Bowling Green's win is the MAC's gain

[psc2009]

Because its building a sweet new basketball arena, Bowling Green was awarded a host site for the 2012 Women's NCAA Tournament. It's pretty good news for the Falcons, but I'd say it's great news to the whole conference.

If BGSU can get a host site, who is to say that a school like Akron can't? The Zips have great basketball fans, a good arena and a large market. I'd love to see some tournament action at UA!

http://themacdaily.com/index.php?news&nid=548

[72 Roo]

I can't get excited by the Stroth Center. It will be nice, but it will seat a maximum of 5,000, doesn't matter if it is men or women. BG built it with the idea that they would rather play to a small packed house than have capacity to grow. That to me is a prescription for mediocrity. What a great recruiting line "Son, come to BG and play to a crowd a little bigger than your high school." Their aspirations are low and their hope for the future even lower.

We need to hold ourselves to a higher standard and find a way to achieve it. Not set the bar low and then proclaim success because we are at low standards.

I can't imagine one Zip fan who buys into this philosophy. It's harder to shoot for higher levels of achievement, but it is well worth it.

[RootforRoo44]

I can't get excited by the Stroth Center. It will be nice, but it will seat a maximum of 5,000, doesn't matter if it is men or women. BG built it with the idea that they would rather play to a small packed house than have capacity to grow. That to me is a prescription for mediocrity. What a great recruiting line "Son, come to BG and play to a crowd a little bigger than your high school." Their aspirations are low and their hope for the future even lower.

We need to hold ourselves to a higher standard and find a way to achieve it. Not set the bar low and then proclaim success because we are at low standards.

I can't imagine one Zip fan who buys into this philosophy. It's harder to shoot for higher levels of achievement, but it is well worth it.

I agree, i would hope any new arena we build is at least around 9-10k. Our program is destined for BIG THINGS.

[BirdZip]

I can't get excited by the Stroth Center. It will be nice, but it will seat a maximum of 5,000, doesn't matter if it is men or women. BG built it with the idea that they would rather play to a small packed house than have capacity to grow. That to me is a prescription for mediocrity. What a great recruiting line "Son, come to BG and play to a crowd a little bigger than your high school." Their aspirations are low and their hope for the future even lower.

We need to hold ourselves to a higher standard and find a way to achieve it. Not set the bar low and then proclaim success because we are at low standards.

I can't imagine one Zip fan who buys into this philosophy. It's harder to shoot for higher levels of achievement, but it is well worth it.

I agree, i would hope any new arena we build is at least around 9-10k. Our program is destined for BIG THINGS.

If you build it for 9-10,000, you might also want to include the curtains that they use at the Q for the MACC so that it doesn't look as empty as it really is.

[zippyman23]

I can't get excited by the Stroth Center. It will be nice, but it will seat a maximum of 5,000, doesn't matter if it is men or women. BG built it with the idea that they would rather play to a small packed house than have capacity to grow. That to me is a prescription for mediocrity. What a great recruiting line "Son, come to BG and play to a crowd a little bigger than your high school." Their aspirations are low and their hope for the future even lower.

We need to hold ourselves to a higher standard and find a way to achieve it. Not set the bar low and then proclaim success because we are at low standards.

I can't imagine one Zip fan who buys into this philosophy. It's harder to shoot for higher levels of achievement, but it is well worth it.

Kids pick schools based on the 4-5 years they will be there, and not on the capacity of a program to grow. It wouldn't have made sense for BG to build some 10,000 seat arena, just like it makes little sense for us to build one. Kids don't want to play in front of a bunch of empty seats either.