Doubleheader Saturday!
Robert Morris -FDU at 2 and Duquesne - St. Bonaventure at 6:30.
Great way to spend a Saturday.
Would love to see a big turnout at Palumbo!

duqkurt wrote:

I’ll skip the RMU game thanks. I’m concerned about DU.

+1. RMU to me is that small yippy dawg biting at our heels trying to claim to be a better program. Talk to me when your playing someone besides Sacred Heart and Bryant in your conference schedule.

Last edited by Duques102 (2/02/2018 2:12 pm)

Duques102 wrote:

duqkurt wrote:

Presale for the Bonas game looks pretty good.   All the blue seats on both sides are sold and about 1/2 of the red seats on the bench side.   With a good walk up and students, hopefully we can be in the 3,500 to 4,000 range.

Of course, that will be with a good amount of Bona fans.   Who will annoying yell, "Lets Go Bonas" during the national anthem.  

How can you see this Kurt? Would like to check it as Saturday evening draws closer

Used to go to Olean, NY on business, all the peeps and newspapers refer to St, Bonaventure as “Bona “.there and they always packed the Reilly Center for games. Good fans who always treated me well at games as a Duquesne fan , and afterwards at the Beef and Barrell bar in town

duqkurt wrote:

Presale for the Bonas game looks pretty good.   All the blue seats on both sides are sold and about 1/2 of the red seats on the bench side.   With a good walk up and students, hopefully we can be in the 3,500 to 4,000 range.

Of course, that will be with a good amount of Bona fans.   Who will annoying yell, "Lets Go Bonas" during the national anthem.  

I think back to the Dayton game during the review of the altercation between Chas and Greek Freak's brother how the incident coupled with the UD fans "Let's Go Flyers" chant woke up our crowd and the Dukes definitely owned the play for the rest of the half and we know how it ended.
I then think back to Golden's antics in the Richmond game really [ticking] off the fans and the players responding with a huge run when everything about Duquesne looked dead before the incident.
All that said, I'm kind of hoping for Bona fans to act like it is their house and rile up the home fans from the jump for anyone that needs a little something to make them a little angry and cheer louder.

Only the Dukes game for me as well. RMU might want a change of venue after last night's showing at PPG. They trailed 36-6 with about 4 minutes to go in the first half in route to a 25 point home loss to the Mount.

Ghost of Walter White wrote:

Lighten up guys it's basketball.
Duquesne is my team and I will have my red on tomorrow night but I love college basketball.
I don't care who is playing.
I was there last night. The Mount had a 27-0 run. 
I have never seen anything like it and I've see a lot of hoops in my 64 years.

Hey more power to ya, nothing wrong with going to RMU games it's just not my cup of tea. I love college basketball too, but am weird about teams that my teams play routinely (Pitt and RMU, AFC North, Cubs and Cards). I don't like them and hope they lose but again, just my own opinion.

First time I heard the "Let's go Bonas" chant, I thought I was hearing "ers."

Thought their campus might have been a bit too secluded.

Ghost of Walter White wrote:

Lighten up guys it's basketball.
Duquesne is my team and I will have my red on tomorrow night but I love college basketball.
I don't care who is playing.
I was there last night. The Mount had a 27-0 run. 
I have never seen anything like it and I've see a lot of hoops in my 64 years.

I watched a bit of the rmu game too. They were absolutely awful. They have some talent every year, but they have been killed by the constant roster turnover. I'm shocked their coach hasn't left yet. I think he's a good young coach and talent evaluator.

I got the last 2 seats left in the blue end zone seats.
Let's make some noise................
In the immortal words of Bill Parcells " This is why ya lift all them weights!"

[b][b]Used to go to Olean, NY on business, all the peeps and newspapers refer to St, Bonaventure as “Bona “.there and they always packed the Reilly Center for games. Good fans who always treated me well at games as a Duquesne fan , and afterwards at the Beef and Barrell bar in town

Phil - I prefer the Hickey in Allegany, just off campus. Lou Ruby loves to have a blackberry brandy with his out-of-town guests. Great guy, great pub.[/b][/b]