The Purple Kitty fans are complaining about the officiating. I honestly did see some calls that could have went the other way, but for both teams. We out played them. Sorry they got their confident a$$es handed to them. UNI fans, the Saluki dog is returning back to the top of the league. You've been warned. BMull is making Saluki Basketball GREAT again!
I’m pretty impartial when it comes to the refs. I never like to use them as an excuse when we lose and I’ll admit when we got a huge advantage. Didn’t notice anything last night with the refs. Maybe the Salukis got a few calls but Trent Brown was also called for a foul when he took an elbow to the chin.
The refs didn't dig them a 16-point hole. UNI did that all on their own.
If they got homered, then I'm sure we will get the return treatment in Frost Bite Falls.
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Feel better! You were counted in that 4,300 anyway since you had tickets. 😉
A lot of disparaging comments made about our team by their fans both prior and after the game. I never saw the sense in that particularly after you have had your butts handed to you. Many of their fans were upset about the flagrant foul. I in person saw a frustrated AJ Green intentionally elbow Brown in the face. The slow mo made it even more obvious. One of their fans claimed Brown threw his face into the elbow, lol. Anyway, sour grapes and all, we have 4 Valley home wins in a row and have a chance Saturday to get that elusive road win against the Turds. Go Dawgs
I never comment on refs but they started it
if the correct call is made and McGill shoots instead of Jones the game is probably over
just saying
A lot of disparaging comments made about our team by their fans both prior and after the game. I never saw the sense in that particularly after you have had your butts handed to you. Many of their fans were upset about the flagrant foul. I in person saw a frustrated AJ Green intentionally elbow Brown in the face. The slow mo made it even more obvious. One of their fans claimed Brown threw his face into the elbow, lol. Anyway, sour grapes and all, we have 4 Valley home wins in a row and have a chance Saturday to get that elusive road win against the Turds. Go Dawgs
I didn't see "[a] lot of disparaging comments" about us at all over there. There were lots of people predicting a win and frustrated at the loss to a team picked to finish dead last, but our having been picked to finish last is a fact, not a disparaging comment.
Even (most of) the people complaining about the refs were willing to give us credit for good D and playing hard and taking it to them on offense, and there were several comments that were highly complimentary of Mullins & Co.
The amount of complaining about bad calls was pretty much exactly what you'd see here after a close, frustrating loss. 😉
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4,300 for a crowd is not a big crowd in my mind. Late start and cold weather probably kept many away, but this team deserves to be supported and I hope the attendance grows as the season winds down.
Attendance has been pretty disappointing this year. Even in the dog days of Lowery and Hinson, they’d be able to fill the bleachers on the top of each side. It makes sense though given they haven’t made even an NIT since Mullins was playing and Hinson turned a lot of people off. I do think winning will bring people back, a game like last night is huge for people buy in again and want to be back at the Arena.
Even though they number was low, thought every bit of those 4,300 showed up.
When I went to school, the team was terrible and you know what? I went to 95% of the games. I traveled to KY, TN to see games. I understand the locals perhaps not attending bc of the poor records, but the students should be going. They are the ones that make the most noise. Look at Duke, or Grand Canyon, do you think it's the adults jumping up and down and going nuts?
But maybe, today, people need success, but no worries because that is coming !!! If you build it, they WILL COME
4,300 for a crowd is not a big crowd in my mind. Late start and cold weather probably kept many away, but this team deserves to be supported and I hope the attendance grows as the season winds down.
Attendance has been pretty disappointing this year. Even in the dog days of Lowery and Hinson, they’d be able to fill the bleachers on the top of each side. It makes sense though given they haven’t made even an NIT since Mullins was playing and Hinson turned a lot of people off. I do think winning will bring people back, a game like last night is huge for people buy in again and want to be back at the Arena.
Even though they number was low, thought every bit of those 4,300 showed up.
When I went to school, the team was terrible and you know what? I went to 95% of the games. I traveled to KY, TN to see games. I understand the locals perhaps not attending bc of the poor records, but the students should be going. They are the ones that make the most noise. Look at Duke, or Grand Canyon, do you think it's the adults jumping up and down and going nuts?
But maybe, today, people need success, but no worries because that is coming !!! If you build it, they WILL COME
I wasn't there but on TV, it looked like we had the best student turnout of the season.
4,300 for a crowd is not a big crowd in my mind. Late start and cold weather probably kept many away, but this team deserves to be supported and I hope the attendance grows as the season winds down.
Attendance has been pretty disappointing this year. Even in the dog days of Lowery and Hinson, they’d be able to fill the bleachers on the top of each side. It makes sense though given they haven’t made even an NIT since Mullins was playing and Hinson turned a lot of people off. I do think winning will bring people back, a game like last night is huge for people buy in again and want to be back at the Arena.
Even though they number was low, thought every bit of those 4,300 showed up.
When I went to school, the team was terrible and you know what? I went to 95% of the games. I traveled to KY, TN to see games. I understand the locals perhaps not attending bc of the poor records, but the students should be going. They are the ones that make the most noise. Look at Duke, or Grand Canyon, do you think it's the adults jumping up and down and going nuts?
But maybe, today, people need success, but no worries because that is coming !!! If you build it, they WILL COME
I wasn't there but on TV, it looked like we had the best student turnout of the season.
It's a different world. It takes a lot to get "kids these days" out. Not judging, just a fact.
And in the Gottfried/Van Winkle/early Herrin days--even before online gaming and social media--student interest in general was tepid.
Winning--or even fun, inspired losses--will do a lot to bring students back, but I'm going to guess we'll never see the return of the Dawg Pound of the '00s. Life ain't like that anymore. ☹️
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i've watched that final play of the game a few times now as well as reading that green wasn't the designed shooter. domask's role in defending that play has been overlooked in my opinion. when green turned baseline it looked like he might have had half a step on brown on his way to the basket. domask stepped out of the paint toward green and trent to force green to decide to shoot immediately or dribble in to a double team against the end line. it paused him long enough for trent to get back in front of him and domask sagged back in to the paint. trent did a great job against him but domask helped cut off a much closer shot.
great job guys. so proud. same record at 10-10 as last year's veteran club. let go squish a redturd saturday. anyone making the drive up?
Craving a McBride Special!
I agree that it's a generational issue in regards to young people attending sporting events in person.
I was listening to a Reis radio rewind a couple months ago. It was SIU vs NIU from the late 80's/early 90's- two non-conference mid-majors....and it sounded like it was the damn Super Bowl! Every basket or blocking call was a roaring ovation.
The Pinckneyville Panthers - a program of rich tradition and basic punch-ins for the state tournament yearly - no longer fill the gym to the brim. It's close, but nothing like yesteryear, when a game against a 30 point underdog would be standing room only.
I recall that Alabama - the mecca of college football - set up an app this year for students to check in at football games, racking up points to put toward discounted tickets if they stayed the games entirety, because, apparently, a noticeable amount of students were leaving at halftime.
There are way to many outlets of "entertainment" today. Back in the day (oh jeez, I'm sounding like one of those guys and I haven't hit 30 yet lol), getting out of the house and cheering at the ballgame with a couple of pals *was* the entertainment!
Nonetheless, the Arena (still hard to not use that term) will fill again. The fans were LOUD last night!
Trent Brown - sweet quick release, stays connected all the way through. It event looks damn good when he lands lol. All the 8-12 year old kids at the Saluki summer camps should be learning to shoot from Trent Brown.
Lance Jones - what a good player he'll be. So quick. I bet there's not a bigger fan of his than Aaron Cook, which is awesome.
Let's **** Go!
i've watched that final play of the game a few times now as well as reading that green wasn't the designed shooter. domask's role in defending that play has been overlooked in my opinion. when green turned baseline it looked like he might have had half a step on brown on his way to the basket. domask stepped out of the paint toward green and trent to force green to decide to shoot immediately or dribble in to a double team against the end line. it paused him long enough for trent to get back in front of him and domask sagged back in to the paint. trent did a great job against him but domask helped cut off a much closer shot.
great job guys. so proud. same record at 10-10 as last year's veteran club. let go squish a redturd saturday. anyone making the drive up?
Nothing against last year's guys, but it's pretty telling when Mullins' first team (pieced together in a matter of months) is easily as good as Barry's "best team ever" on paper. What a difference a coach makes.
While it will certainly take time, I honestly believe that the football and basketball programs are going to have a LOT of success in the next decade and that, like it or not, is going to draw students to come to SIU. And those students will be invested. So, again, while it will take time, I think there is at least a chance where you see fanatics back at the "Arena".
Wow - that's a homer article. AJ Green got poked in the eye and that's why he didn't score???
Nothing to do with the D we played against him! I thought a couple of the shots he made in the 2nd half were pure luck (Berhow too.) When someone is all over you and you make it from 28ft, you've got to be lucky! Green is shooting 38% from three this year - good but not great. Jacobsen's full of it!
My son in Chicago watched the replay of the game because it was blacked out up there. He said there was a taller UNI player positioned right underneath the other side of the basket on Green's last shot and he would have laid it right back in except that McGill somehow leaped over him and deflected the ball from that guys hands and then recovered it. Game saving play too.
