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Message: [QUOTE="Towney007, post: 3194109, member: 5832"] Well in the end, it's a perfect storm scenario that the university didn't seem ready to handle or were prepared for. Football hurt hoops. Hoops hurt football. Hoops couldn't stay relevant/good enough for long enough to buy football time to get better and get on solid footing. Football's existence and pulling us into the American basically made it so that every mistake hoops made hurt 15 times as much. When the bottom fell out on both, there just wasn't enough draw to the conference to sustain fan attendance and then before you know it - you're staring at a crisis. And the administration really just didn't have an answer for 2-3 years. We're spoiled up here. Building programs and (for the most part) sustaining them has been easy for us. Now - not as much. We didn't know how to take a shot. But I think we do now. Live and learn - we survived - so now onwards and upwards for everyone. [/QUOTE]