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Subject: Hey question mark fella, its crap and you know it.


Author:
Yankee
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Date Posted: 21:01:08 02/23/09 Mon
In reply to: Yankee 's message, "Marist season ticket holders, question (MAAC tourney related)" on 17:42:55 02/23/09 Mon

Their would be more outrage if the rest of the dang league hadn't become resigned to the fate under this commissioner who is a complete shill for one team. He wants a Gonzaga and he will go out of his way to get one. I do not blame Siena fans one bit for this. I blame either Marist for not offering the tickets or the MAAC for giving season ticket holders their same tickets without a shot for other fans teams who wanted all session passes.

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[> [> Subject: Hey Yankee, maybe ????? is the Commish.


Author:
Oldfox
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Date Posted: 21:17:11 02/23/09 Mon

but it couldn't be since he claims not to be a Siena Fan. The post actually further supports my argument that the league is in bed with Siena, again it makes perfect sense to do so, when he pines for the day that Siena fans could pre-order their seats 6 months before any other fan had a chance. I'd be pissed too if someone told me, "it was the conference tournament and not your teams 10th league home game".
[> [> Subject: IS IT REALLY CRAP, OR ARE YOU JUST CLUELESS????


Author:
????
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Date Posted: 22:48:31 02/23/09 Mon

i would doubt that ensor only wants a gonzaga. i also doubt that siena could become a gonzaga. they can be one of the best mid-majors on a consistent basis but gonzaga is on another level that will never be reached by siena or any other maac school. as they currently stand, the maac schools are just too small to invest the funds needed to become gonzaga. in siena's case, the school is less than half the size of gonzaga and has been established for half as many years. gonzaga's financial support can never be matched by siena, so there is no way they can consistently compete with them. there is a reason why st. peters is bad almost every year, its their budget!!!

what Ensor wants is obvious.

he wants to make money or at the very least, not lose money (like the tournament does every year it is not in albany). he wants people (not just siena fans) to purchase all session passes. if enough siena fans do this, it doesn't matter if siena wins it all or loses saturday, so that is why he pushes all-sessions to siena fans. if the tickets are purchased, the maac makes money and that means the most to ensor (his performance is judged in large part by the finances of the league, which includes monies distributed to member schools by conferernce). however, i would suspect that in most seasons, ensor and the rest of the maac staffers are rooting for the best team because that is how they can make more money. the ncaa pays the league each year for the amount of ncaa games they have had over the past 5 years. if you send one team each year for 5 years and they lose in the first round each year, the maac receives 5 "units". since siena won last year, the maac will receive 2 "units" for 2007-2008 season alone, hence increasing their "take" by at least 20% per year for the next 4 seasons. therefore, if the maac sends their best team to the ncaa, the maac has their best chance of getting a win and adding directly to their (and member schools)pocketbooks. since the money that comes into the maac from the ncaa tournament is shared equally among its members, you and i are also rooting for the best team to win the maac championship (if our team doesn't). in addition to the extra $$$, the league and school get millions of dollars worth of free publicity, etc. this year, things are a little different. with niagara showing that it is a viable contenter and potential first round upset possibility, i would bet anything that ensor is hoping siena wins out and loses to niagara in the maac championship. this would give the league the best chance at getting two teams into the ncaa tournament (i admit a mild longshot for siena at-large). if maac gets two teams into to tournament they get two "units" automatically for 2008-2009 season. if they both won, that would give them four "units", and so on. so it is easy to see how the maac can benefit a lot more by siena losing in championship then winning. since the odds of siena or niagara winning a game against a top-25 team on a neutral court are both low, the best situation for the maac is to get the extra "unit" through having two teams in dance.

so, in summary, if you think ensor wants siena to win, you better think again. the only thing ensor wants is the $100+ for each seat in the arena and he doesn't care who buys them. i can't see how you or anyone else expect him to jeopardize the financial take of the tournament by holding the best seats (that can be easily sold to public)for people that historically don't show up. they are already losing money by no longer letting season ticket holders purchase their season location as i know a lot of people purchase session by session or wait for potential game monday to change in policy.


anyways, hopefully this can clear up some of the confusion around the situation and not lead to more spin and unfounded complaining...
[> [> [> Subject: wheres exclamation mark, question mark is very full of himself


Author:
Yankee
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Date Posted: 23:36:59 02/23/09 Mon

The MAAC is not Siena and 9 other teams. In fact, historically Marist dominates in the athletics. Please refer to President cup trophies. Siena has a nice mens basketball program. But,heck, Marist even has gotten farther than Siena in basketball. Please refer to the womens trip to the sweet sixteen. I know some neanderthals in Loudonville think womens basketball doesn't count, because "its not fair they take away from our men, waaah". Ensor is a complete fraud. He has allowed the TUC to demand Siena season ticket holders get all the good all session passes because they "rescued" this tourney I would bet. He is kissing their behinds because they took over when Rider and jersey screwed up. Very simple. You don't make the other teams BUY the tickets first. You allow them to offer tickets to fans of other teams and if they don't sell any, then TUC sells to whoever they want. That is not what happened. Unfortunately in Ensors quest to have a Gonzaga on the mens side, he basically is Sienas puppy on a leash. Its disgusting and he needs to get out. He is now setting it up so Siena and the TUC gets the MAAC tourney from 2012-2014 as well. He knows that by making it a 3 year committment that most venues can't do that. He is a shill for one team and its pure crap.
[> [> [> [> Subject: Re: wheres exclamation mark, question mark is very full of himself


Author:
????
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Date Posted: 17:16:15 02/24/09 Tue

wow!!! you have very poor comprehension skills. anyways, good luck on your future whining. since facts are not understood here, it is a waste of time.
[> [> [> [> [> Subject: you smell question mark, bye


Author:
Yankee
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Date Posted: 18:44:18 02/24/09 Tue

[> [> [> [> [> [> Subject: Re: you smell question mark, bye


Author:
????
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Date Posted: 11:10:20 02/26/09 Thu

facts and reason are a b*tch aren't they oldman????
[> [> [> [> [> [> [> Subject: You talking to me?


Author:
Oldfox
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Date Posted: 20:45:35 02/26/09 Thu


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