Billy Donovan threw his team out of the $12 million practice facility because he said his team had become too complacent. Tom Izzo pulled a similar move earlier in the year when his team lost an exhibition game to a Division II opponent.
I wonder if the coaching staff threw themselves out of their plush offices and started driving cars to see recruits? College sports has lost it’s collective mind.
A third tournamtnet has come on the scene this year. It is called the CBI. At first look you would think it was put in place to recognize teams that have had outstanding years, but for some reason were left out of the Big Dance and the NIT. Wrong, look again.
How can a tournament be taken seriously when you have a 13-18 Cincinnatti team invited. How about a .500 Virginia squad. Come on fellas have some dignity. You don’t deserve to still be playing. For a list of the entire field go to this story. By the way how can you leave out a 26-7 IUPUI team. What a joke!!!
With all the talk of integrity by the head of the NCAA, I find it unbelievable that they would get in the ticket brokering business. Is $6 billion (CBS payment for rights) not enough? Myles Brand please walk the walk. Don’t be this pied piper of integrity and then pull a stunt like this. Check out this story in the Indianapolis Star.
On Thursday, SI.com will introduce the “Vault” to readers, which is a free online archive containing all of their old covers, photos and stories. The “Vault” will also contain video material as well.
SI.com already draws more than six million unique visitors each month, according to Nielsen Online (publications insist that the true numbers are much higher than Nielsen’s ratings), and executives of the magazine predict the Vault could add five million monthly readers.
“The real hidden value of this is what it does for search,” said John Squires, executive vice president of Time Inc., the Time Warner subsidiary that publishes Sports Illustrated. The move quadruples the site’s volume, he said. “We’ll have to work our way up the search algorithms over time, but eventually, someone searches Johnny Unitas, and SI.com is going to pop up.”
Many publications, including most major magazines, still offer little or no archive access online. And of those that do allow readers to look deep into their histories, many charge for it, like The Washington Post or The Atlantic Monthly, whose online archives both go back to the 19th century.
I think this is a fantastic idea and kudos to SI for not charging people to view the material. I’m sure we’ve all wanted to go back in time and re-read an interesting article done on one of our favorite athletes or teams. Now readers have the opportunity to enjoy a little blast from the past and this will be a great resource for bloggers, too.
Conference tournaments are over and some teams are in and some are not. When you’re not it could mean a “pink slip.” Regular seasons don’t matter anymore, only whether you made post season play.
Jobs that openned on Sunday were TCU, Toledo and Centenary. Stan Joplin had been at Toledo for 12 years. He had a winning record and won the regular season title a couple of times, but never advanced to the NCAA tournament. That spelled doom for him.
At TCU, Neil Doughety went six seasons without a winning season. That was a pretty easy decision. What is surprising is that he got six years.
Both jobs will have the usual suspects. High major assistants and coaches looking to move to a greener pasture. Look for Barry Hinson to be a candidate at TCU. Greg Kampe, a former Toledo assistant, will be in the hunt for the Rockets job if he wants to be.
Another rising star is Pat Flannery of Bucknell (2 NCAA tournament wins) and Ron Hunter. Speaking of Hunter, his team got snubed by the NCAA, NIT and CBI with a 26-7 record. That doesn’t speak well for the Summit League or commisioner Tom Doupal. Quite frankly, it is a travesty that they are not playing in the post-season.
Stay tuned, more openings to come….
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