Big Sky

[grizzpa]

I know this is a bit off topic but watching griz b-ball and the whole production makes the Big Sky look like a bush league.
Why Reno? Can't be much more than 100 people in the stands.
Pluto - announcers fro the deep South and can't even pronounce Oguine - the defensive player of the year.
Griz team and big sky deserve much better than this!

 

[go96griz]

I'm sure Boise will fix all these issues next year!

 

[Mousegriz]

I'm sure Boise will fix all these issues next year!

BSC Conference "rewards" two towns whose schools left the conference with its conference tourney. Pretty crazy.

 

[Potomac Griz]

I'm sure Boise will fix all these issues next year!

BSC Conference "rewards" two towns whose schools left the conference with its conference tourney. Pretty crazy.

After Boise doesn't work maybe they can try hosting it on CS-Northridge's campus next.

 

[Mousegriz]

I'm sure Boise will fix all these issues next year!

BSC Conference "rewards" two towns whose schools left the conference with its conference tourney. Pretty crazy.

After Boise doesn't work maybe they can try hosting it on CS-Northridge's campus next.

Ah...the old CSUN "Cricket Dome"....many quiet memories of that place.

 

[grizzpa]

Yep - great strategy. Put it in another disinterested community. How does the Big Sky afford to do this? Attendance is not paying any bills...

 

[Mavman]

I love how OP starts off with “off topic”
Hell there is nothing but posts bitching about tournament. Should have said “on topic”

 

[Griz90]

Put that tournament in Billings and approx 2,500 people would be there to watch the tournament.

 

[griznative24]

I just find it crazy that in order to watch a D-1 basketball tournament you have to stream it from a British sports network with announcers that can't pronounce anyone's name correctly, with the stream quality comparable to re-watching Weber State's victory over North Carolina from 1999 on Youtube, in a venue located in a state that does not have a single school from the conference it is supposed to be representing and that no fans actually want to go to, where literally every single team from said conference gets invited, and that is moving to Boise next year...
This conference goes out of its way to do everything A** Fu----ing Backwards

 

[cclarkblues]

Put that tournament in Billings and approx 2,500 people would be there to watch the tournament.

At least. Check the attendance from the Women's NAIA National Championship next week.

 

[grizzpa]

The Butte Civic Center would be a better site than Reno/Boise...

 

[grizzlyjournal]

Regarding that "southern" announcer for Big Sky Conference tourney games...

I only met Joe Cravens once (for an interview) and do not personally know him. Mr. Cravens is a native of Indiana, but has been in and about the Big Sky Conference for many years. I am not condoning his pronunciation problems regarding player names; in fact, I believe it is the responsibility of all journalists to spell, and pronounce names correctly. It would be a good thing if he interviewed the Montana players to get the proper pronunciation of their names.

But... Mr. Cravens otherwise knows the Big Sky very well, having been head coach of the Idaho Vandals (1993-96) and Weber State Wildcats (1999-2006) in separate tenures... and an interim coach at Utah for approx. a year. He obviously does his hoops research and has an extensive knowledge of the Big Sky. He also knows basketball and is able to explain its nuances in depth. I personally find him to be a fair and informed color announcer for the Big Sky telecasts. Though Cravens' humor is frankly corny at times... and sometimes borderline "iffy," I personally think that he is nonetheless a good choice for the broadcasts. His Indiana/Texas drawl notwithstanding (he played his college basketball in Texas) Joe Cravens has been around the Big Sky, and knows it well, for many more years than most of us.

 

[IdaGriz01]

... His Indiana/Texas drawl notwithstanding (he played his college basketball in Texas) Joe Cravens has been around the Big Sky, and knows it well, for many more years than most of us.

Amusing side-issue: It's amazing how fast some people can slide into a southern accent when they move down there from other parts of the country. I recall a fellow I first met at Argonne National Lab (near, Chicago, for those who aren't sure), who graduated from Michigan (or Michigan State, maybe). Some years later, I ran into him at a professional conference. By then he had been working for some aerospace company in Mobile, Alabama for four or five years. He had such a drawl, you'd swear he'd been raised on grits and chitlins.

 

[Proud Griz Man]

How many threads do we have about the Conference tournament in Reno, and how many more do we need to see ? :dead: :dead:

I know this is a bit off topic but watching griz b-ball and the whole production makes the Big Sky look like a bush league.
Why Reno? Can't be much more than 100 people in the stands.
Pluto - announcers fro the deep South and can't even pronounce Oguine - the defensive player of the year.
Griz team and big sky deserve much better than this!

 

[grizzpa]

Thanks for your insightful response. If I see something that I don't want to read, I don't open it - nevermind comment on it.
Try it. It could work for you too.

 

[Catsrgrood]

Put that tournament in Billings and approx 2,500 people would be there to watch the tournament.

At least. Check the attendance from the Women's NAIA National Championship next week.

Curious as to what other people think on this idea as well. Billings was in the top 3 when they decided to give it to Reno if I'm not mistaken.

Being from Billings, I for one would love it, I'd go to quite a few of the games.

I think the turnout would be pretty solid, plenty of people would go to the games from this area and it's closer to Bozeman, Missoula, Cheney, Pocatello and Greeley, so it'd be more likely to pull some fans from those areas than Reno has.
I don't remember the exact numbers, but I know the NAIA women's tournament last year brought in substantially more than it had in other places for years, that's why they're coming back for a second year. The initial award was only for one year.

I know there is more to it than that, but I'd hope that Billings would be in the running next time they make a decision.

 

[CatGrad-UMGradStu]

Beyond the whining about the decisions about the venues those great minds in charge of this conference made in choosing two communities who felt they were far superior to us and left (watch, the next site will be Spokane and you know what former conference member is there), I think it is interesting to look at the two schools going to the NCAA tournament.

How the hell did Northern Colorado get that woman to coach there is the mindset of most I've talked to about her. The other is pretty obvious. The UM coaching tree continues. What makes Missoula and the UM such a preferable place to be and why does Greeley attract such great athletes and coaches?

I know why anyone in their right mind would choose Cheney or Moscow if they love to hunt and fish, but, come on, the night life in Missoula is nonexistent since the Trading Post quit their Tuesday shows...is it the mild weather here?