Not just you but when people take the time to post an short, snotty remark like that, it should be incumbant on them to explain why. Otherwise, it's just a personal attack.
Nah, show your work if you want to play the message board game fairly. Otherwise, it's just trolling.
Are you really hyping up the performances from these schools? Cuse basketball sucks now and the football team just got waxed by Notre Dame. Rutgers hasn't won a home Big 10 football game in 5 years. Pitt football had one really good football season and their basketball program is putrid. BC is BC.
The rise of perennial hoops doormat Rutgers is kind of a tell. I think he laid out his thesis pretty well off the top of his head. We have been utterly dreadful and when they canned Diaco we had to bring in Edsall on the super cheap to further sink the program. Doesn't take a genius to conclude that more money allows you to cover up mistakes. UConn resorted to trying to not pay Ollie his contractual buyout due to being broke. People saying the money hasn't given those programs an advantage are the ones trolling.
Of course money matters but UConn football sucked because they made horrific hires and they will be back to bowling because they made a great hire. Rutgers hoops sucked because they hired a guy who made their players run suicides naked, they hired a coach who beat up his players, and they didn't vet their hire. They are now decent because they finally hired a pretty good coach.
His point is those schools sports programs largely suck, I agree with that.
You keep bringing up football in a discussion that's not about football. Money obviously helps, but the point is that those schools are not blowing us away in basketball and Olympic sports like everyone keeps saying would happen
According to metrics, the Big East has not fallen off at all in basketball since the split.
We've heard this forever. It is still the most popular sport enjoy watching.
Watching-yes. Playing-not exacly.
I think football is doing a much better job of reducing head injuries and many players wear guardian caps (padding) in practice. Although football participation is in a slow decline, there are many factors involved. Sure, some parents don't want their kids to play football, but the fall of the 3 sport athlete is having an even bigger impact as many kids focus on one sport. I see top youth baseball, basketball, and hockey players stop playing football to play fall ball or train. Demographics play a role as well as towns with declining student populations will probably have declining sports participation.
UConn had more than enough money to pay Ollie. After the decision they were given, like what? Maybe 72 hours to pony up $11 million. The decision not to pay Kevin Ollie was based on the belief that he reached his contract and this was an entitled to be paid. I don’t think anyone for saw that the arbiter would, essentially, tear up the provision in Kevin‘s contract that said you are fired without compensation if you breach NCAA rules. Once that happened, the odds were against the university prevailing.
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