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Do you want Tripathi in charge of hiring a new AD, or would you take the field? Tripathi is 72, almost 73. As of 2016, only 11% of university presidents were 70+. I think the immediate future for the athletic program is not amazing (unless you are a volleyball/soccer fan) until there’s clarity about who is running the school in the future. I don’t trust Alnutt to make future hires. I don’t trust Tripathi to make a good AD hire. There’s no vision for the athletics program that the school had under Bill Greiner. White (who was a Tripathi hire) had a vision but little institutional/community support, and more bitching from the local columnists than support for a flagship athletics program vision. Remember when UB made the big dance for the first time *ever* and all that was in the news was the NYBI logo? Oats had a vision of success but did not get the support from the school (see: lack of student rec center years later). Both have moved on. Wonder what Danny White thinks of Jerry “women can’t have opinions about football” Sullivan these days. Probably doesn’t think much about him….

I'd rather suck at basketball than have a degree from St Bonaventure.

It's been nothing but amateur hour with Alnutt. He gave Whitesell an extension in Year 2 that bumped his buyout up $100k and then when we lost again after Year 3 we were stuck with a.)paying $500k to fire JW and restart with a new coach or b.) letting JW stick around to rebuild the team himself. We decided to stick with him, presumably because we didn't have the money, but then fired him the following year after a sub 0.500 season. Not only that, he fired JW 4 weeks before the buyout would have dropped to $400k so we didn't even end up saving any money vs firing him a year earlier! It was a completely wasted season that killed any of the national relevance Oats & Hurley had built. As if that debacle wasn't enough, it appears we didn't even have a gameplan in place that would explain why we pulled the trigger right before the buyout decrease, since we spent the next 3 weeks enduring one of the worst coaching searches I've ever witnessed. Every day was another story about a coach turning us down (Cohen, McCollum, Calhoun, etc...) or someone claiming we were toxic and refused to pay reasonable salaries. Now, in the end a lot of the chaos turned out to be false but the PR was a nightmare and for that I blame the Athletic Director. Alnutt is the reason we are where we are. He has made terrible contract decisions at inopportune times, he lacks vision or the ability to communicate effectively, and most importantly he doesn't appear to have an eye for coaching talent. I'm convinced we would be in a much better position with him gone. Halcovage, on the other hand, still gets more time before we write him off completely.

Net Rankings came out and the sting of this loss is a bit less Stony Brook has a #59 Ranking. The fact we competed with them to half time says a lot considered we are ranked #206. I think we have a more even match up to Drexel but we will see this Saturday

Not really surprising to anybody who is watched the team play this year. What point are you trying to make?

This is where things currently stand with the men’s basketball program.

C'mon BB. That's laughable to compare the caliber of player Kourtney Brown was to Ojala. Just because someone shares a similar build doesn't mean they share the same skill set. I wish they did, as Brown was one of the best. Brown started a good number of games her freshman year, while Ojala barely has seen the floor thus far. I surely hope she can develop into a player even remotely close to Brown, but when comparing 1st years with the Bulls, Brown has a huge head start.

For the record, that's out of 362 D1 teams. Kenpom has us 338 and Bart Torvik 330. I remain relatively patient but still rather flabbergasted.