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No. They should hold tryouts and form a Boston Unified athletic program made up of all 671 colleges in the metro area. All comers. all divisions. One program.

 

The Earth won't exist long enough for those schools to get together to do anything.

 

BC baseball somehow fell into a spot in the Super Regionals last year. For some reason they played well against some good ACC teams last season, made the regionals, and were able to beat somebody.

 

To be fair, Andy Kennedy has carved out a nice little niche for hoops at Ole Miss. They just opened what I am told is one of the nicest arenas in the league, and with the football team staring at NCAA double secret probation, basketball is enjoying a resurgence in Rebel Land.

 

They also have a nice niche of going 18-13 and making the NIT every year.

 

Pat Forde with a Costco-sized rumor dump.

Sources: Lorenzo Romar to return at Washington, Thad Matta to return at Ohio State, Mark Fox's Georgia future in doubt

 

Any living character from Peter Golenbock's Personal Fouls expose of 1987 NC State has a lifetime rooting interest from me.

 

In some ways if your ego is OK with not being the most powerful or popular guy in town, these can be really good jobs partially because people don't pay much attention until you either go really well or really bad. Texas A&M was a perfect stepping stone for Turgeon and Billy Donovan got some time to build a program because he was at a football school. It took Texas fans almost a decade to notice Rick Barnes' winning percentage didn't match up to his recruiting rankings.

On the other side, if you are the guy who can consistently take Kentucky or Indiana or Kansas to a bowl game you are golden.

 

The basketball manager that talked in that book, John Simonds, was counselor in my cabin at camp (Camp Sea Gull, affiliated with the Raleigh YMCA) a year or two before the book came out. He wore nothing but NC State basketball gear and was a super guy -- at least to me when I was 15. Darn good basketball player, too.

 

Valid points.

 

Yup. Just ask David Cutcliffe

 

It's never good to be the northern-most school in a southern league.