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Post by sam.1014 on Mar 13, 2024 9:22:15 GMT -5
Your typical Samford student isn’t a sports fan either lol
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Post by sudog03 on Mar 13, 2024 9:26:00 GMT -5
Your typical Samford student isn’t a sports fan either lol Well said.
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Post by Smurf on Mar 13, 2024 9:49:35 GMT -5
Surely there is a watch party for students/fans being planned on campus for Sunday.
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Post by 77SU on Mar 13, 2024 10:03:56 GMT -5
Surely there is a watch party for students/fans being planned on campus for Sunday. Yes, that is in the works.
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Post by 77SU on Mar 13, 2024 10:19:38 GMT -5
Part of doing something you have not in a long time, you don’t know how to do it. Next year they can prepare way better if they make the championship. Make the students aware a couple weeks before about the buses. Just stuff you learn along the way. Granted the MBB team hasn't done this in 24 years, but I've been on that same floor with the WBB team three times in the last 13 years, with the most recent experience in 2020. Many folks in the athletics office have been there also, but no one seems to write down any lessons learned. Because it was the WBB team, there was very little fan involvement other than family members and some local area alums. At least this year the championship game was after classes resumed, where most years spring break started the same weekend as the tournament, so students had already made plans and deposits for the beaches. It will be a process, but continued winning will help.
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Post by Cujo on Mar 13, 2024 12:44:06 GMT -5
In 99 and 00, there were watch parties for the selection show and Seibert was packed.
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Post by Jiggs on Mar 13, 2024 16:44:13 GMT -5
Another area where Samford is sorely lacking is a presence by the Alumni office to plan and host some type of function associated with the games at the tournament. Most of the schools have a designated facility where they gather before and/or after games, whether it's a local watering hole or a banquet room at the team hotel. Unless I missed someone, there were only two Samford administrators at the game, that work outside of the department of athletics. That would be the President and the VP for Student Affairs. There were multiple advancement officers on hand to press the flesh of donors, but the lack of fan appreciation was especially evident last night when ETSU had alternated placing blue and yellow t-shirts on every seat in their fan area behind the bench. Then they gave all their fans pins and shakers. Someone did come through the Samford area with a few red shakers, but that was it. The announcement for the bus ride said the game was a red out, but that was up to individuals to provide their own red shirt, that is, if they even knew there was an effort to have a red out. As far as the program has come and trying to be one of the big boys, it still has not arrived. At least the band, dance team, and cheerleaders were there for all of the women's and men's games, which is better than a few years ago. A few of us gathered at a watering hole where ETSU had planned a pregame gathering. Just to heckle them, of course.
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