I'm not sure you were agreeing with me or criticizing me. For clarification my reply was to the poster who made the claim that there are and have been far more incredibly absurd statements made by people on the internet than rumrunners proclamations. I was not agreeing with rumrunner.This is something even I wouldn't post. I thought Herbst did a good job of being aggressive and letting our wishes be known but not in a desperate way (see WVU).
What took JC and the AD to build over three decades, Herbst presided over its decimation in fewerthan 3 months. She will be forever known as the one that dropped the ball.
Wasn't it the Germans who bombed Pearl Harbor?
What took JC and the AD to build over three decades, Herbst presided over its decimation in fewerthan 3 months. She will be forever known as the one that dropped the ball.
I'm not sure you were agreeing with me or criticizing me. For clarification my reply was to the poster who made the claim that there are and have been far more incredibly absurd statements made by people on the internet than rumrunners proclamations. I was not agreeing with rumrunner.
FTR: I'm a big fan of Herbst no matter how this turns out. She has demonstrated a lot of qualities that I feel are important for leadership.
Bingo. the ball was completely dropped 5-6 years ago when the league allowed the ACC to swoop in and take Va Tech, Miami, and BCU. they they could have been proactive right after that in going after TCU but waited till this year to do so. and the BE football schools allowed the BE commish to give equal weight to hoops and football, another huge mistake. Herbst has been trying to clean up their mess the past month.Ball was dropped years ago.
Bingo. the ball was completely dropped 5-6 years ago when the league allowed the ACC to swoop in and take Va Tech, Miami, and BCU. they they could have been proactive right after that in going after TCU but waited till this year to do so. and the BE football schools allowed the BE commish to give equal weight to hoops and football, another huge mistake. Herbst has been trying to clean up their mess the past month.
perhaps you are correct. my point, tho, is, while i'm not sure what could have been done after the disaster of the ACC original raid, the fact is the football schools allowed the commissioner to treat hoops and football equally. i don't have a solution. we added L'ville and Cincy as football schools after we lost the other 3. it's just unfortunate...LOL. At the time of the first raid TCU wasn't worth taking into an east coast conference.
perhaps you are correct. my point, tho, is, while i'm not sure what could have been done after the disaster of the ACC original raid, the fact is the football schools allowed the commissioner to treat hoops and football equally. i don't have a solution. we added L'ville and Cincy as football schools after we lost the other 3. it's just unfortunate...
LOL. At the time of the first raid TCU wasn't worth taking into an east coast conference.
THIS is the most ludicrous post you have ever read? You haven't been around here long, have you?
HUH?What took JC and the AD to build over three decades, Herbst presided over its decimation in fewerthan 3 months. She will be forever known as the one that dropped the ball.
TCU was winning 10-11 games a year 5-6 years ago. When the Big East first added the CUSA schools, TCU was approached to join but passed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_TCU_Horned_Frogs_football_team
TCU went 11-1 in 2003. They were 7-1 in conference. Better than Cincy and USF.
I don't care what she's done. It's been fine. What matters is what she does from here. If it's to close ranks with the rest of the Big East, she fails. If we stay in the Big east we can and will become what we were when I attended, as decent regional public school. If you're nostalgic for those days, and some are, this may be fine for you. I'd rather we become the flagship public university in the northeast, we're well on the way, if we keep pushing forward, and leave the BE behind.
the problem with you assertion is that we have nowhere to go. i guess you think we should leave the BE and join CUSA? is that the progress you're advocating? because that's the most desireable option available to us right now.
enough with these facts getting in the way of really good arguments.
Does anyone else think that Rumrunner is Jeff Hathaway?What took JC and the AD to build over three decades, Herbst presided over its decimation in fewerthan 3 months. She will be forever known as the one that dropped the ball.
No, not leave this instant. But if she cannot arrange an invite to the ACC or the Big Ten, then I'll give her a failing grade for results, if not for her effort. If she has staying in a reconstituted BE as option #1 right now (and I don't think she does) then that would be a problem.the problem with you assertion is that we have nowhere to go. i guess you think we should leave the BE and join CUSA? is that the progress you're advocating? because that's the most desireable option available to us right now.