DuqLaw95 wrote:

BluffHunter wrote:

DuqLaw95 wrote:

Student turnout was abysmal last night. Why can't more than 20 students make the 5 minute walk from their dorms? 

I truly think school administration should give out free tickets to the first 200 or so students who show up. Not like those seats are being used anyway. 

Students get in for free. Actually, last night students got in for free and received a complimentary Duquesne tote bag. Still not enough to get kids to go I guess.

Man, that's sad. School administration has to do SOMETHING to get more student support. I'm not sure what exactly, but the turnout is frankly embarrassing. 

I have pointed this out many times these last 7 seasons. RE was a master of turning around programs and filling up arenas. He was the one that had the kids come in at half-time and play BB, bringing in both the kids and their parents. It's entertaining and recruits future students to DU that have a passion for the sport. Second, winning early is everything. I said at the beginning of this year, win every OOC game or the place will be empty , and that high scoring offense builds interest and fills up the seats. As far as student attendance, give some real incentives, maybe seat upgrades to those empty premium seats for groups of 12 or more from Frats and Sororities. Just the rivalry between frats showing up or not would drive them to sign-up. Also,  have an after-game party in the practice gym for students that attend with the players and coaches with a DJ and music. Make it fun on game day, win or lose. .And one last thing, the cheep seats way up top that are never filled, invite kids from each Catholic grade school to have a night at the game and help provide transportation to make it work. Once again, that's building a future student body at DU that learned to love the game. Right now the student body on campus didn't come there to see the Dukes and it shows.  Also.  Could someone please fix that sound system at the Coop. It's awful and drives everyone crazy. No one can understand one word that announcer is saying?  And it would be nice to see replays on that screen all through the game. Everything I just suggested doesn't cost a bundle to implement. It would be something to try.

NapaDuke wrote:

DuqLaw95 wrote:

BluffHunter wrote:

Students get in for free. Actually, last night students got in for free and received a complimentary Duquesne tote bag. Still not enough to get kids to go I guess.

Man, that's sad. School administration has to do SOMETHING to get more student support. I'm not sure what exactly, but the turnout is frankly embarrassing. 

I have pointed this out many times these last 7 seasons. RE was a master of turning around programs and filling up arenas. He was the one that had the kids come in at half-time and play BB, bringing in both the kids and their parents. It's entertaining and recruits future students to DU that have a passion for the sport. Second, winning early is everything. I said at the beginning of this year, win every OOC game or the place will be empty , and that high scoring offense builds interest and fills up the seats. As far as student attendance, give some real incentives, maybe seat upgrades to those empty premium seats for groups of 12 or more from Frats and Sororities. Just the rivalry between frats showing up or not would drive them to sign-up. Also,  have an after-game party in the practice gym for students that attend with the players and coaches with a DJ and music. Make it fun on game day, win or lose. .And one last thing, the cheep seats way up top that are never filled, invite kids from each Catholic grade school to have a night at the game and help provide transportation to make it work. Once again, that's building a future student body at DU that learned to love the game. Right now the student body on campus didn't come there to see the Dukes and it shows.  Also.  Could someone please fix that sound system at the Coop. It's awful and drives everyone crazy. No one can understand one word that announcer is saying?  And it would be nice to see replays on that screen all through the game. Everything I just suggested doesn't cost a bundle to implement. It would be something to try.

I've given up on the students.   5000 on campus and 40 show up for a game.   They are tucked away in their precious dorm rooms with more luxuries than most working families.
Like the girls did that day, start hosting local school districts, for no charge, fill the empty seats with 8-14 y/o kids who will make some noise for the good guys.
Even if they were to beat Dayton, the next home game will have 40 students.   they are lame.

PG Article:
https://www.post-gazette.com/sports/duquesne/2026/02/18/hoops-basketball-ncaa-atlantic-10-duquesne-la-salle-dukes-explorers/stories/202602180037

DuqLaw95 wrote:

Student turnout was abysmal last night. Why can't more than 20 students make the 5 minute walk from their dorms? 

I truly think school administration should give out free tickets to the first 200 or so students who show up. Not like those seats are being used anyway. 

I don’t think they pay for tickets anyway!  They just have no interest!

https://x.com/a10talk/status/2024370963312165056?s=12
A10 Talk article Wild night in Pittsburgh

Used to have to walk all the way to the Arena. Of course with a stop at Shales.  After that, stand in line for an hour to wait for the doors to open.  Must attend days.  Why are the students seated in the end zone?  Used to fill up one side of the arena, practically on the floor.  Maybe if they played on the Southside, with all the bars. That’s most likely where they’re at. Or they may be in church, where the wi-fi is better.

townsonkid wrote:

NapaDuke wrote:

DuqLaw95 wrote:

Man, that's sad. School administration has to do SOMETHING to get more student support. I'm not sure what exactly, but the turnout is frankly embarrassing. 

I have pointed this out many times these last 7 seasons. RE was a master of turning around programs and filling up arenas. He was the one that had the kids come in at half-time and play BB, bringing in both the kids and their parents. It's entertaining and recruits future students to DU that have a passion for the sport. Second, winning early is everything. I said at the beginning of this year, win every OOC game or the place will be empty , and that high scoring offense builds interest and fills up the seats. As far as student attendance, give some real incentives, maybe seat upgrades to those empty premium seats for groups of 12 or more from Frats and Sororities. Just the rivalry between frats showing up or not would drive them to sign-up. Also,  have an after-game party in the practice gym for students that attend with the players and coaches with a DJ and music. Make it fun on game day, win or lose. .And one last thing, the cheep seats way up top that are never filled, invite kids from each Catholic grade school to have a night at the game and help provide transportation to make it work. Once again, that's building a future student body at DU that learned to love the game. Right now the student body on campus didn't come there to see the Dukes and it shows.  Also.  Could someone please fix that sound system at the Coop. It's awful and drives everyone crazy. No one can understand one word that announcer is saying?  And it would be nice to see replays on that screen all through the game. Everything I just suggested doesn't cost a bundle to implement. It would be something to try.

I've given up on the students.   5000 on campus and 40 show up for a game.   They are tucked away in their precious dorm rooms with more luxuries than most working families.
Like the girls did that day, start hosting local school districts, for no charge, fill the empty seats with 8-14 y/o kids who will make some noise for the good guys.
Even if they were to beat Dayton, the next home game will have 40 students.   they are lame.

Big point, get those grade school kids to come and see the best school and the best sport, they will come here for both. DU was great for the first 75 years and didn't need to build a fan base, but now, it's very essential to do just that. Both men and women BB. It's called investing in the future.

Mike Ignelsi wrote:

Used to have to walk all the way to the Arena. Of course with a stop at Shales. After that, stand in line for an hour to wait for the doors to open. Must attend days. Why are the students seated in the end zone? Used to fill up one side of the arena, practically on the floor. Maybe if they played on the Southside, with all the bars. That’s most likely where they’re at. Or they may be in church, where the wi-fi is better.

So did I, and about 3000 students, and Mossie Murphy right across the arena with another 2 to 3 thousand alum fans.  Fans too young to see Mossie put down his beer and get up and lead us in that cheer have missed a iconic legend like no other in college sports. Shoot shoot, raw raw.  He just stopped everything and we all got up and followed his call to cheer. Nothing like it in today's sports world. I was told about him before I came to DU, he was a sports legend, then I got to see him. He was a sports legend., and DU BB was Pittsburgh BB back then.  DJ and this admin. wants to get back there. RE was doing it, then DU fired him. Big hint, copy just what RE was doing, because what he was doing, was working.

Ron was the best. Charlie well total loser. Chuck. Let’s not forget the Quinipiac Clown. What a total loser. Duquesne in a good place today. Dr. Chuck & the clown incompetent losers.

Dougherty's tenure as university president has & will continue to be considered among the most distinguished in the institution's history. 

Amodio was well respected throughout the A-10 for helping to lift the moribund Duquesne men's basketball program to respectability. He is now 10 years into what is generally considered a well-respected, successful tenure at Quinnipiac University.

These " incompetent losers" were also responsible for hiring Ron Everhart.
(This is where someone usually claims to have irrefutable yet unpublishable proof that neither the university president nor the athletics director had anything to do with hiring RE, but they were both totally responsible for the truly shameful way in which he was fired.)

Ironduke81 wrote:

Ron was the best. Charlie well total loser. Chuck. Let’s not forget the Quinipiac Clown. What a total loser. Duquesne in a good place today. Dr. Chuck & the clown incompetent losers.

NapaDuke wrote:

BluffHunter wrote:

NapaDuke wrote:

So did I, and about 3000 students, and Mossie Murphy right across the arena with another 2 to 3 thousand alum fans.  Fans too young to see Mossie put down his beer and get up and lead us in that cheer have missed a iconic legend like no other in college sports. Shoot shoot, raw raw.  He just stopped everything and we all got up and followed his call to cheer. Nothing like it in today's sports world. I was told about him before I came to DU, he was a sports legend, then I got to see him. He was a sports legend., and DU BB was Pittsburgh BB back then.  DJ and this admin. wants to get back there. RE was doing it, then DU fired him. Big hint, copy just what RE was doing, because what he was doing, was working.

Really loved the first half of the post, then it went back to the same tired Ron Everhart bs. You know Keith Dambrot was the one to get Duquesne back to the tournament right? With Dru Joyce by his side? If RE was so good why is he announcing high school basketball these days?? Coming from somebody who respects the hell out of what he did at Duquesne.

Yes, you are right in one point, but, missed my point. KD, and DJ, both along with Admin. do not know how to bring fans into the games, when no one came in the first place. I actually got to personally know Ron when he was here, mainly because as one of his fan building efforts, he had a summer picnic, to which, no one came, except, well, me. He and I not only became friends but he allowed me to e-mail him every week, back and forth,  for the entire time he was here. BUT, with all of  KD's Lebron's ties and  now JD, with the  same advantage, can not fill the COOP at all?  RE didn't have anything coming in here, but, yet, beat an 8th ranked Xavier, and a 10th ranked Temple team and sell out the Polumbo 6 or 7 times and fill the Pen's arena with 6000 to 8000 fans several times. But, yes,  KD did stumble into winning the A-10 which now looks like a fluke. Start thinking, just how or why did RE do so much with nothing. Also,but you forgot, Ron, with nothing, did get to the A-10 finals too. Do you want to see the COOP filled or do you want to debate that Ron didn't do a GD thing at DU when he was here? Because no one else but RE brought fans into the stands. And yes, RE is announcing HS games, but, you never knew him. I did, and I respect his devotion to the game, and his family, you don't.

This is a recap, to all of you fans, that were too young to remember Danny Nee's  death spiral of DU BB. It was rock bottom, then, they hired RE. He as known as a turn around coach. He was. And he came to DU. He quickly got rid of every player from Nee's team except Acurea, and one pesty play that would not leave. A-Jax.  So RE recruited a very promising team, but that shooting on campus destroyed any chance of a real team on the court. RE only had 9 players? Not enough to even have a practice game, unless a coach was the 10th guy.. RE actually had an "open try-out" for anyone on campus to try out???   Jason Duty, did not. But, by luck, a Women's BB player knew Jason, and the coaching staff actually had to find him and ask him to join the team. Well, he did. That OOC, we just sucked. Then RE told those kids, we do suck, but, since nothing matters, I would like to implement a style that I had followed from a D-3 team somewhere in the mid-west. All 10 players, 5 at a time, run the hell every 4 minutes, and sub in , whole-sell, 5, then 5, and again. We started that A-10 season and he beat the hell out of 5 strait teams with, exactly, no good players? I came, for the first time in 40 years to see this. It was a sell out. I bought my tickets on line, but the line on the street to get in that game looked like a mile. We won several games after  that game scoring over 100 points, but that game  we lost by something like 102 to 105.  Ron's teams in that 4 years were in the top 5 in scoring, and steals For the next four years, me and my wife had season tickets, just to watch every game we would hit 100 points or nearly, and to the point, no one left the Polumbo early when Ron's team was on a crazy run to 100. RE went from a shooting to filling the home court in the same year with players that equaled a D-2 team. It was all RE.And to my amazement, why doesn't DU actually honour Ron Everharts amazing years here and overcoming that shooting that crippled his team to start his years at DU?  It's sad, it's nuts. No other coach in D-1 every endured such a crazed tragedy, and was never honored for just how he responed.    

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phil95 wrote:

From the team records I accessed, RE's average home attendance per game was 3,008 with 2 sell-outs. KD's number was 2,254 with 0 sell-outs. (KD did have to contend with the disadvantages of both COVID & 1.5 seasons of not multiple "home" courts due to the Palumbo renovation.)

In 18 years as a D-1 head coach, RE:
-Tied for 1st in the Southland Conference regular season championship & won a second outright
-Did not win a regular-season championship in the American East, Colonial, or A-10 conferences
-Did not win a conference tournament or NCAA bid at any school
-Earned 3 NIT bids as a head coach, but did not win an NIT game
-Had a losing conference record in 4 of the 6 seasons he coached in the A-10, leading to a losing in-conference record for the duration of his time as Duquesne's coach
-Had career winning percentage as a D-1 head of .511 while ecording .527 at Duquesne
-Had 28 players transfer, quit, or be removed from the team for bad behaviour in 6 seasons at Duquesne & a decade before the transfer portal existed
-Was never again hired a a head coach

I was proud of the way he represented the university, but his D-1 head coaching career was the very definition of mediocrity, he had no great success filling the arena/growing the fan base, his teams floundered in the last month of the season 4 out of 6 seasons, & deserved to be fired after underachieving in years 4, 5, & 6.

NapaDuke wrote:

BluffHunter wrote:

Really loved the first half of the post, then it went back to the same tired Ron Everhart bs. You know Keith Dambrot was the one to get Duquesne back to the tournament right? With Dru Joyce by his side? If RE was so good why is he announcing high school basketball these days?? Coming from somebody who respects the hell out of what he did at Duquesne.

Yes, you are right in one point, but, missed my point. KD, and DJ, both along with Admin. do not know how to bring fans into the games, when no one came in the first place. I actually got to personally know Ron when he was here, mainly because as one of his fan building efforts, he had a summer picnic, to which, no one came, except, well, me. He and I not only became friends but he allowed me to e-mail him every week, back and forth,  for the entire time he was here. BUT, with all of  KD's Lebron's ties and  now JD, with the  same advantage, can not fill the COOP at all?  RE didn't have anything coming in here, but, yet, beat an 8th ranked Xavier, and a 10th ranked Temple team and sell out the Polumbo 6 or 7 times and fill the Pen's arena with 6000 to 8000 fans several times. But, yes,  KD did stumble into winning the A-10 which now looks like a fluke. Start thinking, just how or why did RE do so much with nothing. Also,but you forgot, Ron, with nothing, did get to the A-10 finals too. Do you want to see the COOP filled or do you want to debate that Ron didn't do a GD thing at DU when he was here? Because no one else but RE brought fans into the stands. And yes, RE is announcing HS games, but, you never knew him. I did, and I respect his devotion to the game, and his family, you don't.

 

Well, OK, Phil, by your twisted BS, Ron didn't beat 8th ranked Xavier, because you said so. Also, Ron didn;t fill the Polumbo, because as your twist thinking, he didn't.  Also, Ron didn't beat a 10 rank Temple, though he did?? Ron didn't do anything, BUT, all of of us know he did?  So, why is it so important to you to make believe Ron never actually existed? No really, you have done this over and over for the last 20 years? What the hell is your problem. 
 

NapaDuke wrote:

BluffHunter wrote:

NapaDuke wrote:

Well, OK, Phil, by your twisted BS, Ron didn't beat 8th ranked Xavier, because you said so. Also, Ron didn;t fill the Polumbo, because as your twist thinking, he didn't.  Also, Ron didn't beat a 10 rank Temple, though he did?? Ron didn't do anything, BUT, all of of us know he did?  So, why is it so important to you to make believe Ron never actually existed? No really, you have done this over and over for the last 20 years? What the hell is your problem. 
 

Make a thread called Reminiscing Ron Everhart. This is about the La Salle game. Which Duquesne won with a play that was #5 on SportsCenter. And somehow the conversation shifts to complaining about fans in the stands and even further.

You know Bluff, someone asked, just how or why we can fill the COOP. I was there, I actually knew Ron, he had a plan, every place to fill that place up. Then some a-hole tells me Ron didn't bring fans in? OK, I was there, believe what you want, but, the subject started with, NO ONE COMES TO THE GD GAMES?? Want answer's, I gave you them? Want PHILS fantacies, that's OK too.

And your “answer” was that there was the horrible shooting on campus, Ron recruited regular students to the team as a result, they ran an extremely unconventional style of play and rattled off a streak of wins, and people came to watch!! Of course they did, it was a national story! How about this time we just keep winning to have people show up without all the rest. Plays like last night get attention. It’s harder than ever to get people to want to spend money on your product, especially entertainment.