Games of Interest for Monday, 11/11/13 through Saturday, 11/16/13

[Play Angry]

DePaul's biggest mistake (besides sucking for twenty years) was building that arena way out in Rosemont. They had a stranglehold on Chicago's sizeable inner city talent during Ray and (the first part of) Joey Meyer's tenures. Now they're no longer viewed as a "city" team, even though their entire academic campus is in town.

[jocoshock]

Reading MVCFans is a bad idea but sometimes it is hard to ignore the train wreck in front of you. In this thread http://mvcfans.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3383&start=12, however, it seems like a Shocker fan (or two) wishes to alienate all other Valley fans. Why?

Of course, on the next page, a Loyola fan (Rambler63) mentions some Nielsen market numbers that do not correspond with http://www.tvb.org/media/file/TVB_Ma..._2013-2014.pdf by claiming that Des Moines is #73 and Wichita is #101 while Nielsen has Wichita-Hutchinson at #67 (and Des Moines at #72). Hopefully LUC won't be the next Evansville (on the court) even thought UE will probably wipe the floor with LUC this season.

What do I think of MVCFANS? I don't. And quite frankly, neither should you....

[jocoshock]

What is of equal or more importance than market size is the interest of the team inside of the market. Unfortunately what LUs attendance figures show us is that Chicago's interest in Loyola sports is:

1. Da Bears
2. Anyone playing the Packers
3. The Bulls
4. The Cubs
5. ND Football
6. The Blackhawks
7. The White Sox
...
23. The new Hunger Games movie
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58. My kids 3rd grade basketball game
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78. Loyola Marymount
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89. Wow I never knew there was a Loyola University Chicago
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99. Loyola Chicago
100. Watching paint dry.

Someone needs to point out to that Loyola poster that it doesn't matter the market size if you are only able to pull 0.016% of the market to a game.

Hell, given the 0.016% I might swap 99 and 100.

The only thing this proves is that if Loyola or DePaul (or both) beat the SHOX, no one in Chicago will care...