AP: University of Louisville facing accreditation issues

[freescooter]

A couple of comments:
1. Louisville was accredited? Seriously?
2. Will this in any way result in a cut to the budget for the hookers?
3. Who is getting whacked by the NCAA, Eastern Kentucky or Western Kentucky?
4. Who would have imagined that the ACC would haveca higher percentage of members with scandals than the SEC? Just an amazing performance.

 

[Husky25]

Which has nothing to do with my post that you quoted that was about actual attendance.

Thanks for being so clear in a point that has nothing to do with my post.

Actual attendance when? On Thursday? Unless you've gunned your DeLorean up to 88, Thursday hasn't happened yet. You predicted actual attendance to be around 18,000. The School says it expects to eclipse 30K. The eye test will be revealing.

Matt is Q&A-ing himself?

C'mon man.

Suppose it's possible, but doesn't appear so.

 

[whaler11]

Actual attendance when? On Thursday? Unless you've gunned your DeLorean up to 88, Thursday hasn't happened yet. You predicted actual attendance to be around 18,000. The School says it expects to eclipse 30K. The eye test will be revealing.


Doesn't appear so.

There has not been a UConn football game at Rentchler that had 30k people in the stadium since Michigan.

Actual attendance has nothing to do with what they publish and that they have distributed 30k tickets by giving away 10k means nothing until people actually show up.

Something is special about Maine that didn't impact UMass, Towson or Villanova?

Season tickets are probably at an alltime low (note they don't publish a number) yet there is going to be 30k at the game Thursday when they haven't gotten that many in years - for much better games that weren't held on a holiday weekend and most schools are starting in the area.

There is actually data on gate scanned tickets. Google can be your friend.

 

[MattMang23]

Something is special about Maine that didn't impact UMass, Towson or Villanova?

No. Something is special about UConn. We are projected to win 15 games.

 

[whaler11]

Actual attendance when? On Thursday? Unless you've gunned your DeLorean up to 88, Thursday hasn't happened yet. You predicted actual attendance to be around 18,000. The School says it expects to eclipse 30K. The eye test will be revealing.


Suppose it's possible, but doesn't appear so.

Read this and please stop about 30k in the building on Thursday. In 2009 they broke 30k once.


According to records at the state Office of Policy and Management, the university has never sold 40,000 tickets to a game. Of those 25 announced sellouts, the number of tickets sold has instead ranged from 32,800 to 35,362.

And the actual attendance, or the number of people who show up, has been much lower: During the 2005 football season, at which all six home games were announced as 40,000-seat sellouts, the highest turnstile/luxury count hit 32,021 and none of the other five games exceeded 30,000 people in the stands.

 

[whaler11]

No. Something is special about UConn. We are projected to win 15 games.

Same people projected 15 last season too

 

[NYUConn]

Burn this thread with fire.

 

[CL82]

Read this and please stop about 30k in the building on Thursday.

It's a prediction, what do you care? You think differently, that's fine. We'll see Thursday night.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

Read this and please stop about 30k in the building on Thursday. In 2009 they broke 30k once.


According to records at the state Office of Policy and Management, the university has never sold 40,000 tickets to a game. Of those 25 announced sellouts, the number of tickets sold has instead ranged from 32,800 to 35,362.

And the actual attendance, or the number of people who show up, has been much lower: During the 2005 football season, at which all six home games were announced as 40,000-seat sellouts, the highest turnstile/luxury count hit 32,021 and none of the other five games exceeded 30,000 people in the stands.

There are turnstiles at the Rent?

 

[whaler11]

It's a prediction, what do you care? You think differently, that's fine. We'll see Thursday night.

I don't actually care - someone felt the need to start quoting my posts with nonsense so I pointed out it's nonsense.

Why don't you go police his posts that had nothing to do with the ones he quoted.

 

[whaler11]

There are turnstiles at the Rent?

Yes the data the state gets on scanned tickets isn't valid because it says turnstile count in the newspaper article.

 

[CallMeBruce]

A couple of comments:
1. Louisville was accredited? Seriously?
2. Will this in any way result in a cut to the budget for the hookers?
3. Who is getting whacked by the NCAA, Eastern Kentucky or Western Kentucky?
4. Who would have imagined that the ACC would haveca higher percentage of members with scandals than the SEC? Just an amazing performance.

You joke, but if Louisville loses accreditation, they can't play NCAA sports for at least two years, potentially resulting in expulsion from the ACC.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

Yes the data the state gets on scanned tickets isn't valid because it says turnstile count in the newspaper article.

As granular as you have been in parsing comments while arguing with anyone who attempts to show some optimism you absolutely deserved to be called out on turnstiles.

 

[Husky25]

There has not been a UConn football game at Rentchler that had 30k people in the stadium since Michigan.

Actual attendance has nothing to do with what they publish and that they have distributed 30k tickets by giving away 10k means nothing until people actually show up.

Something is special about Maine that didn't impact UMass, Towson or Villanova?

Season tickets are probably at an alltime low (note they don't publish a number) yet there is going to be 30k at the game Thursday when they haven't gotten that many in years - for much better games that weren't held on a holiday weekend and most schools are starting in the area.

There is actually data on gate scanned tickets. Google can be your friend.

Who died and made you HFD?

For the first time in six years, there is legitimate buzz surrounding this football program. That is the difference.

 

[FDNY99]

You joke, but if Louisville loses accreditation, they can't play NCAA sports for at least two years, potentially resulting in expulsion from the ACC.

That's a interesting point about losing accreditation...is there any way they can petition the NCAA for a waiver to that rule?

 

[CallMeBruce]

That's a interesting point about losing accreditation...is there any way they can petition the NCAA for a waiver to that rule?

I don't know, but I can't imagine any such appeal being granted. That's a pretty basic requirement.

 

[whaler11]

As granular as you have been in parsing comments while arguing with anyone who attempts to show some optimism you absolutely deserved to be called out on turnstiles.

I didn't write the article.

 

[whaler11]

Who died and made you HFD?

For the first time in six years, there is legitimate buzz surrounding this football program. That is the difference.

Yet season tickets are probably at an all time low.... interesting dynamic

 

[AZHuskiePop]

Read this and please stop about 30k in the building on Thursday. In 2009 they broke 30k once.


According to records at the state Office of Policy and Management, the university has never sold 40,000 tickets to a game. Of those 25 announced sellouts, the number of tickets sold has instead ranged from 32,800 to 35,362.

And the actual attendance, or the number of people who show up, has been much lower: During the 2005 football season, at which all six home games were announced as 40,000-seat sellouts, the highest turnstile/luxury count hit 32,021 and none of the other five games exceeded 30,000 people in the stands.

You are making a strong case for UConn not be invited to a P5 conference.
Based on your data the support for UConn football is worse than I imagined ,so maybe dropping football isn't that bad an idea.

 

[whaler11]

You are making a strong case for UConn not be invited to a P5 conference.
Based on your data the support for UConn football is worse than I imagined ,so maybe dropping football isn't that bad an idea.

UConn has a lot of P5 qualities. The football fanbase is not one of them.

 

[Husky25]

Yet season tickets are probably at an all time low.... interesting dynamic

Channeling your inner JSM1970 and Trumpian references (Many people are telling me... And they are smart people. The best people.)?

I don't know what the season ticket sales are. As you said, it has not been published. I also don't know why. You seem to think because it is dismal and that very well might be the case. OTOH, the 2016 Athletic Department has different leadership than that of 2015, so there could be any number and variations of reasons.

 

[FDNY99]

I don't know, but I can't imagine any such appeal being granted. That's a pretty basic requirement.

Just found this article...VERY interesting..same accreditation agency dealing with UL right now:
The News - Google News Archive Search

 

[whaler11]

Channeling your inner JSM1970 and Trumpian references (Many people are telling me... And they are smart people. The best people.)?

I don't know what the season ticket sales are. As you said, it has not been published. I also don't know why. You seem to think because it is dismal and that very well might be the case. OTOH, the 2016 Athletic Department has different leadership than that of 2015, so there could be any number and variations of reasons.

The numbers that were published earlier were off last year's dismal pace.

If the number was good and they didn't publish it that would be awfully stupid with everything going on.

 

[CL82]

Channeling your inner JSM1970 and Trumpian references (Many people are telling me... And they are smart people. The best people.)?

I don't know what the season ticket sales are. As you said, it has not been published. I also don't know why. You seem to think because it is dismal and that very well might be the case. OTOH, the 2016 Athletic Department has different leadership than that of 2015, so there could be any number and variations of reasons.

Practically speaking attendance at Maine matters less than at Tulane. If we've got good attendance for that game, it likely means that we have turned a corner. I think we will.

 

[CL82]

I don't actually care - someone felt the need to start quoting my posts with nonsense so I pointed out it's nonsense.

Why don't you go police his posts that had nothing to do with the ones he quoted.

Here's the thing, Whaler, if you are going to post on the internet, you have to be willing to accept that someone may disagree with you. It's funny that you are telling @Husky25 what he should or shouldn't post and yet you whine over my comparatively benign post.

Me thinks you may be a bit too thin skinned to be the board jerk.

 

[whaler11]

Here's the thing, Whaler, if you are going to post on the internet, you have to be willing to accept that someone may disagree with you. It's funny that you are telling @Husky25 what he should or shouldn't post and yet you whine over my comparatively benign post.

Me thinks you may be a bit too thin skinned to be the board jerk.

You might think about a little bit of self-awareness.

You feel the need to constantly tell me what I can and can't post - I'm asking why you don't police his posts.

You guys get all bent out of shape simply for the fact that I don't see every single thing through blue colored lenses. For example, the actual data on attendance is quite clear - I don't have the need to ignore it because I don't like what it says.

 

[CL82]

You might think about a little bit of self-awareness.

You feel the need to constantly tell me what I can and can't post - I'm asking why you don't police his posts.

You guys get all bent out of shape simply for the fact that I don't see every single thing through blue colored lenses. For example, the actual data on attendance is quite clear - I don't have the need to ignore it because I don't like what it says.

Actually, I don't "tell you what to post." That's your schtick. I do call you out it, however, mostly because of the sheer volume. Take this thread for instance. Here are the major contributors by number of posts:

AP: University of Louisville facing accreditation issues

1. 41 - whaler11
2. 11 - CL82
3. 6 - Husky25

Do you see a volume difference? It's one thing to write a jerky post every now and again. It's quite another to being doing that at Costco volumes.

...and I'll say it again, you actually post interesting stuff when you aren't telling other other people what to think or what to post. JMHO.

 

[sportsart]

All PC Richards locations giving away free tix to Maine game for mentioning Fox 61.

 

[mavblues]

Actually, I don't "tell you what to post." That's your schtick. I do call you out it, however, mostly because of the sheer volume. Take this thread for instance. Here are the major contributors by number of posts:

AP: University of Louisville facing accreditation issues

1. 41 - whaler11
2. 11 - CL82
3. 6 - Husky25

Do you see a volume difference? It's one thing to write a jerky post every now and again. It's quite another to being doing that at Costco volumes.

...and I'll say it again, you actually post interesting stuff when you aren't telling other other people what to think or what to post. JMHO.

41 useless posts vaporized by ignore bot. Best mouse click ever.

 

[whaler11]

41 useless posts vaporized by ignore bot. Best mouse click ever.

Nothing encourages me more than passive aggressive b!tches.

At the the end of the day that's really what this thread is about.

Still crying about Louisville. Some fantasy that anyone in the ACC has buyer's remorse on the Cardinals. Still blaming ESPN. Still blaming BC.

Trying to make an issue of graduation rates. Trying to take shots at Houston for getting a $20 million donation. Talking about their attendance at an NFL stadium where they are hosting Oklahoma with a top 15 team. As if anyone who went to UConn is better than anyone who went to Houston just because of where they went to college. This board does no favors to the idea that UConn is a great academic school.

UConn has been reduced to handing out tickets to anyone who will show up at a PC Richards.

Just whatever you do - don't blame the 'fanbase'. Everything that has happened is someone's else's fault and the there is so much buzz for the season that they have given up trying to sell tickets and instead just give them away.

Sure I have no business acumen but I spent the last two years telling you that's where the ticket policies were heading. Once you set the market for your tickets at zero - good luck selling them to anyone.

For you CL one last comment. You tell people what to post - again try a little self-awareness. I tell people what they post is stupid - but by all means post whatever nonsense makes people feel better.