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Thread: How Creighton made it to the big time

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    great find and thanks for sharing. i am extremely excited to have them as part of the conference. tomorrow...let the games begin

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    Me too. Their 17,000 plus average per game attendnance is really the smoking gun on the passion Creighton fans have for their team.

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    No offense to our guys from Omaha, but there is nothing else there. Good sized city with no pro sports: NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL - nothing. They are into two things: Creighton basketball and Nebraska football.

    Also a good part of why the College World Series is so huge there - there is nothing else to do sports-wise.
    "When March Madness spills into April.... that's the gravy!" - Homer Simpson

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jim Ganzer, "IWB" View Post
    No offense to our guys from Omaha, but there is nothing else there. Good sized city with no pro sports: NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL - nothing. They are into two things: Creighton basketball and Nebraska football.

    Also a good part of why the College World Series is so huge there - there is nothing else to do sports-wise.
    That's good for the BE as there will be a lot of interest in the BE. Hope they travel well for the BET. In the meantime, paraphrasing an old Cleveland joke: 1st place prize in a contest is a week in Omaha, 2nd place prize is 2 weeks in Omaha and 3rd place prize is 3 weeks in Omaha. Seriously, though, CU should be a good fit for BE BB.

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    Interesting how Fr. P is referenced often in this piece. Possibly more than the total # of times he's been referenced in the MJS since he arrived? LOL

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    Since moving to Eugene, Oregon I've paid more attention to Dana Altman, the former Creighton head coach and the current coach of the Oregon Ducks. He's a keeper and was highly underrated nationally during his years at Creighton and K State. He should be given major credit for getting the ball rolling in Omaha. I wonder if the Creighton program will maintain after the Jays lose Greg McDermott's son?

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    For a great background piece on Creighton's expansion into big-time basketball at a big-time arena (which was a battle and risk for AD Rasmussen), see the Omaha World Herald, Sunday January 20, 2013, Tom Shatel, "Decade of Prosperity at CU came grudgingly" (Rasmussen staked job on Jays move away from Civic [arena]). I cannot get the Omaha.com website to go into the archives back far enough for this January article. Maybe a more savvy poster can find it. It's very worth reading.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jim Ganzer, "IWB" View Post
    No offense to our guys from Omaha, but there is nothing else there. Good sized city with no pro sports: NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL - nothing. They are into two things: Creighton basketball and Nebraska football.

    Also a good part of why the College World Series is so huge there - there is nothing else to do sports-wise.

    Nebraska-Omaha hockey also does pretty solid attendance wise. Last year number 4 behind North Dakota, Minnesota and Wisconsin.

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    Yes Sultan, because they don't have anything else.

    beerhere6 - I wonder, had Lannon not been in Milwaukee when this all came down, would Pilarz be mentioned as often? Also, had his mother(?) not gotten ill causing him to want to get closer to home, I do believe Lannon would be the MU president and not Pilarz.
    "When March Madness spills into April.... that's the gravy!" - Homer Simpson

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