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Jim Larranaga has been quoted in certain newspaper links that he left BG cuz they didn't have enough focus towards the basketball program. Apparently it seemed to him that we at BG are spread to thin with 4 major Div.1 sports with men's & women's basketball , football and hockey, G.Mason has no football or hockey. Does that factor in the their Atht.Dept. having a more focused attitude towards their basketball and being able to pay more as well and thus they are able to pay for a 10,000 seat arena?

I for one think its nice to have all of these sports but is it possible that it make s it impossible for a school like ours to have really great programs in our football, hockey and men's & womens' basketball cuz of our limited bugets? It was just something I happened to think about after reading that Larranaga article.

falconboy wrote:Jim Larranaga has been quoted in certain newspaper links that he left BG cuz they didn't have enough focus towards the basketball program. Apparently it seemed to him that we at BG are spread to thin with 4 major Div.1 sports with men's & women's basketball , football and hockey, G.Mason has no football or hockey. Does that factor in the their Atht.Dept. having a more focused attitude towards their basketball and being able to pay more as well and thus they are able to pay for a 10,000 seat arena?

I for one think its nice to have all of these sports but is it possible that it make s it impossible for a school like ours to have really great programs in our football, hockey and men's & womens' basketball cuz of our limited bugets? It was just something I happened to think about after reading that Larranaga article.

If it weren't for the MAC rule requiring us to field men's basketball and baseball teams, I suppose we could get rid of them.

Schadenfreude wrote:

falconboy wrote:Jim Larranaga has been quoted in certain newspaper links that he left BG cuz they didn't have enough focus towards the basketball program. Apparently it seemed to him that we at BG are spread to thin with 4 major Div.1 sports with men's & women's basketball , football and hockey, G.Mason has no football or hockey. Does that factor in the their Atht.Dept. having a more focused attitude towards their basketball and being able to pay more as well and thus they are able to pay for a 10,000 seat arena?

I for one think its nice to have all of these sports but is it possible that it make s it impossible for a school like ours to have really great programs in our football, hockey and men's & womens' basketball cuz of our limited bugets? It was just something I happened to think about after reading that Larranaga article.

If it weren't for the MAC rule requiring us to field men's basketball and baseball teams, I suppose we could get rid of them.

Yeah, I guess ther'es that too. I guess the Colonial Athletic Association doesnt' require football ,baseball and hocky which is maybe both good and bad for them at the same time, but if they just want' to be exceptional in just one main sport I guess it makes it easier for them to do so.

I'd rather be well rounded than have one team make the tournament once in a blue moon. What do people know more about as far as BG sports go, Omar Jacobs, Anderson Arena, or Stellar Field?

Football puts butts in the seats and puts students in the classroom.

Hockey is the only BG sport to have won a national championship if I recall correctly.

BGDrew wrote:Hockey is the only BG sport to have won a national championship if I recall correctly.

If you don't count football's College Division National Championship (which I do), then you're right.

BGDrew wrote:I'd rather be well rounded than have one team make the tournament once in a blue moon. What do people know more about as far as BG sports go, Omar Jacobs, Anderson Arena, or Stellar Field?

Football puts butts in the seats and puts students in the classroom.

Hockey is the only BG sport to have won a national championship if I recall correctly.

Track took second one year but I can't think of any team championships aside from hockey, eh?

I guess the Colonial Athletic Association doesnt' require football ,baseball and hocky which is maybe both good and bad for them at the same time, but if they just want' to be exceptional in just one main sport I guess it makes it easier for them to do so.

Tough to even say that the CAA is exceptional in basketball or ever will be. This past year was the only I think in which their basketball performance exceeded the MAC's.

True, but the Missouri Valley has the same thing--their basketball is their primary sport, and how many teams did they get into the tourney?