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gocubs2118

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It's that time again where I wonder why the heck don't we have a Midnight Madness, especially this year when when we can't host recruits for officials visits for another 5 weeks. It would be nice to have another weekend to have official visits.

With interest in basketball pretty damn high right now and even higher with the football team doing so poorly, you'd think they could muster up enough interest to put one of these things on.
 
gocubs2118 said:
It's that time again where I wonder why the heck don't we have a Midnight Madness, especially this year when when we can't host recruits for officials visits for another 5 weeks. It would be nice to have another weekend to have official visits.

With interest in basketball pretty damn high right now and even higher with the football team doing so poorly, you'd think they could muster up enough interest to put one of these things on.
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We already have officials for our two remaining recruits, but I would love Midnight Madness.
 
NATEizKING said:
We already have officials for our two remaining recruits, but I would love Midnight Madness.
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We do but but instead of waiting the 5 weeks to host Cunningham, you could host him in two weeks or whenever it would be. It seems like Vaughn's visit was planned out like that, so I'm not really worried about him.
 
gocubs2118 said:
We do but but instead of waiting the 5 weeks to host Cunningham, you could host him in two weeks or whenever it would be. It seems like Vaughn's visit was planned out like that, so I'm not really worried about him.
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I'd rather have him experience a game day atmosphere, preferably basketball though.
 
I think Fred has talked about it before, hasn't he? Something about how Midnight Madness takes time away from practice? Can't remember the exact reasoning.
 
ISUCubswin said:
I think Fred has talked about it before, hasn't he? Something about how Midnight Madness takes time away from practice? Can't remember the exact reasoning.
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I remember hearing something like that but starting this year, practice starts an extra two weeks early. I just don't see the downside in having a practice/slam dunk/3 point contest/whatever in front of the fans. I bet there would be more people at that than a game against Alabama State during winter break.
 
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The extra practice theory was kicked out the window and nearly into orbit a couple years ago when ISU got 10 extra practices before its Euro trip.
 
I for one don't care that we don't have one. It's always seemed kind of stupid to me but maybe that's because I remember how boring our intrasquad scrimmages are each year at our kick-off event. It would end up being the students and maybe another 1000 fans at the thing if you did it at midnight. Not saying that's bad, just saying you wouldn't get many of the families or old folks.
 
All naysayers for having Midnight Madness: Don't go if Iowa State ever has one and you don't like the idea. In a football-centric society, college basketball needs to start off with a boom, rather than waiting for an exhibition game against Augustana. Its Hilton Coliseum, our prized and historic basketball venue. I love any chance I get to be in that building. Any true Iowa State fan should as well. Having a hybrid event of fanfest, basketball practice, unveiling tournament banners, meeting newcomers, and having a chance for player interaction/autographs sounds like exactly what the doctor ordered for this program.
 
wonkadog said:
I for one don't care that we don't have one. It's always seemed kind of stupid to me but maybe that's because I remember how boring our intrasquad scrimmages are each year at our kick-off event. It would end up being the students and maybe another 1000 fans at the thing if you did it at midnight. Not saying that's bad, just saying you wouldn't get many of the families or old folks.
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I think you're underestimating the crowd a bit. Regardless, even students and a few thousand fans would be a lot more into it than many of our non-con games. And we could have 8pm madness to cater to our elderly fans needs. Semi-:jimlad:
 
Haverhill said:
I love any chance I get to be in that building. Any true Iowa State fan should as well. Having a hybrid event of fanfest, basketball practice, unveiling tournament banners, meeting newcomers, and having a chance for player interaction/autographs sounds like exactly what the doctor ordered for this program.
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The bolded things happened in August. In Hilton.
 
theshadow said:
The bolded things happened in August. In Hilton.
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...and then basketball is forgotten until A) first exhibition game; or B) the football team blows. I don't think we should bank on the football team sucking every year and basketball being on our minds so early.
 
CynadoAlley said:
I think you're underestimating the crowd a bit. Regardless, even students and a few thousand fans would be a lot more into it than many of our non-con games. And we could have 8pm madness to cater to our elderly fans needs. Semi-:jimlad:
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I'm super down with 8pm Madness!
 
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