shempie Posted June 27, 2017 Share Posted June 27, 2017 http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/19741386/the-most-challenging-college-basketball-job-every-state In case you missed it. A few A10 schools on this list including the Bills. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majerus mojo Posted June 27, 2017 Share Posted June 27, 2017 Crews line is not not wrong Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aj_arete Posted June 27, 2017 Share Posted June 27, 2017 Ridiculous article where I had to go on the website and defend the Billikens. This is far from the most challenging job in Missouri as they have top-notch facilities in a quality basketball conference. I would say their facilities are easily the top 2 in the conference and they reside in a major market with a top-notch school. What makes it challenging is the lack of a PE program (or at least that used to be the case), but Travis Ford is showing that this is a program that can attract talent. I would have said either UMKC or SEMO would be the most challenging in the state. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aj_arete Posted June 27, 2017 Share Posted June 27, 2017 There's so much inconsistency in that article that I shouldn't have wasted my time commenting, but had to add one more. Even if you're limiting it to Power 5 conferences, there's no way Illinois is a more challenging job than Northwestern. Just because Northwestern is currently better, that's only because they have a great coach. Even if facilities are subpar, Illinois has too much history and lesser entrance requirements to rate below Northwestern. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3star_recruit Posted June 27, 2017 Share Posted June 27, 2017 Calling Butler the most challenging job in Indiana is also a head scratcher. Butler has been a successful program since the 90s. What about Evansville? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quality Is Job 1 Posted June 28, 2017 Share Posted June 28, 2017 I haven't read the article — and don't feel motivated to — but perhaps it could be read as a sort of most-underrated list. It's more exposure for the schools on the list for casual fans. Kind of, like, "There's no such thing as bad publicity; just make sure you spell my name right." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
For-DaLove Posted June 28, 2017 Share Posted June 28, 2017 13 minutes ago, Quality Is Job 1 said: I haven't read the article — and don't feel motivated to — but perhaps it could be read as a sort of most-underrated list. It's more exposure for the schools on the list for casual fans. Kind of, like, "There's no such thing as bad publicity; just make sure you spell my name right." Maybe read the article before theorizing about the content? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheeseman Posted June 28, 2017 Share Posted June 28, 2017 Actually, after reading the article, one could say any publicity is good publicity. Rather than feeling attacked, I saw it as something that makes us more relevant. Think of all the D1 programs in the state and ours was picked as being more relevant and one that could be looked at on par with the state's flagship school. All the other ones that were not mentioned basically were not worth mentioning for all in intents and purposes at least according this article. Look at some of the schools on the list - UConn, IL, Butler, to name a few - to be lumped in with them has some value. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUBillsFan Posted June 28, 2017 Share Posted June 28, 2017 I don't think the article means "challenging" as in most difficult school at which to win. I think the article is trying to balance "most difficult school at which to win" and "fan bases with high expectations for winning". SLU is difficult because Majerus gave fans a taste of winning a lot, so it is challenging to follow that up. I'd imagine UMKC or SEMO fans don't really have expectations for their basketball program. Butler is challenging because they've been very successful under the recent run of coaches and continuing that level of success will be hard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quality Is Job 1 Posted June 28, 2017 Share Posted June 28, 2017 18 hours ago, For-DaLove said: Maybe read the article before theorizing about the content? Why? Are you the author of the article? I'm sorry to offend you by my frank admission that I wasn't interested. Anyway, my "theorizing" was less about the content and more about responding to comments in this thread. And Cheeseman made comments similar to mine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheeseman Posted June 28, 2017 Share Posted June 28, 2017 2 hours ago, Quality Is Job 1 said: Why? Are you the author of the article? I'm sorry to offend you by my frank admission that I wasn't interested. Anyway, my "theorizing" was less about the content and more about responding to comments in this thread. And Cheeseman made comments similar to mine. Yes but I read the article. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quality Is Job 1 Posted June 28, 2017 Share Posted June 28, 2017 7 minutes ago, cheeseman said: Yes but I read the article. Good for you! I read the part pertaining to the Billikens that was posted in this thread; that's all I was interested in or had time for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old guy Posted June 29, 2017 Share Posted June 29, 2017 Time is not infinite, why waste time reading about a whole pile of other schools about which you just do not care. It does make sense to read what he said about SLU and let the rest go unread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheeseman Posted June 29, 2017 Share Posted June 29, 2017 11 hours ago, Old guy said: Time is not infinite, why waste time reading about a whole pile of other schools about which you just do not care. It does make sense to read what he said about SLU and let the rest go unread. I would say that if I had not scanned through the article I would not have gotten the perspective that I took away. Everybody can do what ever they want but there is not a one right answer here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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