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mpcincal said:When I saw the Pecora news, I was thinking it was a curious lateral move, but then I remembered Fordham's in the Atlantic 10 now.
I think if you're talking conferences, CAA to the A10 is a step up, isn't it?
Fordham is a black hole right now. They're in the A-10, but they might as well be an independent. No structure, old gym, combined 5 wins the past two years, and most of this year's recruits will either defect because Jared Grasso is getting the boot or wouldn't make it in the first place.mpcincal said:When I saw the Pecora news, I was thinking it was a curious lateral move, but then I remembered Fordham's in the Atlantic 10 now.
I think if you're talking conferences, CAA to the A10 is a step up, isn't it?
mpcincal said:When I saw the Pecora news, I was thinking it was a curious lateral move, but then I remembered Fordham's in the Atlantic 10 now.
I think if you're talking conferences, CAA to the A10 is a step up, isn't it?
DisembodiedOwlHead said:I thought McCaffrey was making $800k at Siena ?
Moderator1 said:mpcincal said:When I saw the Pecora news, I was thinking it was a curious lateral move, but then I remembered Fordham's in the Atlantic 10 now.
I think if you're talking conferences, CAA to the A10 is a step up, isn't it?
It is a step up if you are at the top of the A10. Not sure with the bottom. The A10 has always struck me as a very unbalanced conference. Richmond this year proved you could go from the bottom to the top. VCU was a fifth-place CAA team this year and it is 3-0 against A10 teams.
X, Temple, Rhody, UR, St. Joe's sometimes, Dayton most of the time - fine. St. L is maybe making some strides. But the Fordham, St. Bonnies of the worlds don't seem to ever get much better.
If I was interested in the UO job I'd wait for it to open up again in three years or so. The school has a habit of getting rid of guys who are relatively successful, replacing them with a "name" coach who will get them "to the next level" only to see that coach bolt to a big time basketball school if they have any immediate success.
micropolitan guy said:If I was interested in the UO job I'd wait for it to open up again in three years or so. The school has a habit of getting rid of guys who are relatively successful, replacing them with a "name" coach who will get them "to the next level" only to see that coach bolt to a big time basketball school if they have any immediate success.
Interesting goings-on at Oregon.
The guy leading the search committee (Pat Kilkenny), and essentially doing the hiring because there is no AD, isn't even a university employee.
Kilkenny also pays part of Mark Few's salary at Gonzaga through a specific donation to the university.
He's a big booster who bought out the previous AD (Moos) and was the interim AD before Bellotti got pushed upstairs (even though he does not have a college degree), and is a self-made millionaire who is also a puppet for Nike and you-know-who.
Whomever is hired will know that he answers to Beaverton, first and foremost.
zagoshe said:Too many of those kinds of guys -- and schools - don't recognize a good thing and then make a mistake of leaving/letting him leave and live to regret it