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snichols
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 Posted: 04/09/24 10:55 pm ::: End of an era? |
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| With Tara retiring, is she the last head coach from the AIAW days? I can’t think of anyone else left who was a head coach back then. Geno didn’t become a head coach until the NCAA days, and neither did Bill Fennelly at Iowa State.
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| Posted: 04/10/24 6:54 am ::: |
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Doug Bruno was head coach at DePaul for a couple of seasons in the mid 70s before leaving to coach the Chicago Hustle of the WPBL. After that league folded he was an assistant men's coach at Loyola Chicago before returning to DePaul in the late 80s.
In D-II Robert Skinner is now at Albany State. He started his head coaching career at Paine in 1980-81, the last season before the NCAA took over.
In D-III the immortal Andy Yosinoff has been head coach at Emmanuel College since 1977-78, the only coach remaining to have held the same job continuously since the AIAW days.
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| Posted: 04/10/24 8:40 am ::: |
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I can't blame her for not wanting to put herself through a grueling travel schedule. Seems like none of these schools out west learned anything from UConn's plight before they went back to what they knew. All of these west coast schools playing in an Eastern conference are screwed. They just don't know it yet. They are blinded by football money.
Tara is getting out at just the right time. Smart woman.
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| Posted: 04/10/24 4:47 pm ::: |
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| Stonington_QB wrote: |
I can't blame her for not wanting to put herself through a grueling travel schedule. Seems like none of these schools out west learned anything from UConn's plight before they went back to what they knew. All of these west coast schools playing in an Eastern conference are screwed. They just don't know it yet. They are blinded by football money.
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I don't think the travel is that bad. Six hours in a bus or 6 hours on a chartered jet isn't that much different. They will play other west coast ACC teams twice a year. If they play 9 conference road games, NDame/Louisville is 4 hours by jet so they can get in all the east coast teams in 2 trips.
I think it has more to do with NIL. And fatigue.
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Michael
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| Posted: 04/10/24 5:26 pm ::: |
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| Stonington_QB wrote: |
I can't blame her for not wanting to put herself through a grueling travel schedule. Seems like none of these schools out west learned anything from UConn's plight before they went back to what they knew. All of these west coast schools playing in an Eastern conference are screwed. They just don't know it yet. They are blinded by football money.
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What choice did the schools that left have though? Go to Eastern conferences to gain enough money to run their programs, or stay in the PAC with little to no TV money to enable them to even keep fielding teams? When Oregon and Washington can get a HALF share in the Big Ten and nearly double their share of conference payments from what the PAC12 was providing,it just shows how badly the PAC was clearly massively mismanaged and had no chance to survive. Either the teams starved to death together or the ones that could leave to somewhere that they can gain the revenue they needed to stay in business.
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| Posted: 04/10/24 7:33 pm ::: |
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| Michael wrote: |
| Stonington_QB wrote: |
I can't blame her for not wanting to put herself through a grueling travel schedule. Seems like none of these schools out west learned anything from UConn's plight before they went back to what they knew. All of these west coast schools playing in an Eastern conference are screwed. They just don't know it yet. They are blinded by football money.
Tara is getting out at just the right time. Smart woman. |
What choice did the schools that left have though? Go to Eastern conferences to gain enough money to run their programs, or stay in the PAC with little to no TV money to enable them to even keep fielding teams? When Oregon and Washington can get a HALF share in the Big Ten and nearly double their share of conference payments from what the PAC12 was providing,it just shows how badly the PAC was clearly massively mismanaged and had no chance to survive. Either the teams starved to death together or the ones that could leave to somewhere that they can gain the revenue they needed to stay in business. |
Why do they need extra money to field sports teams that they have fielded for decades?
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| Posted: 04/10/24 9:03 pm ::: |
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| tfan wrote: |
| Michael wrote: |
| Stonington_QB wrote: |
I can't blame her for not wanting to put herself through a grueling travel schedule. Seems like none of these schools out west learned anything from UConn's plight before they went back to what they knew. All of these west coast schools playing in an Eastern conference are screwed. They just don't know it yet. They are blinded by football money.
Tara is getting out at just the right time. Smart woman. |
What choice did the schools that left have though? Go to Eastern conferences to gain enough money to run their programs, or stay in the PAC with little to no TV money to enable them to even keep fielding teams? When Oregon and Washington can get a HALF share in the Big Ten and nearly double their share of conference payments from what the PAC12 was providing,it just shows how badly the PAC was clearly massively mismanaged and had no chance to survive. Either the teams starved to death together or the ones that could leave to somewhere that they can gain the revenue they needed to stay in business. |
Why do they need extra money to field sports teams that they have fielded for decades? |
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| Posted: 04/10/24 10:49 pm ::: |
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| Michael wrote: |
| Stonington_QB wrote: |
I can't blame her for not wanting to put herself through a grueling travel schedule. Seems like none of these schools out west learned anything from UConn's plight before they went back to what they knew. All of these west coast schools playing in an Eastern conference are screwed. They just don't know it yet. They are blinded by football money.
Tara is getting out at just the right time. Smart woman. |
What choice did the schools that left have though? Go to Eastern conferences to gain enough money to run their programs, or stay in the PAC with little to no TV money to enable them to even keep fielding teams? When Oregon and Washington can get a HALF share in the Big Ten and nearly double their share of conference payments from what the PAC12 was providing,it just shows how badly the PAC was clearly massively mismanaged and had no chance to survive. Either the teams starved to death together or the ones that could leave to somewhere that they can gain the revenue they needed to stay in business. |
Why do they need extra money to field sports teams that they have fielded for decades? |
Inflation. Additionally costs for college sports are rising much faster than inflation on the whole. This last year UCLA lost something like 10 million in their athletic department. That is unsustainable. Even if costs had not been rising rapidly, the PAC had NO TV DEAL for 24-25 and had nearly exhausted all options to get one. When Apple TV tells you that you have no real value to them, you have hit a major issue somewhere. That means more than half the conference shared revenue was gone as well. While Stanford and Cal can live off their endowment to subsidize their sports teams indefinitely, the rest of the conference can not.
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