The Bobcat Nation

Have any of you Bobcat fans out there looked at the basketball schedule close enough to notice that the Bobcat/Grizzly game is scheduled for a Sunday afternoon of all times?!! (February 13th) I am interested to know WHY the MSU athletic department could not work out a better day... When all other conference games are scheduled on Thursday/Saturday, why would one of the biggest conference games be scheduled on a Sunday??? This game has traditionally been the only one that fills the seats to the rafters. In the spirit of this long standing rivalry, you actually have fired up STANDING fans in the fieldhouse!!!! So, why would it be scheduled at a time when they will surely draw fewer fans, and fans who are not as fired up as would be during a game scheduled at night! How discouraging that the players will not be able to experience playing with a houseful of rowdy fans! One excuse may be that the conference schedules all the games. If this is the case, perhaps the MSU athletic department should seriously question this scheduling mess-up! Another explanation could be that the Lady Cats/ Lady Griz game is scheduled for Saturday night. What an opportunity for a great double-header!! What is scheduled for Friday night? This group of young men have excellent potential. What a way to support them but to fill up the fieldhouse! It is just too bad that the athletic department seemingly is not doing all they can to promote this rivalry, fill up the seats, and give these players the support they deserve!

Its on Sunday because the M.S.U. Indoor Track and Field Meet is in the Fieldhouse on Friday February 11th.

Well, that surely is going to cost MSU and the community some $$$. Because the game is a matinee, win or lose, out-of-town fans will have plenty of driving time before and after the game. I suppose some fans may come for the women's game and spend the night, but surely not to the extent an evening men's game would draw them in. How do they schedule these games, and the track meets for that matter?

I've said it before, but it seems exceedingly dumb to not switch the two games around. Play the mens game on Saturday night and the womens game on Sunday afternoon. I also really like the idea of a doubleheader...that would be a lot of fun!

In this day and age both men's and women's games get to headline their own night/day so a double header is out. A separate women's game and a separate men's game will probably generate more revenue than combining the two in a double header. I think the idea of having both the men's and women's Cat-griz games at the same location on the same weekend is a good idea as some fans will come to town and make a weekend of it.

I think a double-header would be a good idea. I have seen UNLV do it on a few occasions. Get people into the areana to buy stuff. We know the men will pack the house and the women will get a good showing as well.

I agree that a Sunday Matinee will be very tough to fill up the stands and I understand that we need to treat the 2 programs equally well but whoever scheduled the track meet during the same weekend needs to take a closer look at what will draw the $$$$$ in.......perhaps the doubleheader with a few more $$$$ per ticket price in the future because this is already a done deal.

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I'll give you a hint as to who to blame:

Doug Fullerton.

I utterly despise this man. His incompetence is truly impressive.

Since we cannot change the weekend, my family will be in bozo to see the girls, the track team and then the men on Sunday. Hopefully it will be a great weekend to be there!!!

This will definitely be a great weekend for MSU athletics; I think I'll have my other half and the kids meet in in Helena on Wednesday, hope for a Chinook so the fishing won't be too cold, do some shopping for local ales for me, more MSU gear for the kids, whatever my wife decides to waste her money on, try to get some autographs from our great female track athletes for my daughter, some of our great distance runners for my son (even though he's starting to look like my wife's side of the family and may become a lineman and weight event individual), go to a track meet, women's ball game, and men's game, then wander back to work. Maybe I could spend some time at Bridger Bowl with the kids and get back to work about Tuesday? Oh yeah, I can get my wife and kids fired up about a week in Bozo with all things Blue and Gold on "tap" for this weekend.

...plus my birthday's the following weekend, so I might have to make it a week and a half because there's all those old places in Belgrade, Manhattan, Greasy Spoon, Willow Creek, Butte...that need revisisted.

BozoneCat wrote:I'll give you a hint as to who to blame:

Doug Fullerton.

I utterly despise this man. His incompetence is truly impressive.

The University of Montana isn't exactly happy with having these games over their winter break either.

What this tells me is that the BSC doesn't care about it's only real rival schools. Not the sort of treatment the two best supported programs in the conference deserve.

theblackgecko wrote: The University of Montana isn't exactly happy with having these games over their winter break either.

What this tells me is that the BSC doesn't care about it's only real rival schools. Not the sort of treatment the two best supported programs in the conference deserve.

For a few years the Griz game at Bozeman was over winter break as well. It is a bummer, but the BSC schedule rotates so that each year the games get bumped up a week earlier and the earliest game becomes the last game(I think, maybe it moves the other way). Anyway, that is how I have been told it works. So both schools have ended up having the game during break. A bonus for the UM is that they have students there for the J-term!

rtb wrote: For a few years the Griz game at Bozeman was over winter break as well. It is a bummer, but the BSC schedule rotates so that each year the games get bumped up a week earlier and the earliest game becomes the last game(I think, maybe it moves the other way). Anyway, that is how I have been told it works. So both schools have ended up having the game during break. A bonus for the UM is that they have students there for the J-term!

The schedule rotates? I could've sworn we've opened conference play against Weber for at least the last 10 years in a row! Maybe this is a relatively new thing...I guess it is, as I now remember we started with a road sweep of EWU/PSU in the '01 season. Too bad they can't set it up so the Cat/Griz games come at the end of each half of the conference schedule. It's a shame to play one of them when the students aren't back at school yet.

rtb wrote:

theblackgecko wrote: The University of Montana isn't exactly happy with having these games over their winter break either.

What this tells me is that the BSC doesn't care about it's only real rival schools. Not the sort of treatment the two best supported programs in the conference deserve.

For a few years the Griz game at Bozeman was over winter break as well. It is a bummer, but the BSC schedule rotates so that each year the games get bumped up a week earlier and the earliest game becomes the last game(I think, maybe it moves the other way). Anyway, that is how I have been told it works. So both schools have ended up having the game during break. A bonus for the UM is that they have students there for the J-term!

They are lucky to have the students there for their intersession. I hear most of the students are athletes who otherwise would be ineligible unless they brought up their grade points.