Re: Time Warner is not the problem

[Dan Marshall]

I realize the practice facilities are top notch... (although our guys should
be in class not doing extra practice...)

But still, if I'm a player... 13,000? 30,000? 

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[mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of Tom Carter
Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 11:00 PM
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Subject: Re: [UC Basketball] Time Warner is not the problem

I'm sorry to have to challenge your statement that we only have our 13,000
plus multi-purpose facility,  having spent several hours touring "The
Richard Lindner Center" I can tell you this facility is a world class
facility and that 4 floors below the "green space" between the baseball
field and Nippert is a full court basketball court facility that Mick loves
and the kids will use regularly. This athletic facility is second to none,
in or out of the big east!
   
  Bob was given a chance and we are better for it and we should stand by
this team and coach Cronin and things might just work out!  Not without some
hiccups to be sure, but with the thought that it's a new era and this team,
head coach and the university should get our support! It has mine!
   
  Tom Carter, a bearcat fan since 1960!

Dan Marshall <address@hidden> wrote:
  The point is this, you have to remember now we compete with all the other
Big East teams for recruiting, before we only really competed with the CUSA
teams for the Non All Americans... We barely won in that, now we compete
with the big guys,

I don't know how someone can think that a first year coach with a Small
arena, and limited nat tv coverage can compete with Syracuse, UCONN,
Louisville, et al.

It doesn't make sense to say that we have an advantage... Before we had the
advantage of being at the top of our league, the mid to bottom of the league
will not get better recruits than the top of the CUSA... All the good ones
will choose a Big East team that offers more.

Also what "New 'physincilities' (I assume you mean facilities) Do we have
for Basketball? It's the same 13,000+ Multi purpose arena.

What's tiresome is blind optimism, I'm interested in a solution as well, but
blind, ignore the facts optimism will not get us to a solution

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Subject: Re: [UC Basketball] Time Warner is not the problem


In a message dated 9/28/2006 4:39:37 PM Eastern Standard Time,
address@hidden writes:

It's going to be a lot more difficult to "rebuild" in the Big east than it
was in CUSA


Disagree totally, new physicilities everywhere, one of the top 3 basketball
conferences in the country, good, young, well respected basketball coach
that has proven for years he can recruit with anyone. I think he did well
this year with a couple weeks to work with. In the next couple years he will
bring in big time recruits. 
I hated what happened to Coach Huggins and thought for sure he would get an
opportunity to coach in the Big East but, much of the off court problems
(his and his players) were his responsibility. His removal for image
problems is not a surprise to many in the know. The die-hard "we won't be
sh--t without Huggins" and it's all Zimpher's fault is very tiresome.

Logan