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Big Sage said:
Terrible game. Why did we schedule them
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Local, on the cheap, easy to schedule, community relations. But kind of like a charity/exhibition game, would have made more sense as a fundraiser, maybe for a common community cause., etc. From another source, looks like the SKC guys and their supporters enjoyed the opportunity to play and for the exposure.
 
I started watching that game and turned it off about 5 minutes in. Everybody has one or two of these on their schedule. It's a chance for those at the end of the bench to see a little floor time and for the team to work on execution with little chance of a harmful outcome. It just hurts my eyes to watch bad basketball. There is also the chance of our players getting lazy on D, thinking that it should always be that easy. I'd rather see more D11s in the mix.
 
I was at the game last night and only stayed for the 1st half. Judging by the small crowd, it felt a little more like an SKC home game because their supporters had louder cheers whenever they scored than the Griz supporters. So kudos to SKC's supporters for sticking out the delay better than the Griz fans did. I can imagine it had to be a thrill for those SKC players to get to play a game in a D1 building.
 
Lady Griz used to schedule a game to be a school day bringing in a large contingent of grade schools students in the area to watch the game. This game would have been a great opportunity to do it for the men's side. I did not go see this game and likely won't go to the next one either because I hate watching games against non-division 1 teams. I predicted before this game started that it would be 100 - 40 and I wasn't too far off.
 
MTbest said:
Local, on the cheap, easy to schedule, community relations. But kind of like a charity/exhibition game, would have made more sense as a fundraiser, maybe for a common community cause., etc. From another source, looks like the SKC guys and their supporters enjoyed the opportunity to play and for the exposure.
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Wasn't this the replacement game when Northern Iowa bought their way out of the game with short notice?
 
MTbest said:
Local, on the cheap, easy to schedule, community relations. But kind of like a charity/exhibition game, would have made more sense as a fundraiser, maybe for a common community cause., etc. From another source, looks like the SKC guys and their supporters enjoyed the opportunity to play and for the exposure.
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I don’t know if the American or Montana Indian leagues ever have all star teams, but it would be awesome to watch that talent on the floor of the Harry Adam’s fieldhouse with the Griz, statewide crowd, and really make an event of it in their powder blue uniforms. Have a uniform auction event after the game benefitting both the U and Indian leagues in the process..
Remember Mike Chavez? He belonged!

Go Griz!
 
Kabooom said:
I don’t know if the American or Montana Indian leagues ever have all star teams, but it would be awesome to watch that talent on the floor of the Harry Adam’s fieldhouse with the Griz, statewide crowd, and really make an event of it in their powder blue uniforms. Have a uniform auction event after the game benefitting both the U and Indian leagues in the process..
Remember Mike Chavez? He belonged!

Go Griz!
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Great idea! Harkens from times long ago, when the Griz had a JV/Frosh team that would play "town all-stars", comprised of locals and surrounding area who were former Griz and other collegiate players, from schools far and near and/or talented net swishing athletes. We could have our non-starting/bench players get out there!
 
Yeah the Cubs (Griz JV) used to play city league teams like Stockman’s prior to the Griz game and once in awhile a player on the Cubs would end up having a role on the Griz team in later years - not often though and I can’t think of an example. Teams like Stocks would have recently graduated Griz players too, which made the games interesting.

Those were the days!!
 
CopperGold14 said:
Yeah the Cubs (Griz JV) used to play city league teams like Stockman’s prior to the Griz game and once in awhile a player on the Cubs would end up having a role on the Griz team in later years - not often though and I can’t think of an example. Teams like Stocks would have recently graduated Griz players too, which made the games interesting.

Those were the days!!
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Yeah. Back in the day, Weber had a Frosh/JV team as well. I kept the score book for them. They used to play all of the local JC teams and the JV teams from Utah, USU, and BYU. The teams would consist mostly of freshmen and walk-ons. Every once in a while a walk-on would make it to the varsity team. That ended in the late 70s. Too bad.
 
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