Morning After Pill: Cajuns and Golden Eagles

[Hatch]

MAT, just curious if you were able to make the game in person and if so your thoughts on Reed-Green in regards to your renovate Blackham campaign.

[Million$Mullet]

MAT, just curious if you were able to make the game in person and if so your thoughts on Reed-Green in regards to your renovate Blackham campaign.

Reed Green is a small dump. Concourses are small. Concessions suck and bathrooms are few and far between. Wooden bleachers for the majority of the arena. But guess what? None of that mattered cause it’s an electric atmosphere and the people are there for the game. It was loud in spurts but that last dunk blew the roof off of the place. According to their fans I spoke to last night they are renovating it soon. They will have to build it out for sure. Bottom line, the place can be a dump with bad accessories but none of that matters cause it’s smaller and intimate and it blows the atmosphere of the Cajundome away.

[CajunVic]

. . . and they had 8,000 rowdy fans there with a substantial student component . . . that crowd would rock in the CD also . . .

[R1Letterman]

. . . and they had 8,000 rowdy fans there with a substantial student component . . . that crowd would rock in the CD also . . .

they probably already put a banner up and have a full bus for next game

[ManAboutTown]

MAT, just curious if you were able to make the game in person and if so your thoughts on Reed-Green in regards to your renovate Blackham campaign.

Last night was a 2 hour commercial displaying why we should renovate Blackham. It's exactly what I've always said on the topic. And M$M hammered home the point.

#RenovateBlackham

[CajunNation]

So your observations are wrong. We’re second in 3 point percentage made and middle of the pack in attempts. Additionally our biggest weakness is 3 point defense where we’re dead last.

Last night we were bad at both made and defended.

There I go again, making assumptions. Thanks for checking me.

[CajunEXPRESS]

Last night was a 2 hour commercial displaying why we should renovate Blackham. It's exactly what I've always said on the topic. And M$M hammered home the point.

#RenovateBlackham

Don’t renovate Blackham. Tare it down and replace it if y’all hate the current facility. I’m not in favor of a rebirth. I’ve renovated enough properties to know we can do much better in every aspect with modern engineering, materials, and technology.

Again I love the Cajun Dome, but that’s a different argument for sure.

[CajunNation]

Don’t renovate Blackham. Tare it down and replace it if y’all hate the current facility. I’m not in favor of a rebirth. I’ve renovated enough properties to know we can do much better in every aspect with modern engineering, materials, and technology.

Again I love the Cajun Dome, but that’s a different argument for sure.

We've solved this in a previous thread.

Best option for us right now is a new arena with a 10 year window.

[ManAboutTown]

Don’t renovate Blackham. Tare it down and replace it if y’all hate the current facility. I’m not in favor of a rebirth. I’ve renovated enough properties to know we can do much better in every aspect with modern engineering, materials, and technology.

Again I love the Cajun Dome, but that’s a different argument for sure.

I've spent half my life renovating. It's not feasible to spend money on a product that the fanbase doesn't utilize. Spend enough to get the thing inhabitable, play your games for 6-8 years, get the fanbase back with a winning coach, hang some banners, and then fundraise the money for a new basketball only arena.

I know some of yall want to be more comfortable in your seats than you want to win basketball games, but give me what Hattiesburg had all day long over the Cajun Dome. Even with 5351 in attendance, that dump in Hattiesburg was incredible. I'd rather ____ty accommodations and hanging banners than being comfortable and losing.

[CajunVic]

. . . so the reason we had only about 7500 in the seats for a FB game is CF . . . similar crappy accommodations didn’t seem to bother SM last night . . . probably need to recalculate . . .

[Big Buds]

It’s funny, I’m now considering Southern Miss our primary rival. That didn’t take long. It was LaTech less than 6 months ago.

[moorecajun]

Agree on all points except Fulks. You wanna talk about someone who cares? Dude plays his ass off all game and gets absolutely no rest. He HAS to be on the floor for us to succeed. I think he played well considering the circumstances. When Greg doesn’t take over the second half like he’s been doing and Garnett only gets 3 shots you get what you saw last night. Too many missed shots point blank at the rim. I don’t think we are a soft team but USM bullied us when it mattered.

As for the environment, it sure reminded me of the old lakefront days against UNO and Tim Floyd. 8k in a barn is a treat to witness(blackham anyone?). Being involved all game is a treat to witness. A student section that takes over the area a is a treat to witness. They fed off of that crowd. I’ve said this too many times over but home court advantage is real. Fan interaction with the players is real.

With that being said, we led the majority of the game and let that one slip away. I believe it was about the ten minute mark where things went south. We played about as bad as we could and still had our chances. I think USM put EVERYTHING into this game. From the crowd to the players. They blew their wad. We meet them in Pensacola we win. Period.

I agree that they put everything into this game and may very well overlook ulm Saturday. At least I am hoping so!