Yep you are probably right but seems penny wise dollar foolish to me. I've seen articles reporting the Pac 12 gets $500,000, WCC and Mountain West $300,000 to have their tourneys in Vegas. Maybe I'm wrong but I would guess Big West gets far less than either of those numbers. Is it worth $100,000(total guess) to play tourney games in a nearly empty arena, look terrible on tv, far from any campus?

There are a bunch of sad little gyms in the league, so I wouldn't rotate to every campus.

Bren Center is a nice 5,000 arena, it would look great on tv if packed. I haven't been there in 20 years but I remember it as being nice.
Irvine is very close to 3 Big West campuses and I'm guessing 7 schools are 2 hours or less away.
It's near the beach, Disneyland, airport, hotels.
Yes it's very far from Davis and Hawaii but guessing way more Davis and Hawaii fans would show up in Irvine than Henderson, NV.

Back from Vegas, we saw 7 games in the 3 and a half days there. Big West, Pac 12, WCC and Mountain West games. Overall it was a fun trip. As for the Ags- not the result we wanted but we did our part cheering them on from right behind the bench.

The Big West should consider moving the tourney back to So Cal. The spot in Henderson is a beautiful new arena but I'm not sure there were even 500 people in the building. Kind of a bummer environment to play or watch a game. I would move the tourney to the Bren Center in Irvine and give every team in the league 500 tickets and then release unsold tickets to the general public. Yes Irvine and the nearby school would have an advantage with more fans but I would imagine most players would prefer playing in front of 4 or 5 thousand fans than a nearly empty arena.

Wall to wall college basketball choices in Vegas right now. We fly in tomorrow, and will see St Mary's if they make the WCC finals Tuesday night. Early round Pac12 games Wednesday. Aggies on Thursday, then depending on the results- Aggies, Pac 12 or Mountain West games on Friday. Fly out Saturday. Jr and I want to see how many games we can squeeze in, the wife has other ideas- ha.

Go Ags, Crazy win! And me and the fam are going to Vegas baby. So happy we made it to a Thursday game. Wife is St Mary's grad, and if they win, we will be at the WCC final on Tuesday.

Yep, seems dumb on many levels to not play the final on Saturday.

But I haven't watched much of these playoffs... still mad that Davis didn't make it. We are better than most the teams in the playoffs. I'd bet only a hand full of teams would be over .500 with our schedule.

And yes DTD, the Vandal fans were great with us. While we were eating breakfast (in our Aggie gear) a couple of fans were very friendly and complimented the Aggies and their play, which was very cool.

No easy way to segue from the tragic story to mundane matters but yes BaseballAtDobbins, the hotel was great- although we weren't there long. We got up early and drove out through Pullman to check out Martin Stadium. Looks like a pretty cool stadium, junior wants to see a game there- maybe next year.

I enjoyed the Idaho band at the game, they have some of the best seats in the house and their sound dominates the Kibbie Dome.

A lot of driving this weekend but it was worth it to see a big Aggie win with junior. Great meeting you and Idaho Aggie too.

Long drive but junior and I made it

Thanks for the info, DTD and Idaho Aggie. We are going to be a game time decision (or game time -6 hours decision) if we go or not. Jr has asked multiple times a day if we can go and has changed to saying when we go- lol.

If I had planned earlier, we could have done a double header, ASU-Washington St for the 1st half in Pullman and then the Aggie game. Haven't been to Martin Stadium since they renovated it- would be cool to check it out also.

:up: thanks for the rec

Gracias hermano, great info

My son wants to make the 5+ hour drive to the game. I think its 50/50 whether we go or not, but I would still appreciate any info on attending- pre game things to do, parking, what is visitor section, places to check out around Moscow?

Fun day with junior- took the train to Davis, ate in downtown, played catch while walking thru campus, and great game watching the Ags dropping 3's and putting up a record 110 points. Wish there could have been a few more fans at the Pavillion. But I guess I'm part of the problem- only going to 1 or 2 games a year.

Strange seeing Gottfried and Harrick coaching at Northridge, and first time seeing Diane in person. Dude was impressive, wonder if he gets a shot in NBA. I happened to catch a pic of one of his many alley oops

Most USC fans and alumni wanted to remain one of the 3 FBS (with UCLA and Notre Dame) teams to have never played a FCS opponent. Looks like SC's new AD wants that also.

Hopefully we take that money and schedule a home game.

Big Sky site is working for me again, just in time for Aggie score

Pluto TV was garbage pausing every few seconds, the Big Sky site worked great for 10-15 minutes but now isn't working for me. Other games on the Big Sky site are still working.

found some interesting pics on twitter of the La Rue tailgate, wish I was there with a cold one right now
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