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Who re-hired him? He needs to be gone too. When an opposing coach is ridiculing your tactics as amateurish after a big game, that should have been the signal to end this once and for all and forever. Instead they doubled down. I've never seen a coach like van Gaal ridicule the opposing coach...

The official ouster, yes. The committee that recommended their ouster delivered its verdict an entire year before that. UM President at the time chaired that committee, and UWisconsin was 2nd chair. The entire B1G knew that Nebraska was out of the AAU before they joined.

You're underestimating the # of alum from Pac-12 schools that worked in the Bay Area/Silicon Valley.

His theories about the B1G and the AAU couldn't be more wrong. Nebraska was added after Michigan and Wisconsin ousted them from the AAU in committee.

I wonder if the reverse is true. If FSU and Clemson left the ACC, and at the same time the B12 offered UConn a spot, and UConn turned it down for the post-departure ACC, would that weaken the B12?

Andre is 30 yrs old. If he plays until he's 37 with seasons exactly like last year's 17 minutes per game, rebounding at the same rate, he'll be the 4th leading rebounder of all time ahead of Moses Malone, Elvin Hayes, Karl Malone and Tim Duncan.

As I wrote in the posts above, all this is irrelevant to the discussion. I never said UConn had a global brand in the 1980s. So I don't know why people are even bringing this up. It has nothing to do with what I said. I was talking about UConn's market for college athletics. UConn was always a...

It is EVERY school. This can't be news to you. And--global brand, please. They gamed the US News metrics to fool easily gullible students and parents. There are a lot of schools in Boston. That can't be news to you either. Boston U. is now at 10% admission. They aren't big in sports either.

What are we even talking about anymore? This is not relevant to the discussion. No one said UConn was a national brand back then. BUT--this graph doesn't really prove much either as non big sports schools have had similar application rises. Northeastern had 10,000 applicants in 1990 and has...

There were only 21 pro hockey teams back then. Those teams didn't share their markets. There are about 80 top teams in college basketball (non Mid Majors). UConn's market is one of the biggest because it's the only school in that market. Look around the college world and you won't see many...

This makes no sense to me but whatever. Hard to know what people are even talking about these days when they're so imprecise. Those words sound like they mean UConn's market, which is Connecticut, and of course that's not small at all. It's quite big actually.

Small market program? As opposed to who? What?

He seems to think "crust" refers only to the ends. He doesn't understand that ALL the bread of the pizza is the crust.

Pittsburgh pizza sounds so much like Buffalo pizza.

You may want to leave the state and relocate to a place like Ohio.

It's really all about the preference of each person. My big thing is the taste of the crust. Everything else follows. I love Zuppardi's for the sausage and the fresh clam pizza, but their crust is not at the same very high standards of the others. Pepe's was my favorite growing up but both the...

But the guy who made pizza with them for 30+ years is still there, Rey. He's their pizza guru for decades now. He can't work 7 days a week though. I'd call him on his secret phone and ask which day he's working.

Jaylin spellers always get a pass. If your parents refused to name you something other than Jayden, Jaylen, Jaden, Jaylin, Jaydin, Jalin, Jalen... Well, what can you do?

Jordan Hawkins had 14 minutes a game freshman year, and that team was not nearly as deep. That being said, Castle got 27. 20 minutes is in between. One of the 4 needs to step up and become a prime scorer, so we'll see.

It's that low because everyone is accounting for things differently. It's an apples to oranges comparison that means nothing.

With 3 2/3s on the floor at all times: Karaban, Stewart, Ball, Mahaney, McNeeley and Ross share 120 minutes. Karaban gets 30, Stewart 20, Mahaney 20, Ball 20, McNeeley 20. That leaves 10 for Ross or all of them fighting for the remaining 10. Imagine this UConn problem, who wins this game...

At the end of the day, these naming rights and images are minimal at best. The money is all coming from boosters to get kids to play at their schools now. Let's not pretend these are advertisers dying to get Alex Oriakhi and Roscoe Smith to hock their product, unless of course the product was...

Agree with what you wrote about Treehouse. This is why we like Bright the best of them. We're not real big on IPAs normally, but there great. Ever try Singlecut pilsners? They have some extra things going on in them.

I like all this but... then I read the tweets of the other schools that offered him and those tweets say, "Extremely blessed..." In a world where you receive blessings for ordering a chicken sandwich at Chik Fila, it's plain that hyperbole aint what it used to be.

They are only committed though for the next 10 years. Or who knows, maybe even less if they decide they can pick up the tab the last couple of years if it makes more sense to them financially.

I can't figure out why they weren't called on that threat. They would've been the ones who would be on the hook for all that money, not the schools left behind.

First time at Treehouse Brewing yesterday. We're not a family that likes IPAs (normally I stick to Belgians from Ommegang and Unibroue, local pilsners and sours, etc.) but we loved the Treehouse cans we brought back. I went with all the recommended really (King Julius, Very Hazy and Hazy...

For the next 10 years only.

But... Knight Commission may be powerless, but they do have an influence on any congressional proceedings into college athletics. If this ever gets to that level, and it may because the football/P4 schools are looking for laws that will exempt athletes from being considered employees, then the...

What a colossal ripoff. This deserves its own thread in the bball forum

It's still there at the bottom of the page. No one replied to it for 2 days

Got caught in one in Cancun, only we didn't realize we were in one until we turned around thinking we were close to shore, but we were far out (200 feet) within seconds. We swam sideways for a bit, not much, maybe 30-50 feet, then back to shore.

You're not looking at it under the right lens. The program became immediately viable faster than any program that jumped to D1. It produced a lot of NFL players over that decade. While it was in a P5 league, it won more than it lost. The bottom dropped out after the league broke up and a...

The state can decide how much it wants to fund athletics. If it is explicitly telling UConn that this money is being given to the school for the athletics shortfall, that's more than fine. I'm only saying that if, at the same time, the state is falling behind on funding UConn, then whatever...