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Would also imply that he plans to test the waters as the Instagram post read as an advertisement of his skillset.

Surprised a bit about the travel budget just because most of the schools in the MAC are within bus range. One of the ones that wasn't is is leaving the conference so I suppose there is a reduction there. Maybe it more impacted the OOC travel.

I think a forum like this is great for brainstorming ideas, certainly for one's they might use. Having a smaller focus group is probably better for working out how best to implement them.

What's to say they aren't here lurking already?

I guess he's not lucky 🤷

I agree with pretty much everything you'd stated, but found this to be especially true. Scarcity drives demand. Particularly in this age of people wanting to show off on social media. People buy season tickets because they feel they have to and then keep them because it's a great experience watching games with an energized crowd. Perhaps the change needs to start with us on Zipsnation. Last year I bought 1 season ticket and split it in half as many games my fiancé work schedule didn't allow for her to attend and there were quite a few games that frankly I had little interest in committing time to attend in person. I will commit to two tickets next season and try to invite friends to games when fiancé can't attend. Perhaps that leads them to getting tickets in the future.

A lot to unpack here. I don't really care to get i to dissecting it now, but I might jump in and say things if others comment. I appreciate much of the honesty displayed by Goodrich and Groce here.

I am a bit surprised. Not because he would be commanding top dollar elsewhere. Just that one would think he would be behind both Ipsaro and Skaljac in pg duties. You would think he would want an opportunity to showcase his talents that way he could command top dollar next year. I wonder if thar means one of the PG ahead of him will be transferring.

They have craft beers at the arena. You'll just be paying more than $2 lol.

Love the idea of a punch card. You can even expand it a bit to include perks that cost the University little to no money, but might be viewed favorably to others who don't typically get those experiences. 2 - courtside seats for 1 game 2 - tickets to Tommy Evans Lounge 1 game

That's actually more useful thoughts than we typically get in this thread. I think concessions might be outsourced so I'm not sure how feasible it would be to implement this, but it's worth exploring. I would certainly enjoy loaded fries on Friday.

There are teams in the CAA that aren't any better than the directionals in the MAC. The CAA is also a 1 bid league. CoC is averaging more fans now than when their arena opened 15-20 years ago. Obviously they have done something to improve the experience. Edit: They've also been the only show in town for many years. That wouldn't explain why their attendance improved while ours regressed.

Not really meaning to pour any salt on wounds. Someone mentioned CoC attendance in a previous post so I looked. If you go back 15 years they were averaging 3,400 fans, similar to us during the later Dambrot years, and that was with them having a relatively new arena. Fast forward 15 years and they're now on a 39 game sell-out streak, meanwhile our attendance has cratered to ~2200. I do think it would be worthwhile for the Zips athletic department to maybe take a look at what factors maybe helped improve CoC numbers at a time when attendance is shrinking most places. Perhaps see if there is anything they've done to engage the community or improve the gameday experience that is transferable.

Gather in friends, we secured our first commit of the Ford era.

I'm not privy to any inside knowledge, but I saw this post by Sam Amico on 330togo facebook page. I'm thinking Utah was maybe Utah State as that Utah job was never open.

Groce left on good terms. I don't see him actively poaching any players. If anyone follows him it will likely be because they were going to enter the portal anyway and we couldn't afford their asking price.

😂 Edit: had to leave this because I'm coincidentally out of reactions.

Probably trying to create bidding war with CoC fanbase to see who can offer the most karma.

Wouldn't surprise me given how emotional people said he was at the selection show when talking about Bud.

Yes, it's really hard to know who would have stayed or left even if Groce stayed.

I'm going to go make a contribution to FTR to show my support for this move. I encourage others as well.

CoC job wasn't vacant that long. Groce I'm sure was in communication that he was exploring his options and they likely already had this contingency plan in place. It might have been in place even last year when reports were Groce had some interest in leaving.

Out of likes, but +1

The larger picture is there is no guarantee that a national coaching search leads to greater success. Especially if it leads to alienating your largest financial backers. The portal opens in a week. Unless you want a year 0 by running out players like Mark Kostelec a decision needs made soon.