albanycuse
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We will win again.
One day
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TinyManInside
Our only goal will be the western shores.
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Only school in that list with a single Natty.
orangenauburn
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Need a UConn like run to get back where we belong
kingtidge
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SU fans not distracted by team playing in March Madness: allows LASER FOCUS on NIL news/speculation.
SU fans not distracted by team playing in March Madness: allows LASER FOCUS on NIL news/speculation.
albanycuse
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Doesn’t make sense that the portal is open during tournament time, just like in football. Its a distraction and planned because they knew the dates beforehand.
That"s "beloved Red Sox" to you.
kingtidge
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Not in NY...
BillSU
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I have always been a fan of the Yankees and Brooklyn now LA Dodgers. They're both pretty good teams with great records. Used to like to watch them play in the WS like last year. The Dodgers aren't in NY and I don't give a hoot whether you like it or not kingtidge.
DomeHolmes
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We are not alone.
I was thinking the other day about the sweet 16. There is a grand total of one team from the ACC and Big East COMBINED! in the sweet 16.
Since the formation of the Big East, the ACC and the Big East have more than half of the national championships!!! More Nattys than 28 conferences combined! And today we could only put one team in the sweet 16!!! (Without looking, I would think four or five would be the norm). Lots of peer schools, some with similar pedigree, are in the same boat.
I have a friend from Villanova and several from Seton Hall and I can tell you they are just as frustrated/depressed with the current landscape as we are.
I also looked at just the private schools. There are two in the sweet 16, even though 1/3 of the NCAA is private schools. The two that made it are Duke, and BYU (who just spent $8 million on just one player).
It’s also very rare air for a private school to win a championship to begin with. In what I would call the modern era since UTEP won their’s, it’s been Duke, Georgetown, Syracuse, Villanova, Marquette and Baylor. That’s it in 60 years.. which shows to begin with, private schools have an uphill battle with public schools (or else they would have roughly 1/3 of the championships). But it’s about 20%. (Uphill but not insurmountable)
I looked back at the last 10 years and power 4 public schools made up about 9 1/2 teams of the sweet 16 over the last 10 years and private schools and mid majors made up about 6 1/2. This year not one mid major made the sweet 16. (And again, the 2 BEST FUNDED privates made it).
I won’t go into all the reasons why, I did it in another post. Many agreed and some didn’t and I don’t want to flame or argue again.
suffice it to say that there’s a lot more than just hiring a better coach (which will help) involved in competing with the well funded state schools in this environment.
We are not alone.
I was thinking the other day about the sweet 16. There is a grand total of one team from the ACC and Big East COMBINED! in the sweet 16.
Since the formation of the Big East, the ACC and the Big East have more than half of the national championships!!! More Nattys than 28 conferences combined! And today we could only put one team in the sweet 16!!! (Without looking, I would think four or five would be the norm). Lots of peer schools, some with similar pedigree, are in the same boat.
I have a friend from Villanova and several from Seton Hall and I can tell you they are just as frustrated/depressed with the current landscape as we are.
I also looked at just the private schools. There are two in the sweet 16, even though 1/3 of the NCAA is private schools. The two that made it are Duke, and BYU (who just spent $8 million on just one player).
It’s also very rare air for a private school to win a championship to begin with. In what I would call the modern era since UTEP won their’s, it’s been Duke, Georgetown, Syracuse, Villanova, Marquette and Baylor. That’s it in 60 years.. which shows to begin with, private schools have an uphill battle with public schools (or else they would have roughly 1/3 of the championships). But it’s about 20%. (Uphill but not insurmountable)
I looked back at the last 10 years and power 4 public schools made up about 9 1/2 teams of the sweet 16 over the last 10 years and private schools and mid majors made up about 6 1/2. This year not one mid major made the sweet 16. (And again, the 2 BEST FUNDED privates made it).
I won’t go into all the reasons why, I did it in another post. Many agreed and some didn’t and I don’t want to flame or argue again.
suffice it to say that there’s a lot more than just hiring a better coach (which will help) involved in competing with the well funded state schools in this environment.
We are not alone.
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Only 15 teams have won more than 1 so it's not like it's that bizarre
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I thought that the B1G and SEC divide between them and all other colleges in football was bad but now it seems like it's happening in basketball too.
It used to be just the low and mid majors had difficulty competing in basketball on a level playing field but now the Big East and ACC could also find themselves on a lower level in basketball.
It used to be just the low and mid majors had difficulty competing in basketball on a level playing field but now the Big East and ACC could also find themselves on a lower level in basketball.
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To your point, when Buzz Williams went to A&M from Va Tech, the friends I mentioned from Seton Hall and Villanova and I questioned the move. Why go to the SEC from the ACC?
That was just 7 years ago. Buzz Knew. To hire a coach like that would require 8% of Villanova’s entire athletic budget, and 16% of Seton Hall’s!
Hiring better coaches would help us all, but the reality of competing with $250 million budgets with $25- $100,000,000 million budgets is inescapable.
Tony Bennett and Jay Wright were in their prime, and at the top of their game, and also saw what Buzz saw. Both had enough money to walk away, and the disposition to not get involved in the chaos that was coming.
Stephen a Smith echoed these sentiment the other day when he lamented no more Cinderella’s likely anytime soon. The Dalton Knechts no longer stay at those schools, And they are going to the biggest bag. (Can’t blame them). SEC will always have the biggest bags.
