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    Miami basketball needs a "Midnight Madness" basketball event for recruiting purposes.

    Anyone see the Snoop Dogg performance that wound up the "Late Night At The Phog" promotion at Kansas? Bill Self and the KU administration are aghast at his raunchy, explicit show with pole dancers, his Money Gun shooting money with his pic on it into the crowd, etc. They didn't even need this...
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    Miami basketball needs a "Midnight Madness" basketball event for recruiting purposes.

    Miami, the town and area, has come a LONG way with hoops since I was at UM in the mid-60s. Back then, many of the large high schools didn't even have indoor gyms (they played their games at schools that did, like Edison). That tells you how important HS basketball was back then. UM, itself...
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    Miami basketball needs a "Midnight Madness" basketball event for recruiting purposes.

    Think you're optimistic you could get a half full arena for a promotion event, even if it is free. I'm not sure you could get 4000 people if you offered to give THEM a $10 bill at the door and free food.
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    Miami basketball needs a "Midnight Madness" basketball event for recruiting purposes.

    Sometimes it's better NOT to give recruits a point of comparison, if you are not sure you'll look good. Can you imagine being at "Late Night At The Phog" with a howling, sold out arena, then doing the same sort of event at the BUC with several hundred fans rattling around the place? Sort of...
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    Miami basketball needs a "Midnight Madness" basketball event for recruiting purposes.

    I think we used to have one, some decades back. I'd be worried these days about being embarrassed by a low turnout. What if only 1000 (or less) showed up ...
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