Rebounders Club Tidbit

[ZoomZoom]

Note we are paying well over 120 grand in total to get Southern and Prairie View to come home here this season.

So, 60k for a SWAC team. With what the P5 programs get from football, 150k may not get their attention. Top flight programs can pay that same 60k, sell 7,500 to 10k tickets and make that 150k at home.

Annnnnddddd, Alabama got drummed by Northeastern on the road today. Don’t think for one second their SEC brethren won’t have a long talk in the offseason with Alabama about scheduling “those programs”’

[Rainman66]

Not sure what my decision will be here. I can tell you that additional Rebounders meetings are scheduled for the following dates;

Tuesday Dec. 4
Wed. Dec. 19
Tuesday January 8
Tuesday Jan. 22
Tuesday Feb. 5
Tuesday Feb. 19

People interested can copy these dates and send me private messages the day after if they want info available to be shared. Also, even though the season has started you can still sign up to be a Rebounders member. If interested, send me a private message.

Mike, I live out of town, has anyone considered doing a web conference for these events? I would pay/signup in a heartbeat.

[Hatch]

Mike, I live out of town, has anyone considered doing a web conference for these events? I would pay/signup in a heartbeat.

Nice idea, I would be all in on that as well.

[CajunJeaux]

Mike...make sure you get Expresses credit card info...sounds like he’s willing to pony up towards to kitty after complaining for so long

[CajunEXPRESS]

If’n Big Fish ever calls me to get into a much better out of Conference schedule I’ll deliver him a nice starter. I’m not saving any money for that day. He’s small time exclusive.

[zephyr]

As an absentee basketball fan, I appreciate Mike's posts about the program. If some of you don't want to read them, you should just scroll by. I guess some of you only want to read negative posts about everything or if it doesn't support your agenda, it should not be allowed. That is BS.

Again, some just don't read what is posted and jump to conclusions. If you read any of my posts in basketball season, they are not negative. I typically like Mike's posts about insight into the program and tidbits about the players. However, recently, when discussion has gone the way of Bob Marlin's contract we are told essentially to stop _____ing because we can't do anything about it. Just as his comments are welcomed in regards to the program others are allowed to give opinion, especially when its done in a respectful manner. It just comes across as dismissive.

[zephyr]

Please don't let one or two dissuade you. Your thoughts are highly valued by the vast majority, including me.

Again, nobody EVER said that his posts were not valued. READ.

[Cajunsmike]

Mike, I live out of town, has anyone considered doing a web conference for these events? I would pay/signup in a heartbeat.

Not sure of the feasibility of that but I can ask. You would have to be a dues paying member of course to participate.

[Cajunsmike]

Again, some just don't read what is posted and jump to conclusions. If you read any of my posts in basketball season, they are not negative. I typically like Mike's posts about insight into the program and tidbits about the players. However, recently, when discussion has gone the way of Bob Marlin's contract we are told essentially to stop _____ing because we can't do anything about it. Just as his comments are welcomed in regards to the program others are allowed to give opinion, especially when its done in a respectful manner. It just comes across as dismissive.

I likely did repeat myself a little too often when suggesting that complaining about the coach's extension served no purpose. No offense taken.

[Cajunsmike]

It's amazing to me that it cost 120 grand for Southern and Prairie View. I wonder what it would cost for a team like Utah or Washington?

Teams like Utah or Washington won't come here for any price. Reason is they are in the PAC 12 which is a Big Six (P5 plus Big East) league. Those schools make so much from their TV contracts they rarely (was going to say never but there may be exceptions) get paid to travel anywhere as they have no need to do so. When they do travel to a mid major it is due to a home and home usually with some extenuating circumstance. That is why the suggestion of Cajun Express to pay someone 150 grand to come here is interesting but has limitations. Were you to pay that much (which may be a record paid to anyone for basketball), the best school you would get would be a program of the nature of Western Kentucky. Keep in mind to break even with a 150 grand payment, you would have to draw 15000 at a ticket price of 10 dollars each. That is why if you were to pursue such a policy you would have to raise the guarantee fee from private donations for it to make economic sense.