This is the basketball board, not the finance board. Sports fans want their team to win. Let the executives worry about the rest.
I'm sorry that you can't manage the relationship between the two and the significance to prior posts. Don't tell me what I can't say. Just ignore me. Can you handle that?
I honestly wasn’t aware of it. I don’t really follow Canadian basketball.
Agreed. I often wonder if we had gone to the ACC instead of Louisville, if it would have helped both our program and Pitt and Syracuse to have a solid northeast contingent with former strong rivalries. Ironically, us joining may have helped BC too.
Appreciate the honesty. Some folks act like that hurts.
Oh there’s no doubt that it was a good move financially for the program. Of course there’s also no doubt that it left them out on an island without any natural rivals. Syracuse thrived in the outstanding basketball conference at the old Big East was. It’s tough to feel bad for them now, given that they had a hand in killing it.
Don't disagree at all. Hard choices, but I understand them as well. Money is the straw that stirs the drink.
This. The Cuse plummet into irrelevance is much more about a delusional coach who is way past his prime and holding the school hostage for his own ego than it is about them being in the ACC. In a hypothetical world in which Boeheim stepped down and they had brought in a Nate Oats from Buffalo a handful of years ago, I have no doubt they would be a competitive team. They're now in a situation where they're not going to be able to pick an opportune time and instead will have to just pray that a) there is a good option available when Boeheim's last grandchild finishes up his senior year as their starting PG, and b) that there are no better jobs also looking at the same time. Going to be a long bumpy ride and my god am I here for it.
I'm confused. What decision did UCONN make? They never wanted to go to the ACC? They weren't annoyed that BC blocked them? Come on, folks...I get the bravado around backing your favorite sports team, but that's where I draw the line. And I am absolutely okay...if folks feel UCONN turned out ok in the end...for whatever reason. BUT...40 million dollars suggests some things did not turn out alright. I get the nostalgia, the rivalries, or whatever other intangibles that you can come up with, and the joy of "winning"...but, let's look at outcomes. You can suck in the ACC...and not go broke OR you can rejoice about the current or past BE...and face financial hardships. SU chose the money. Not mad at them...whether they suck or not.
And it is still true today! Sadly they might be better if UConn was in the ACC as all for the former BE traitors would indeed have a natural rival in UConn, as I believe UConn's presence would make them better. They have no true rivals in the ACC, just fodder for the southern schools.
I get the fact that you want to hijack this thread away from Syracuse’s current suckiness, but give it a rest. We get your point Syracuse sold itself for money. So do whores. The economic justification is the same in both cases. Cash in exchange for loss of self respect. It is what it is.
Nothing can help BCU
Euthanasia?
