2014-15 Schedule

Todd, I think the arena is getting a good chunk…..Then’Nova, then us.

Sorry. I meant revenue $$$, not tickets. I gotta think the house gets a cut of every ticket sold, plus the $5/ticket handling and $3/ticket service fee they charged me. I suppose these extra charges are to cover the expense they incur when I interact with their server on line. Then there was the $5/order “charge fee” (I guess for using a credit card (dah)) And the final indignation, a $2.50 “delivery cost” for the privilege of printing the tickets at home on my stationary. 4 tickets with $20 face value cost $ 119.50 total.

Yeah, I’m with ya. I’ve never been charged a fee for “print at home” before. My $30 ticket ended up closer to $60 with fees and parking pass. You’re welcome, ‘nova.
No doubt that the house gets a nice cut on every ticket, plus the BS fees, plus parking deal.

One quick note that has been mentioned earlier; another portion of ‘Nova’s motivation to do this is Darren Hilliard. Senior team captain, graduate of Bethlehem Liberty High school, huge local favorite in Bethlehem-Easton area, and one of the few really big time college basketball players to come out of the Lehigh Valley recently. Nice gesture to get him in front of local friends and media. Ironically I know folks at work from Easton who plan to attend but may have trouble getting tickets.

That’s a weird one. They aren’t even NCAA (or even NAIA) members. Instead they are members of something I have never heard of called the United States Collegiate Athletic Association that only has 84 members nationally. Lehigh must have REALLY struggled to find an opponent.

If Lehigh is going to schedule a game against a non-Division I team, I don’t know why they don’t schedule a game against a Lehigh Valley Division III team, especially Moravian or DeSales, periodically. As long as the Mountain Hawks aren’t way down in a given year or bring back Sal Mentesana as head coach, they shouldn’t have any trouble winning AND the game would be a little more interesting to Lehigh fans (as well as Moravian or DeSales fans who get to see their school play a Division I team).

Chip, I agree… And how about D2 ? Kutztown, ESU, Bloom? And 90, I’m with you on………him…….

I think Lehigh (and Patriot League teams in general) should avoid scheduling Division II teams for regular season games in general because they could viably lose those games if they play poorly. However, scheduling D2 teams for exhibition games would be a good idea. Many programs considerably more prominent than Lehigh do that. Heck, teams here in the DC area like Maryland and Georgetown have scheduled PSAC (PA State Athletic Conference – the conference with Kutztown, East Stroudsburg, West Chester, etc.) teams for preseason exhibition games.

As for the D3 teams, I’d prefer if Lehigh played DeSales, Moravian, or Muhlenberg most of the time for their annual D3 game. If those teams aren’t interested or available, then you go ask and bring in a team a little further away but still close, like a Delaware Valley, an Albright or Alvernia, or a Centenary (in Hackettstown) for a game.

Finally, with regard to Billy Taylor’s predecessor as Lehigh head coach…I try not to think about him, except to think how much better the Mountain Hawks have been under Taylor and Brett Reed.

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