Re: Whaley arrested

[Brian Johnson]

Richard, good point, but I don't think you have
anything to worry about.  College athletics is all
about $$$$ and business.  UC makes the tournament, and
therefore generates revenue.  The image is secondary. 
Besides, I think ADs are astute enough to cut through
the bogus image flak.

As for your ACC expansion concern, I think it's
already been stated that Miami, BC and Syracuse is a
package deal, so to speak (per Miami's insistance, I
think).  Plus, IMHO there is no way the Big East is
going to pick USF or ECU over UC.

--- "richard l. kandell" <address@hidden>
wrote:
> To be honest I don't care, now or ever, what Xavier
> fans, or fans of any
> other school for that matter, think or say about any
> program at UC.  What I
> am concerned about, especially at this particular
> moment in time, is what
> other athletic directors and university presidents
> think about UC.  I have
> no idea whether the ACC Commissioner is going to get
> the 7 votes he needs to
> add members, but if he does I don't want UC left out
> in the cold when the
> musical chairs start/end because we have the wrong
> "image" with the people
> who are going to make the decisions on who sits
> where.
>
> Dave Wetzel has an article in which he opines that
> in the event the BE is
> raided, UConn is the primary school with, or
> causing, a dilemma as to where
> to go or stay, because of the situation involving
> the status of its men's
> basketball program versus its football program.  But
> what troubles me is
> that he correctly points out if only 1 school is
> added to the ACC (Miami)
> and the BE goes looking for a single replacement,
> that is likely to be UofL.
> How many of us want to see UC remain in the current
> C-USA, but without UofL?
> Despite our record in men's basketball, UofL with
> Pitino is as, or more,
> attractive then we are, if for no more reason then
> the size of their arena
> and their fan base.  The same is true of football. 
> And their athletic
> budget, for whatever reason(s), is by far the
> largest in C-USA.  I'm not
> sure there is much we can do about that situation,
> but Wetzel also opines
> that if there is more than 1 team added it may well
> be schools like USF or
> ECU as opposed to UC.  Now I don't agree with him on
> that score, but,
>
> With all of the above, the last thing we need is the
> reinforcement of any
> negative images that UC's athletic programs may have
> with the AD's and
> Presidents of the BE schools.  I'm as willing as the
> next guy to give
> someone a second chance - but despite the obvious
> need to not convict
> someone before all the evidence is in, and the
> negative impact it would have
> on next year's basketball season, I'm not sure how
> long I'd wait before
> yanking the scholarship offer to Whaley.
>
> Richard K.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Shinkle, Randy" <address@hidden>
> To: <address@hidden>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2003 1:12 PM
> Subject: RE: [UC Basketball] Whaley arrested
>
>
> You're right.  I read the article wrong and thought
> that the brawl occurred
> on the Garden City campus, when in fact it occurred
> on the Barton County
> campus and involved members of Garden City's track
> team.  Based on my
> misreading, I lumped the police into the "Garden
> City side" because I found
> the timing strange.
>
> It's still odd that the arrest was just now made
> when the local Great Bend,
> KS paper said it its original coverage that any
> arrests would occur within a
> few days.
>
> Randy '78
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Hal Henderson [mailto:address@hidden
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2003 12:38 PM
> > To: address@hidden
> > Subject: Re: [UC Basketball] Whaley arrested
> >
> >
> > Actually, it appears that it is the police who
> have made this
> > determination.
> >
> > Hal ('68)
> >
> > > Now, 3 months later, folks on the Garden City
> side have
> > determined that
> > Whaley was an active participant.


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