Kerry Blackshear

[Da_Lucky_One]

You are one of the worst posters here.

It takes two teams to schedule a game. Florida doesn't want to play Miami every year in basketball. That's a known fact.

Season tickets are sold out and attendance has never been better than it has been in recent years. Playing FIU (who nobody cares about) isn't going to get more people interested.

Season tickets and a sell out crowd are two different things. The largest allotment of season tickets that Miami has ever sold was 5750 tickets in 2016. Also, Miami did not sell out its season tickets last season.

Scheduling FIU and FAU would be better than Lehigh or SFA as their fans, students and alumni would come to Coral Gables to watch those games. Vice Versa, Miami going to FIU or FAU for a game would be the highlight of their earlier schedule. UCF and UF made the NCAA tournament while USF won the CBI tournament. How could you not sell out those games or create interest in your fan base by scheduling those games?

Also, enrollment at FIU (55k), FAU (30k), UCF (66K), USF (49k) and UF (52k) means their is a high likelihood of sellouts of the Watsco Center (8k).

Don't say is can't be done without trying. Obviously, no one is buying tickets to the current non-conference schedule format.

 

[Peter Gibbons]

Scheduling FIU and FAU would be better than Lehigh or SFA as their fans, students and alumni would come to Coral Gables to watch those games.

You're just making this up.

They don't even go to the football games we play against them, kid.

 

[Peter Gibbons]

Vice Versa, Miami going to FIU or FAU for a game would be the highlight of their earlier schedule.

This is true but it doesn't do any good for us. What benefit do we have by filling up their 4,500-seat arena?

 

[Peter Gibbons]

UCF and UF made the NCAA tournament while USF won the CBI tournament. How could you not sell out those games or create interest in your fan base by scheduling those games?

Florida will not play Miami in basketball every year.

What are you not understanding about that?

 

[Peter Gibbons]

How could you not sell out those games or create interest in your fan base by scheduling those games?

Because nobody that would go to a UM basketball game cares about USF or UCF basketball.

 

[Peter Gibbons]

Don't say is can't be done without trying. Obviously, no one is buying tickets to the current non-conference schedule format.

It's not done because people a lot smarter than you have a lot more information than you.

 

[IncaneInTheBrain]

Not that I think it would be an issue, but I'm pretty sure VTech would need to approve an intraconference transfer

 

[FreeVilma]

Not that I think it would be an issue, but I'm pretty sure VTech would need to approve an intraconference transfer

Pretty sure hes a grad transfer so they couldn't do anything about it.

Looks like hes gonna get interest from all the blue bloods (apparently UK has already reached out)

 

[TheRichtShow]

I have said it for the last two seasons. Miami should schedule home and home men's basketball games with UF, FGCU, USF, UCF, FIU and FAU. I think playing more state schools would be alot better than scheduling the likes of Campbell, SFA, Lehigh, Houston Baptist or Bethune Cookman.

If UF wants to go neutral site then Miami should play Florida in the Orange Bowl Classic every year. I am so against soft scheduling.

Games against other Florida schools are easier to market and draw a crowd. At some point, selling out the Watsco Center has to be the goal.

UF cancelled the series vs us. We used to play almost every year until recently. Go complain to UF, because nothing Miami can do about it.

And you're being hypocritical if you talk wanting to play FGCU, USF, FIU, FAU, and being against soft scheduling. Those schools are just as bad as the ones you mentioned. And they have 0 fans so it wouldnt help attendance anyways

 

[TheOriginalCane]

You are one of the worst posters here.

It takes two teams to schedule a game. Florida doesn't want to play Miami every year in basketball. That's a known fact.

Season tickets are sold out and attendance has never been better than it has been in recent years. Playing FIU (who nobody cares about) isn't going to get more people interested.

Come on, man, it's about more than just selling tickets.

You get the UM name out in other areas of Florida. Tampa/Orlando/Fort Myers newspapers cover your boxscores and write articles about you. Locals in those areas get to see you. It's OOC games, of course we are not selling season tix based on our OOC basketball schedule.

Play the long game. Chess, not checkers. Play other teams in Florida, win lots of games in football, basketball, and baseball, and stores across the state will start carrying our merch again.

 

[Da_Lucky_One]

Come on, man, it's about more than just selling tickets.

You get the UM name out in other areas of Florida. Tampa/Orlando/Fort Myers newspapers cover your boxscores and write articles about you. Locals in those areas get to see you. It's OOC games, of course we are not selling season tix based on our OOC basketball schedule.

Play the long game. Chess, not checkers. Play other teams in Florida, win lots of games in football, basketball, and baseball, and stores across the state will start carrying our merch again.

Thank you. Someone who sees the bigger picture.