Wisconsin-Milwaukee sinking to new lows...

UW-M has decided to stop playing their home games in the nice, big downtown arena - since their team hasn't drawn well and they can't come anywhere close to filling it. so they are moving all their home games back to their tiny, antiquated on-campus arena, the Klotsche Center. This facility on-campus holds only 3200 even when packed to the gills - although there are people who doubt they'll even fill that! A lot of season ticket holders are not happy with this scaling back.. Here's a Daily Kos article that's really a gas - it's probably satire but Kos wants everyone to take their entries as accurate and reliable so it's odd that this is on a site that does not typically do satire. Here's a few things they say...... "An embarrassed University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Athletic Director Andy Geiger announced the men’s basketball program will stumble back to the Klotsche Center, the school’s on-campus gymnasium, effective immediately. “I am not going to spin this,” Geiger told the media after the June 26 announcement. “We are not big-time. As we watch attendance and accompanying revenue continue to wane, we have no business in an arena with a capacity over 10,000. Do you know how cavernous the MECCA looks with a thousand people?” “We had to get a damn waiver from the Horizon League to play games on our practice court,” current Head Coach Rob Jeter scoffed... Geiger later admitted the team hopes to reunite with Pearl, but has had trouble arranging official negotiations with the out-of-work coach. “I actually visited his house in Knoxville last week,” Geiger said. “His teenage daughter Leah answered the door and she wasn’t very helpful. Said she wasn’t sure where he was. Leah had a black eye and, with lips quivering, she mumbled something about Daddy drinking again.” But University Chancellor Michael Lovell remains optimistic about Coach Pearl, and the basketball program. Lovell believes that so long as they can convince Pearl to “come home to Milwaukee,” the Panthers future is bright. "Give [Pearl] plenty of money, and license to break every rule he needs to, in order to return us to the Sweet Sixteen," Lovell said. "Then we give local Miller Brewing Company a call, build a world-class, $100 million Miller Arena on campus. Next stop, Big Ten [Conference]." http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/11/1108656/-Panthers-Slinking-Home ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------so how is this relevant to Central Illinois?? First - BU's attendance is shrinking tremendously - are we next?? Second - UWM mirrors BU - no FB - and owns an on-campus arena which although small would save $$ and that seems to interest some. Don't say you weren't warned.............