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shabamon
4/25/2019 4:00 PM
It's tonight right? Busy day for Boals if so and he can make it. Slinging free coffee at Baker Center and hosting Javan White today.

If you go, I have a question for Boals and Solich to pass along - Why are player transfers so rampant each offseason in basketball but nowhere near as bad in football, especially when it's more likely in football to be near the bottom of the depth chart for multiple years? What does Boals think needs to change in order for transferring to get a little more under control?
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GoCats105
4/25/2019 4:57 PM
shabamon wrote:expand_more
It's tonight right? Busy day for Boals if so and he can make it. Slinging free coffee at Baker Center and hosting Javan White today.

If you go, I have a question for Boals and Solich to pass along - Why are player transfers so rampant each offseason in basketball but nowhere near as bad in football, especially when it's more likely in football to be near the bottom of the depth chart for multiple years? What does Boals think needs to change in order for transferring to get a little more under control?
My guess is that because you see more redshirts used in football. Players don't want to lose another year of eligibility to transfer. The grad transfer loophole kind of remedied that, but you don't see that used as much either.
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MonroeClassmate
4/25/2019 8:04 PM
shabamon wrote:expand_more
It's tonight right? Busy day for Boals if so and he can make it. Slinging free coffee at Baker Center and hosting Javan White today.

If you go, I have a question for Boals and Solich to pass along - Why are player transfers so rampant each offseason in basketball but nowhere near as bad in football, especially when it's more likely in football to be near the bottom of the depth chart for multiple years? What does Boals think needs to change in order for transferring to get a little more under control?
No Boals in Cleveland.

Only three questions asked of Solich and no other speaker opened it up to questions. I would have asked your question of JS but he did not open the mic.

Better turnout than prior years and nice to see more class of 2000+ types in the audience.
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Recovering Journalist
4/25/2019 10:25 PM
MonroeClassmate wrote:expand_more
Better turnout than prior years and nice to see more class of 2000+ types in the audience.
Agreed. Best crowd I've seen. There's still work to do. I wore an Ohio shirt to the clevelandfrowns.com draft party right afterward downtown. Two twenty-something Bobcats asked me if I went to OU, and I told them where I had just been. "Wish we had known!" was the reply.

I guess I am glad they wish they had known.

Anyway, fun event as usual.
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OU_Country
4/26/2019 9:36 AM
Recovering Journalist wrote:expand_more
Better turnout than prior years and nice to see more class of 2000+ types in the audience.
Agreed. Best crowd I've seen. There's still work to do. I wore an Ohio shirt to the clevelandfrowns.com draft party right afterward downtown. Two twenty-something Bobcats asked me if I went to OU, and I told them where I had just been. "Wish we had known!" was the reply.

I guess I am glad they wish they had known.

Anyway, fun event as usual.
It's an ongoing issue, in my opinion, with the Athletic Department as well as the University as whole. There needs to be a better way to capture the attention of new grads after they leave Athens. Part of it is that they have to want to, and some don't - heck I have old friends that live less than 90 miles away that haven't been to Athens in 12-15 years.

Probably a bigger part of it is that people aren't made aware of things going on because they aren't on emailing lists, or, they simply don't use email much anymore. These events probably would get a better turnout if they were pounded on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook almost daily for the 2-3 weeks leading up to them. And maybe they are and I'm missing that, but I don't think they are.
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IceCat76
4/26/2019 9:52 AM
OU_Country wrote:expand_more
Better turnout than prior years and nice to see more class of 2000+ types in the audience.
Agreed. Best crowd I've seen. There's still work to do. I wore an Ohio shirt to the clevelandfrowns.com draft party right afterward downtown. Two twenty-something Bobcats asked me if I went to OU, and I told them where I had just been. "Wish we had known!" was the reply.

I guess I am glad they wish they had known.

Anyway, fun event as usual.
It's an ongoing issue, in my opinion, with the Athletic Department as well as the University as whole. There needs to be a better way to capture the attention of new grads after they leave Athens. Part of it is that they have to want to, and some don't - heck I have old friends that live less than 90 miles away that haven't been to Athens in 12-15 years.

Probably a bigger part of it is that people aren't made aware of things going on because they aren't on emailing lists, or, they simply don't use email much anymore. These events probably would get a better turnout if they were pounded on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook almost daily for the 2-3 weeks leading up to them. And maybe they are and I'm missing that, but I don't think they are.
I suspect that with newer grads, still trying to get a solid financial footing ( new jobs, student loans, new abodes, etc.), see something from OU, assume its a fundraising pitch and don't read or even open mail or email.
Not letting the AD or University off the hook but more of a compounding effect.
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Ted Thompson
4/26/2019 10:26 AM

 

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OU_Country
4/26/2019 10:47 AM
IceCat76 wrote:expand_more
Better turnout than prior years and nice to see more class of 2000+ types in the audience.
Agreed. Best crowd I've seen. There's still work to do. I wore an Ohio shirt to the clevelandfrowns.com draft party right afterward downtown. Two twenty-something Bobcats asked me if I went to OU, and I told them where I had just been. "Wish we had known!" was the reply.

I guess I am glad they wish they had known.

Anyway, fun event as usual.
It's an ongoing issue, in my opinion, with the Athletic Department as well as the University as whole. There needs to be a better way to capture the attention of new grads after they leave Athens. Part of it is that they have to want to, and some don't - heck I have old friends that live less than 90 miles away that haven't been to Athens in 12-15 years.

Probably a bigger part of it is that people aren't made aware of things going on because they aren't on emailing lists, or, they simply don't use email much anymore. These events probably would get a better turnout if they were pounded on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook almost daily for the 2-3 weeks leading up to them. And maybe they are and I'm missing that, but I don't think they are.
I suspect that with newer grads, still trying to get a solid financial footing ( new jobs, student loans, new abodes, etc.), see something from OU, assume its a fundraising pitch and don't read or even open mail or email.
Not letting the AD or University off the hook but more of a compounding effect.
That's a fair point, and probably a definite obstacle to overcome.
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Pete Chouteau
4/26/2019 4:11 PM
I can't speak for Instagram, but the caravan HAS been pounded on Facebook and Twitter.

If they didn't know, they've chosen a path of designed ignorance and I question their honesty when they say they wish they had known.

There are ways to know things and they've chosen not to use them.
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shabamon
4/26/2019 4:16 PM
One question might be how well does athletics communicate with the Cleveland alumni chapter, and how well did that chapter communicate with its members.
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Brian Smith (No, not that one)
4/26/2019 4:25 PM
IceCat76 wrote:expand_more
I suspect that with newer grads, still trying to get a solid financial footing ( new jobs, student loans, new abodes, etc.), see something from OU, assume its a fundraising pitch and don't read or even open mail or email.
Not letting the AD or University off the hook but more of a compounding effect.
My wife and I have a tradition of looking at each other and cackling as one of us hurls it unopened into a wastebasket whenever her law school sends her a piece of mail.
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Obc2
4/26/2019 6:36 PM
if you are following the Ohio accounts on Twitter they did a good job at notifying us of the Caravans. I also got 2+ emails.

gotta meet the program halfway, I'd say.
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Buck.Cat
4/27/2019 12:55 PM
Pete Chouteau wrote:expand_more
I can't speak for Instagram, but the caravan HAS been pounded on Facebook and Twitter.

If they didn't know, they've chosen a path of designed ignorance and I question their honesty when they say they wish they had known.

There are ways to know things and they've chosen not to use them.
This is a blanket statement if I have ever seen one. People have lives and are obviously not as dialed into the university athletic programs as people on this board are. I can easily see how they were not aware of this event along with the other ones across the state.
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brucecuth
4/27/2019 5:11 PM
Obc2 wrote:expand_more
if you are following the Ohio accounts on Twitter they did a good job at notifying us of the Caravans. I also got 2+ emails.

gotta meet the program halfway, I'd say.
yes, organizers have done a better job of outreach.
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