Red Storm Tip-Off

Just heard from a reputable source that Acquista's is unable to do the chicken parm give away because they have the Grasso/Mastramarino wedding to cater this weekend. I guess they've had them booked since January. I don't know how the hell we're going to have a tip off show without fkn chicken parm sammys... Just another failure on this administration. Guess we'll have to eat a damn hot dog or something. I don't know...
 
[quote="rawdognyc" post=297534]Just heard from a reputable source that Acquista's is unable to do the chicken parm give away because they have the Grasso/Mastramarino wedding to cater this weekend. I guess they've had them booked since January. I don't know how the hell we're going to have a tip off show without fkn chicken parm sammys... Just another failure on this administration. Guess we'll have to eat a damn hot dog or something. I don't know...[/quote]
As long as it's not a raw dog.
 
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It's just very strange, because these are supposed to be batting practice fastballs that we seem to swing and miss at. Keep in mind this is a major recruiting event. Recruits want to know who's performing too. Other schools are rolling out Meek Mill, Drake, etc. and the rumor is that some underground rapper from Harlem is coming...someone I've never heard of and don't think many have. How are fans/recruits supposed to get excited with no information 2 days before tip off? I know I may exaggerate at times but this really isn't one of them. Go check how other schools run this stuff.

https://pcbb1917.com/2018/09/26/2-c...ovidence-friars-late-night-madness-ed-cooley/

Check out how Providence does it the right way. Big name performing (2 Chainz) and it has been known to fans at least back to 9/26 if not earlier. Cooley also indicated it was a very important recruiting tool and wanted more invested into it.
 
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[quote="Mike Zaun" post=297543]It's just very strange, because these are supposed to be batting practice fastballs that we seem to swing and miss at. Keep in mind this is a major recruiting event. Recruits want to know who's performing too. Other schools are rolling out Meek Mill, Drake, etc. and the rumor is that some underground rapper from Harlem is coming...someone I've never heard of and don't think many have. How are fans/recruits supposed to get excited with no information 2 days before tip off? I know I may exaggerate at times but this really isn't one of them. Go check how other schools run this stuff.

https://pcbb1917.com/2018/09/26/2-c...ovidence-friars-late-night-madness-ed-cooley/

Check out how Providence does it the right way. Big name performing (2 Chainz) and it has been known to fans at least back to 9/26 if not earlier. Cooley also indicated it was a very important recruiting tool and wanted more invested into it.[/quote]

Remind me what Big time recruit that attended a Tip off committed to us.
 
That Sheck Wes guy is official for Tip Off. I'll age myself my admitting I've never heard of him until this week. I was pulling for Billy Joel personally but not sure that would have generated the same buzz with the kids LOL.
 
Windy City Johnny Fan wrote: That Sheck Wes guy is official for Tip Off. I'll age myself my admitting I've never heard of him until this week. I was pulling for Billy Joel personally but not sure that would have generated the same buzz with the kids LOL.

WSJF, my wife and I are actually going to see Billy Joe at Wake Forest's football stadium on Saturday so would be a quick turnaround for the Piano Man, although he probably would have generated more zzzz's than buzz with the college kids.
 
[quote="Paultzman" post=297485]Expect Dawes to be there[/quote]

With his announcement coming tomorrow...I dont think a prospect to attend a Tip off event to a school he didnt commit to...lol....positive vibes ...
 
[quote="Mike Zaun" post=297543]It's just very strange, because these are supposed to be batting practice fastballs that we seem to swing and miss at. Keep in mind this is a major recruiting event. Recruits want to know who's performing too. Other schools are rolling out Meek Mill, Drake, etc. and the rumor is that some underground rapper from Harlem is coming...someone I've never heard of and don't think many have. How are fans/recruits supposed to get excited with no information 2 days before tip off? I know I may exaggerate at times but this really isn't one of them. Go check how other schools run this stuff.

https://pcbb1917.com/2018/09/26/2-c...ovidence-friars-late-night-madness-ed-cooley/

Check out how Providence does it the right way. Big name performing (2 Chainz) and it has been known to fans at least back to 9/26 if not earlier. Cooley also indicated it was a very important recruiting tool and wanted more invested into it.[/quote]

At the end of the day, how much does it even matter? Look, most of the kids who come to this event to see a rapper, never end up coming to any of the games. I also don't remember us ever landing any of the recruits who came to these events for us in the past few years, and we certainly have had some names.

Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see us do it up as big as possible, but for whatever reason that didn't happen this year. Also another reminder that this event is targeted at current students and not posters on this board.
 
[quote="Windy City Johnny Fan" post=297560]That Sheck Wes guy is official for Tip Off. I'll age myself my admitting I've never heard of him until this week. I was pulling for Billy Joel personally but not sure that would have generated the same buzz with the kids LOL.[/quote]

I was pulling for Tony Bennett. The highlight of the evening could have been Tony and Lou singing "New York, New York " as a duo. It could have drawn 5,000 retired redmen at $ 200 a pop. The $1 million could have been used to pay off Slice. :)
 
[quote="Room112" post=297574][quote="Mike Zaun" post=297543]It's just very strange, because these are supposed to be batting practice fastballs that we seem to swing and miss at. Keep in mind this is a major recruiting event. Recruits want to know who's performing too. Other schools are rolling out Meek Mill, Drake, etc. and the rumor is that some underground rapper from Harlem is coming...someone I've never heard of and don't think many have. How are fans/recruits supposed to get excited with no information 2 days before tip off? I know I may exaggerate at times but this really isn't one of them. Go check how other schools run this stuff.

https://pcbb1917.com/2018/09/26/2-c...ovidence-friars-late-night-madness-ed-cooley/

Check out how Providence does it the right way. Big name performing (2 Chainz) and it has been known to fans at least back to 9/26 if not earlier. Cooley also indicated it was a very important recruiting tool and wanted more invested into it.[/quote]

At the end of the day, how much does it even matter? Look, most of the kids who come to this event to see a rapper, never end up coming to any of the games. I also don't remember us ever landing any of the recruits who came to these events for us in the past few years, and we certainly have had some names.

Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see us do it up as big as possible, but for whatever reason that didn't happen this year. Also another reminder that this event is targeted at current students and not posters on this board.[/quote]

You can have the best of both worlds.

They can do the midnight madness style event for the students, and bring back the open practice they did for season ticket holders at MSG a few years ago. That was a cool event. We saw some drills that they ran, a 20 minute scrimmage, Lavin took questions, and the players stuck around afterwards to sign autographs. You could do it at Carnesecca Arena just as easily, if you don't want to tie down MSG for that.

Lavin mentioned then that they were trying to make that an annual event, but that would up being his final season at St. John's, and they haven't picked it up since.
 
[quote="Windy City Johnny Fan" post=297560]I was pulling for Billy Joel personally but not sure that would have generated the same buzz with the kids LOL.[/quote]

I've been away too long. I thought everyone in NY loved Billy Joel, no matter what their age.
 
[quote="Redman#13" post=297557]
Remind me what Big time recruit that attended a Tip off committed to us.[/quote]

Brandon Sampson? I thought he was a winter verbal after attending our tip off. He also danced up a storm, but couldn't coax Diallo to bust a move.
 
I feel like Sheck Wes is the type of guest performer they’d get at Suffolk Community College for their tip off. Seems like admin didn’t take this seriously and went the cheapest route. Don’t expect a sellout. No idea who this guy is and I actually stay pretty current on these guys. Go look up his “hit” Mo Bamba...it’s just him moaning into a mic and never heard it once.
 
Sheck Wes is definitely not a bad choice. I don't know how much you keep up with today's music, but his song "Mo Bamba" is probably one of the most popular songs out right now. If you walk around campus for a day you will probably hear it playing at least five times. I'm expecting a good performance.
 
[quote="Mike Zaun" post=297592]I feel like Sheck Wes is the type of guest performer they’d get at Suffolk Community College for their tip off. Seems like admin didn’t take this seriously and went the cheapest route. Don’t expect a sellout. No idea who this guy is and I actually stay pretty current on these guys. Go look up his “hit” Mo Bamba...it’s just him moaning into a mic and never heard it once.[/quote]


Drake brought out Sheck Wes at a show on his tour to perform his top 100 billboard song. So he was good enough for Drake the biggest hip hop artist on the planet. But he isn't good enough for SJU? Makes sense. Again this event is for COLLEGE KIDS

 
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[quote="Double J" post=297597]Sheck Wes is definitely not a bad choice. I don't know how much you keep up with today's music, but his song "Mo Bamba" is probably one of the most popular songs out right now. If you walk around campus for a day you will probably hear it playing at least five times. I'm expecting a good performance.[/quote]

He's very unknown in name. I saw he's signed to Kanye's label, however he's pretty much brand new it looks like. In the past we did very well with French Montana and though Dave East said stupid things, I knew who he was and the crowd was looking forward to him. Just ran a quick poll on twitter and 51% said they do not like the choice (SJ fans). 45 votes so far total. I'm sure it would've been 80%+ approval for Dave East and French Montana in years past. Don't want to make an overly big deal over this, but the administration definitely swung and missed here for tip off after swinging and missing with the schedule and elite camp. Cragg has his work cut out for him from day 1. No more mom and pop please.

Update: 59 votes and 53% disapprove. Lol
 
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[quote="RedStormNC" post=297474]last year's Tip-Off was streamed on school's Facebook live account.

Does anyone know if that will be the same again this year ?[/quote]


just re-checking... does anyone have a connection to find out ?
 
[quote="Mike Zaun" post=297600][quote="Double J" post=297597]Sheck Wes is definitely not a bad choice. I don't know how much you keep up with today's music, but his song "Mo Bamba" is probably one of the most popular songs out right now. If you walk around campus for a day you will probably hear it playing at least five times. I'm expecting a good performance.[/quote]

He's very unknown in name. I saw he's signed to Kanye's label, however he's pretty much brand new it looks like. In the past we did very well with French Montana and though Dave East said stupid things, I knew who he was and the crowd was looking forward to him. Just ran a quick poll on twitter and 51% said they do not like the choice (SJ fans). 45 votes so far total. I'm sure it would've been 80%+ approval for Dave East and French Montana in years past. Don't want to make an overly big deal over this, but the administration definitely swung and missed here for tip off after swinging and missing with the schedule and elite camp. Cragg has his work cut out for him from day 1. No more mom and pop please.

Update: 59 votes and 53% disapprove. Lol[/quote]

I don't know what kind of demographic your followers are, but I can tell you that students on campus like him.
 
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