we still got Red Suit guy in the Other section....Not filling up 1 tiny section behind the basket with students is mind boggling. They need to get away from their video games or whatever and show up. That section hadn’t been the same since our best student fan ever Bill B ( the sleeveless guy ) got banned when they figured out he was there for almost 20 years and was married with kids
Rick Pitino - Head Coach at St John’s University!!!
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Yeah Red Suit Guy is their best fan in that section
Billy is over 30 and taught for about 10 years at a local catholic hs.
GET HIM BACK!He’s about 10 years younger than Bill B Sleaveless guy then
I don't think that its unreasonable to expect 400-500 students from a university with over 20,000. That would make a huge difference in homecourt advantage.
His team came in second in the Trivia Contest last Friday.
There you go, gloating again.
He’s about one season away from a Chris Hansen to catch a predator episode then
I jokingly say that I’ve met him he’s a great guyIf you throw out the father son relationship K State would have been a better draw for MSG and the N Mex game could have played at CA.
Lasr season, we fielded a good, competitive team. Pitino worked overtime in promoting the program everywhere he went.
A good, competitive team is encouraging to a base of followers. It's not good enough to expand the fan base significantly. Students have zero point of reference in terms of being excited enough about the team to flock to games.
Think about it. Many teams with successful sports teams attract applicstions each year from kids because of their football or basketball success. I doubt (m)any kids come to st johns because of our men’s basketball team.
We've had glimpses of comprtitive teams playing good basketball over 25 years. Only Lavin's first team, and only for a brief run, woke the city up. The culmination was the Pitt game at the Garden. When DJ went down so did the season. The next season was a disaster and poof went any buzz.
So, if kids aren't coming to st johns for basketball, what makes anyone think they should come to watch merely good competitive basketball?
If we make a strong showing in the Bahamas,,if we knock off a few top tier BE teams and battle for the conference title, students should follow. In terms of alums, kids who graduated they year of our last NCAA run (and last ncaa win) are now 46 years old.
With all that NYC is still a sports city, a basketball city, albeit much more diverse than the city was in the year 2000. As the Mets found, the city didn't turn its full attention to the orange and blue till we slipped into the playoffs and played before packed houses vs. The Brewers, Phillies, and Dodgers.
Should fans and students come now? Yes. Will they? Not so fast. Last season the demand for BET tourney tix was so great that our ticket office was swamped.
Better for us to just pay attention to what's on the court and not what's in the stands. We will know way before the masses if this team is very good and very competitive.
A good, competitive team is encouraging to a base of followers. It's not good enough to expand the fan base significantly. Students have zero point of reference in terms of being excited enough about the team to flock to games.
Think about it. Many teams with successful sports teams attract applicstions each year from kids because of their football or basketball success. I doubt (m)any kids come to st johns because of our men’s basketball team.
We've had glimpses of comprtitive teams playing good basketball over 25 years. Only Lavin's first team, and only for a brief run, woke the city up. The culmination was the Pitt game at the Garden. When DJ went down so did the season. The next season was a disaster and poof went any buzz.
So, if kids aren't coming to st johns for basketball, what makes anyone think they should come to watch merely good competitive basketball?
If we make a strong showing in the Bahamas,,if we knock off a few top tier BE teams and battle for the conference title, students should follow. In terms of alums, kids who graduated they year of our last NCAA run (and last ncaa win) are now 46 years old.
With all that NYC is still a sports city, a basketball city, albeit much more diverse than the city was in the year 2000. As the Mets found, the city didn't turn its full attention to the orange and blue till we slipped into the playoffs and played before packed houses vs. The Brewers, Phillies, and Dodgers.
Should fans and students come now? Yes. Will they? Not so fast. Last season the demand for BET tourney tix was so great that our ticket office was swamped.
Better for us to just pay attention to what's on the court and not what's in the stands. We will know way before the masses if this team is very good and very competitive.