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Illineck, welcome to the board. I think you might win the award for best first post (or any post for that matter)
I had intended to put together a similar post on your topics of basketball and facilities and had been organizing my thoughts, but then it just seemed like too much work and too depressing to talk about.
Thank you for giving a voice to what, probablly all of us have been thinking.
Look forward to read post #2.
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IlliNeck: Excellent post. I have always thought WIU was too small minded for a D-1 school, there is so much more they could do and your list is an excellent start. Our fearless AD should read this, actually I would vote for you as our AD. Thinking out of the box would bring progress and progress leads to Championships. Seeing our Football Team ranked #1 in the country was the best feeling I ever had as a Neck fan and I want that back. I also want those days of hosting Playoff games back.
Commit to Excellence!!!!!!!
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Thanks for the post Illineck. Point number six really hits home for me (well they all do really). We all have our pet peves with the university right now, but I think that its not just one thing or another, its everything that paints WIU in a very negative light. I remember going to ISU Blue vs WIU two and a half years ago in Indiana, and trying to find the game on the way in. I finally found it on their college radio station, with some very amateurish broadcaster (yeah just one guy) that I was able to pick up two miles from the stadium. I thought to myself "Wow, this is terrible, it really shows that the univeristy doesn't give a crap about their team." And guess what happens two years later to us. It's these little things that add up.
Whether it be no flag on the flagpole, the coaching debacle, the radio broadcasts, or my personal favorite annoyance: "First Banker's Trust" first downs. Oh, and how could I forget, the performance on the field? They all work together to make WIU sound cheesy, unorganized and unprofessional. I know this is going to sound angry, but when people tune in to 88.3 and hear those two unprofessional kids broadcasting the game AND taking shots at the team, it can't give people a good impression of the university.
I tried to make this all relate to point six, but I don't know if that came across right, just kinda frustrated I guess 
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Football had some of the biggest crowds ever from 1997-2003 when the team was winning the Gateway and making playoff appearances.
Basketball had crowds of 5,000 plus in the Coach Morgenthayer days of the late 70's to early 90's. Western last won the Conference in 1983.
Crowds of 3,000 plus were still common in the early Kerwin years of the mid 90's when the team was competitive and fighting with Valpo for 1st place.
The crowds will be there when the team is successful. History has shown that.
The crowds in both football and basketball started to fall off when both teams started a string of losing seasons.
Hopefully both sports can get that turned around. Western Hall can be a rocking spot when it is full.
Let's Go WESTERN!!
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