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popsicle:
IAA you talk about location.......UDM vs. Youngstown.....and then reference being invited to tournaments? Sounds like you are talking about FOLLOWING...as in fans! UDM has a bigger following than Youngstown? Location of a school is irrelevant on road trip tourneys.

Lets_Talk:
How can YSU sell over 200,000 tickets in a football season? If YSU plays 7 games at home, and averages 15,000 per game, that is 105,000 tickets sold. Schools in FCS do NOT get to keep the money from tickets sold for playoff games. And, at this point, figuring in playoff games is irrelevant, given that YSU has made the playoffs 1 time since Tressel left at the end of 2000.

I checked the media guide, and here are the 5 seasons in which YSU sold the most tickets. They are all seasons in which YSU made the playoffs, and the total was not even close to 200,000

1994 - 161,810 for 10 games... 3 of those games were playoff games,
1999 - 150,887 for 9 games.. 2 of the 9 were playoff games
2006 - 121,209 for 8 games, including 2 playoff games
1997 - 117,766 for 8 games, including 1 playoff game

The most fans YSU has ever averaged per game was 18,109 in 2000... YSU played 6 home games, for a total attendance of 108,656. In 2002, YSU averaged 17,174 for 6 games. A total of 103,046. These are the ONLY 2 seasons YSU has averaged 17,000 or more fans per game.

As for Detroit and the OOC basketball schedule, here is their schedule for the upcoming season.

Legends Classic:
@ Oregon
@ Michigan
SOUTH ALABAMA (HOME)
Md Eastern Shore (at Toledo)
Toledo or Bucknell (at Toledo)

HOME:
Rochester (non D1)
Bowling Green
South Florida
Wichita State
Oral Roberts

AWAY:
Central Florida
Rhode Island
Arizona State

* From reading the Valpo board, there is a chance Detroit might play Belmont. Above schedule allows for 2 more OOC games. Even if both of those are Non D1 opponents, that is a damn good OOC schedule. Add Belmont, and it is even better
http://www.detroittitans.com/schedule.aspx?path=mbball

As for Detroit being a traditionally better program, you are really showing your age. Amd, Oakland has not been D1 for all that long. I would say Oakland also has a solid tradition in basketball, having made the NCAA D2 Tournament in 94,95,96,97 and D1 Tournament in 2005, 2010 and 2011. They also played in CIT in 2009, 2012 and 2013.

Oakland has been in D1 since 1997. They have played in the post-season 6 times, including 3 trips to NCAA Tournament 98, 99 and 2012. That is the SAME number of times in NCAA Tournament as Detroit over that time period. Detroit was also in NIT in 01, 02 and 2013. The trip to NCAA Tournament in 98 was their first since 1979. Trip to NIT in 01 was first since 1978. Glory years for UD in basketball were definitely the 60's and 70's, with small periods of success from 98-2014, with some really, really bad seasons strung together in between the 2-3 year bursts of success... 4 straight losing seasons from 80-81 to 83-84, including 2 with less than 10 wins. UD went 16-12 in the 1984-85 season, then reeled off 7 losing seasons in a row. This included 7 wins in 3 straight seasons (86-87 thru 88-89). And, lets not forget the span from 06-07 to 08-09, when UD was one of the worst teams in the HL.

paladin:
Thank you, Lets_Talk.

That is EXACTLY why the cheerleaders here look so foolish. Exaggerate, embellish or simply lie. The  marrow of the situation is always to obscure reality.

Or "you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear".

IAA Fan:
YSU has standing capacity of almost 23k x 7 home games = 161k
4 home play-off games: 23k x4 = 92k

This is a total of 253k

YSU has a seated capacity of 21k x7 home games = 147k
4 home play-off games: 21kx4 = 84k

This is a total of 231k

Even if we did not have a 7-game home season (off years or we receive a play-off bye) we would be in excess of 200k.


All fans cheer. Maybe, the only one being foolish Paladin might be those with the attitude that dooms a team. My post contains no lie, no embellishment, or exaggeration. I expect to have all post-season games at home. 12-game seasons occur once ever 3.5 years. Perhaps if you stopped worrying about the pig's gizzards ...you would see that pork loin tastes great.

Furthermore, the fact that a MBB team averages about 5k per game. 200k/5k = 40. So it would take 40 games to see that same amount of tickets, concessions, etc. I am not the one ignoring the obvious and I did not need my YSU education to do the math.

Also Lets_talk ...I am not the one assuming 15k is normal attendance for a YSU football game.

popsicle:
WOW!? 1AA...did you write the prospectus for the guy who bought the Jacksonville Jaguars franchise? Potential and reality are not always the same......more often not! Root for all you want...that's why there are still Cub fans.

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