Is it exposure if they don't go to the game?
Serious question. Who out there is buying tickets for Iowa State-South Carolina in Brooklyn?
NY media and access to Nets organization and arena vs the Corn Palace and Mitchell South Dakota Daily Republic
Is it exposure if they don't go to the game?
Serious question. Who out there is buying tickets for Iowa State-South Carolina in Brooklyn?
Two coach,
Outside of Florida and Kentucky who are you guaranteed to play in the non-conference that actually participated in the NCAA Tournament last year? I think the answer is zero based on the KU schedule release.
KU's schedule is better than ours but it is tremendously watered down from last year. Temple, Georgetown and UNLV are nice name opponents but they were all terrible last year. In fact South Carolina was much better than Temple.
How much time will the NY media spend on a game locals won't care about?
More than they would if we played in South Dakota?
Here's a flyer for last year's matchups at the Barclays Center:
http://barclayscenter.s3.amazonaws.com/doc/BC_Winter_Hoops_Festival_Group_Flyer_2013-updated.pdf
The dreamiest coach in America will be there?Legitimate question: Is it more? I'm curious what reason NY media would have to cover this game. It's the sort of thing we throw out as a positive. I'm wondering if there's actually any merit to it, because I don't see why NY media will spend a moment on ISU-South Carolina.
Well, KU's schedule was the toughest in the country. What do you want from them? To play all of their games on the road?
If ISU is supposed to be a Top 15 team then there aren't many teams in the country that ISU fans should consider a tough game. There are a lot of teams between "tough game" and South Carolina. That's all I am saying. They were really awful last year.
I'm sort of with twocoach here, wondering if Iowa State will play a good team in its non-conference schedule. Iowa should be a tough game, but it will be hard to get excited for the others. It's more fun to play a good team that you could beat but probably won't than to roll over a team you should beat. Honestly, I would rather see ISU play at Michigan State or at Florida, where they'd be a heavy underdog, than to watch them throttle UMKC. Am I alone?
Dang, that Gonzaga neutral site series would have been awesome. A lot better than South Carolina.
You're not and I agree. However those teams basically play scrubs and other blue bloods. Like Beilein said he wasn't going back to Iowa State any time soon.
How is that awesome to not even get a game in your STATE? 67 other teams made the tourney last year, I am sure ISU could get a home and home with one of them. It doesn't have to be Duke or Kentucky, just a team that makes the tourney most of the time. Michigan State and Ohio State will take on tough home/home series. The good teams in the Mountain West are taking home/home games now. KU has a series with both New Mexico and San Diego State going right now.
St Louis, Cincinnati, Temple, Georgetown and Marquette all offer the bonus of a game in a big city for recruiting bumps. Heck, give Dayton a call. They'd probably love to capitalize on their Elite Eight run with a good series. There are plenty of teams out there that would book a series.
Of course. And getting those teams on the schedule is extremely difficult.
If only we had a coach with your level of KU expertise.