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[QUOTE="DomeHolmes, post: 5386779, member: 10113"]
[B]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.[/B]
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