RE: Ohio @ EMU Picked for ESPNU

Posted: 1/6/2014 1:27:04 PM

Nobody watching the TV cares how full the arena is unless it's setting some sort of record or they're a navel-gazing message board poster.

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RE: Ohio @ EMU Picked for ESPNU

Posted: 1/6/2014 2:32:41 PM

The Optimist wrote:

I think Treg's quote was about the noise made by the Ohio fan contingent, not that they actually outnumbered the home fans.

Hypatia
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RE: Ohio @ EMU Picked for ESPNU

Posted: 1/6/2014 11:26:06 PM

So pumped for this. Going to be in Vegas that weekend with another Bobcat. Plan on waking up and getting breakfast, going to the sports book, putting $20 on the 'Cats and starting to drink.

So pumped!!!

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RE: Ohio @ EMU Picked for ESPNU

Posted: 1/7/2014 2:57:56 AM

Here's EMU's home attendance so far this year-

2,677 Albion
506 Concordia
793 Robert Morris
815 Cleveland State
810 TX- Arlington
1,314 #21 UMass
583 Green Bay
429 Rochester

I wish we could organize a road trip for the Ozone and roll in there 4K strong and just wreck their house.

MY STATE. MY TEAM.

Andrew Ruck
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RE: Ohio @ EMU Picked for ESPNU

Posted: 1/7/2014 8:25:14 AM

That is incredible when you consider the team is not that bad.

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anorris
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RE: Ohio @ EMU Picked for ESPNU

Posted: 1/7/2014 1:51:05 PM

perimeterpost wrote:

I wish we could organize a road trip for the Ozone and roll in there 4K strong and just wreck their house.

Take a couple busses, take over the arena, group photo by the water phallus on the way out of town... sounds like a fun trip to me.

Jeff McKinney
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RE: Ohio @ EMU Picked for ESPNU

Posted: 1/7/2014 3:25:56 PM

As long as you obey the signs out on the freeway to not pick up hitchhikers, since they could be escapees from the local penitentiary.

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RE: Ohio @ EMU Picked for ESPNU

Posted: 1/7/2014 6:23:44 PM

anorris wrote:

shabamon wrote:

I can't wait to see fake Jeremy Guy's twitter that day. How is a game in front of 600 people going to showcase the conference favorably to the nation?

You think they'll draw 600 at 11am?

Rest of the games that day are pretty boring, though, that probably is the best game.

It's surpring any time TV picks something not involving Kent or Akron, let alone picking anything involving EMU ever.

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