[NU Sports] Two responses for the price of one

[Roy Lamberton]

Until Lacrosse becomes as popular in Chicago as Ice Hockey, we won’t have a championship product on the field, with large crowds.

 

NU students have demonstrated over the years, that many won’t come to ANY game, so a sport that depends on large student turnouts will always be lacking at NU. Our largest pockets of alumni, after Chicago, are a long way away to just pack up and drop into Evanston on a Thursday night for a wrestling or fencing match.

 

Lacrosse has the right idea, they play on Saturday, and they draw 1500 people which is amazing. 

 

Army-Navy-Hopkins and Maryland are playing a mixed doubleheader in Men’s Lacrosse at the Raven’s stadium this month. I’ll be very curious to see how many people show up.

 

rsl

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Roy S. Lamberton - Senior Associate & Unix Guru.

Computer Applications & Support Associates

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Commissioner Delaware American Legion Baseball

Retired Senior Chief Cryptologic Technician [R]

Northwestern University - Sp 1974 - 

Chi Phi: Pi74, KD68

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  You cannot Legislate Morality

  You cannot Litigate Peace

  You cannot Tax yourself to Prosperity

  Wealth transfer makes everyone poorer

It's all been tried, and failed before.

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From: johnadeg at comcast.net [mailto:johnadeg at comcast.net] 
Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 1:32 PM
To: Roy Lamberton
Cc: Dennis W. Brandt; nwu-sports at tssi.com
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Two responses for the price of one

 

For what ever it is worth, watching the college baseball world series a few years ago, the comment was made that the Mississippi State baseball team draws bigger crowds than the basketball team does. That tells me that the baseball team is a better product, market wise than the BB team; won't ever be able to say that about NU's teams.

Does anyone know whether NU still have a rifle team?  As I recall NROTC sponsored one although it was a letter sport.

John DeGroat
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From: "Roy Lamberton" <rstetson at capps-assoc.com>
To: "Dennis W. Brandt" <tbng at comcast.net>, nwu-sports at tssi.com
Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 12:34:14 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: RE: [NU Sports] Two responses for the price of one

Except for the 5 or 6 teams who always make the NCAA's - Maryland, Purdue,
and others get respectable crowds in for Women's roundball, I think some of
Maryland's women's games outdraw NU's men's games at times.

But just like its counterproductive to raise taxes during an economic
slowdown, it is counterproductive to raise ticket prices on a sport with low
attendance.

rsl 

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Roy S. Lamberton - Senior Associate & Unix Guru.
Computer Applications & Support Associates
-------------------- Also ----------------------
Publisher: Purple Reign (Scout.com/Fox Sports)
Commissioner Delaware American Legion Baseball
Retired Senior Chief Cryptologic Technician [R]
Northwestern University - Sp 1974 - 
Chi Phi: Pi74, KD68
==========  Go Cats -  Beat 'em All  ===========
A Few Basic Truths:
  You cannot Legislate Morality
  You cannot Litigate Peace
  You cannot Tax yourself to Prosperity
  Wealth transfer makes everyone poorer
It's all been tried, and failed before.
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> Price should follow demand.

If so, existence should follow demand, which means there would be very 
little women's college sports. 


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