MBB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[smedindy]

Ah, but Wabash has the best bargain in town for hoops.

It's free to be...you and me!

[imderekpoe]

Where else can you get three quality hours of entertainment for that price.

On Feb 3 you can get that same quality entertainment for 5 bucks in Wooster!

The point is, you are whining about something for no good reason, other than to run down Witt.

I think the point was that the admission price was out of line compared to what other DIII colleges charge for men's basketball, and WAY out of line for what  they charge for women's hoops.  As Smedindy points out, games at Wabash (and many other DIII schools) are free!


I thought that we had gotten past the name calling and personal jabs...

[woosterbooster]

Still the digs about ticket prices at the HPER.  $8 = 2 Lattes +/- .  < 2 packs tobacco products.  3 (?) beers just about anywhere, if you're lucky.  Where else can you get three quality hours of entertainment for that price.  Have you bowled lately? You remind me of the people who walk past a club saying, "$2 cover?  C'mon, the place down the street is $1."  Get real, when drinks are $3.  Tell me, are you a teacher, or perhaps a civil servant?

You're comparing apples to oranges.  It's more like comparing one coffeehouse to another.  The first one sells a latte for $4, and they offer free refills (a free women's game when they precede the men).  The other sells their lattes for $6.40 (60% higher), with no free refills.

I still dare anyone to find a single DIII school that charges $8 for men's basketball, let alone women's.  Or, a DIII school that does not allow admission to both the men's and women's game for one price when they are in one time frame. 

Believe it or not, I'd be bothered by this no matter which school was doing it, including Wooster.  I don't smoke anymore, don't frequent clubs, don't have a Wooster education, am not a teacher or civil servant, and a basketball does not last three hours unless it goes into multiple overtimes.

[pennstghs]

drt try to make some sense in what you say first of all

come on guys i thought we were over this argument-its not like witt is gonna refund the extra 3 dollars

[Li'l Giant]

8 dollars? Look, I understand, people have kids, bills, etc. But 8 dollars? That's like what, lunch at Chili's? A quarter tank of gas? The last time I went to a movie the tickets for my girlfriend and I were nearly 20 bucks! Seriously, give it a rest. If you didn't want to pay it you shouldn't have. No one put a gun to your head and made you buy that ticket.

[David Collinge]

I want to be clear from the outset that I was not and am not bothered by the $8 charge for either the men's or women's game.  Reasonable minds can differ on this question.  I'm only dipping my toe in this for the sake of providing a little relevant background.

If you didn't want to pay it you shouldn't have. No one put a gun to your head and made you buy that ticket.

We found out about the $8 women's ticket, separate from the men's ticket that we had bought in advance, upon arrival at the HPER door.  It is true that we could have known about it in advance, had we thought to check with Wittenberg, but that did not occur to us, being that we are accustomed to free admission for women's hoops.  So the choice presented to us was either pay the $8 for the women's game, or find something to do for 3.5 hours (until the start of the men's JV game), or return to Wooster.  Not exactly a "gun to the head," but none of the choices were palatable if you don't want to pay the $8. 

[Gregory Sager]

See, this is the kind of stuff that can really add spice to a rivalry. Calvin fans and Hope fans find every little pretext, every little niggling detail, to be a reason to nag at the other school, and it really feeds their mutual antipathy even when they're not playing each other. The whole extra-$8-for-a-women's-game thing may just make that next Witt/Woo game extra nasty .... and therefore extra special.

A good grudge has to be fed and nurtured, just as if it was one of your children.

[sac]

I still dare anyone to find a single DIII school that charges $8 for men's basketball, let alone women's.  Or, a DIII school that does not allow admission to both the men's and women's game for one price when they are in one time frame. 

Just for reference............the cushy seats at Hope ar $10, reserved $8 and general admission $6............. if you get the $3.50 orange plastic sippy cup you can return it all season for free refills.

Women's games are $5 and you can sit wherever you want.

When men and women played double-headers last season, you paid the men's game price.


The small college tournament in Grand Rapids charged $8 for general admission to everyone.

Every other MIAA school charges $5............I'm not sure but I don't think they charge for anyone but Hope and Calvin.


Look at it this way your supporting a Division 3 athletic program by shelling out $8. 

[goodknight]

See, this is the kind of stuff that can really add spice to a rivalry. Calvin fans and Hope fans find every little pretext, every little niggling detail, to be a reason to nag at the other school, and it really feeds their mutual antipathy even when they're not playing each other. The whole extra-$8-for-a-women's-game thing may just make that next Witt/Woo game extra nasty .... and therefore extra special.

A good grudge has to be fed and nurtured, just as if it was one of your children.

Exactly, Greg!  Why, you should have heard what a major Hope donor and board member said to me yesterday at the United Center about Calvin's new arena.
But I'm almost over it.

[sac]

Goodknights response:  "It's been in the master plan for years"

[goodknight]

Goodknights response:  "It's been in the master plan for years"

Actually...for many years...and no less than many weeks before the DeVos Fieldhouse was conceived.

[David Collinge]

Just for reference............the cushy seats at Hope ar $10, reserved $8 and general admission $6.

Yes, but your $10/$8/$6 admission to DeVos buys you something you can't get at the HPER Center:

[earlhamalum]

In other news Earlham beats Franklin College on the Road today.   

Earlham 71
Franklin 66

Billyp- Make that 3 in a Rowwwwwwwwwwww

[Li'l Giant]

Final from Granville:

Wabash 56
Denison 52

LGs never trailed in this game starting out with an 11-2 run. Wabash lead by as many as 12 in the second half but the Big Red made a run in the final minutes getting as close as 4. Good job by Wabash to withstand the run on the road and get the win.

Andrew Zimmer led the LGs with 20 points and Chase Haltom had 16.

Next up for Wabash is a game at Franklin on Monday night. Wabash is 3-5 overall, 1-1 in the NCAC.

[wooscotsfan]

At the Half:  Wooster 48  Cedarville 47

This was a high scoring half with both teams shooting well (over 50%).

Wooster (7-0) is being led by Tom Port with 16 points, James Cooper with 10 points, Tim Vandervaart with 7 points and Brandon Johnson with 7 points.

Cedarville (9-1) is being led by Ryan Short with 13 points, Chris Beals with 10 points and Chris Walker with 8 points.

GO SCOTS!