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Date Posted: 01:00:41pm 01/20/06 Fri,
Author: Stagophile
Subject: XU: All For One

Interesting article on Xavier basketball. I found the following quote to be the highlight of the article.

"Administrations win championships," Memphis coach John Calipari told the Musketeers Club the year after he coached UMass to a place in the national title game. "Not coaches."

While I disagree with his point about coaches to a certain extent, this quote captures what alot of us have been discussing about either a lack of commitment or a lack of understanding of what is take to build a winning program. Love him or hate him, there is only so TOT can do as a coach. He is responsible for the X and Os and recruiting. If we want to see a successful basketball program at Fairfield we need the full commitment of the Administration to back up TOT in his efforts to build a winning programs.

http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060118/COL03/601180356/1007/col03

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[> Re: XU: All For One -- FU73, 02:07:50pm 01/20/06 Fri, [1]

It will crucial to the future of Fairfield athletics once the new Fr. von Arx adminstration reveals its plan, goals and vision for athletics. I agree that there does seem to be both a lack of understanding and committment in the past as to what is necessary to build and maintain a winning program. Maybe good this are in the offing?

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[> Re:disagree -- FUAlum, 04:27:31pm 01/20/06 Fri, [1]

I strongly disagree with the opinions that FU hasn't been commited to the program when 1) Fairfield currently has one of the MAAC's largest athletic budgets, 2) the Walsh Center was a major financial commitment, and the facility is considered on par with several Atlantic 10 and Big East training facilities, and 3) like it or not, moving to AHY took guts and showed a major commitment to put the Stags in a bigtime environment.

Yes, there are some things the school could do better in terms of MARKETING the program, but as far as money goes, we've put as much into the team as any MAAC school possibly could. I think TOT is more to blame for the not winning right now, plus the CT Post bogus NCAA violations really hurt recruiting IMO.

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[> [> Re:disagree -- Running Man, 05:59:04pm 01/20/06 Fri, [1]

The university is very specific in the manner in which it distributes its funds. Many sports get virtually no help from the school. That is not my idea of a healthy and equitable system and what it really does is perpetuates mediocrity.

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[> [> Re:disagree -- JoeStag, 06:45:59pm 01/20/06 Fri, [1]

The Athletic Depart did publish how they have put all Division I sports into 4 tiers, and given each of them a different level of support. And I think the number of Scholarships is by far the biggest ticket item. The last I knew only Men's and Womes's hoops were Tier 1 sports.... which meant they give out the maximum number of scholarships allowed by NCAA.

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