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Date Posted: Monday, February 09, 07:46:23pm
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This post probably has nothing to do with all the very decent posts above, but for the hell of it here are some random thoughts. Rider has just bravely and transparently admitted that they are in the Indy 500 on a tricycle and cannot compete and are financially losing money hand over fist. Bona I believe has a coach who gets compensated from special booster donations or had been any way. To compete with the schools they are tied to in the A-10, they found a man willing to give what remains of his life to basically raising money for the athletic programs, and I hope it's more than just basketball, but who knows? Wojo knows more people in sports than anyone excluding God, and from the friars standpoint that's the kind of person they sorely needed to keep up. They are having a hard time right at the moment even though they have some growing resources.
Bona has never been an easy school to recruit to, and how it looks among it's A-10 counterparts presently can't make it climb that ladder very quickly. NU and CU traditionally have been the hardest MAAC schools to recruit to, excluding the JAM era. It can't be any easier now with no money, shitty facilities and a history of losing, losing and MORE losing.
Ask yourselves no matter how wealthy you are if you could afford to pay and for how long the medical bills of a terminally ill family member. Since Niagara University reps can't fly all over the country ala Stanford, UConn, etc and sell the virtues of success on the foundation ad the amount of trophy cases that constantly have to purchase, Division I to Niagara University has NOTHING to do with success leading to growth. The cost of the whole kit and caboodle is merely for public relations purposes with no inclinations to using success in sports as a measure of it's purpose. They can tout assisting in growth and all that bullshit, but in terms of success on the ice, court, or on grass, or on the alleys, or the nets....underwhelming to say the least.
GP has to sell more than GP. What have they given him to market? From A-Z, there isn't one single B-12 shot.
Seattle had more talented players than NE, while NE had by the numbers an easy schedule. But they were 14-3. Now everybody sees NE as "losers" today in a mocking sense. It's so fleeting...but I digress...
Fans are kind of a PIA to NU. They don't have any body who serves them, thy don't take care of the ones they have, and it's not a prideful labor of the school. It's a PIA.
This university is allowed to put the Division I logo or whatever the hell it is on it's stationery even though it is allowed to compete in the Olympic high jump at 80 years old and with only one leg. NU could care less how successful they are on the field, when the first thing they think of when winning something is will it cost us more to keep this coach or just see it as an anomaly and carry on.
Unless the courts UNDO a lot of this nonsense and return it to SORT OF kind of YOU KNOW CLOSE TO what it was, NU should consider downgrading to D-III, where competition will be better, the students will become MORE well rounded than in D-I, and they will grow more from the success from all angles.
Until one or the other happens, I have no sympathy for NU. Ask them why the schools is 67% / 33% female to male ratio. St Bona, 52% / 48$ male to female ratio, and Bona doesn't have an engineering school either.
NU was never meant to become a school with competitive sports programs. Any success just fell in their laps, and as you can see they knew nor cared how to handle it, but whatever was the cheapest and the lesser of a PIA.
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