Silver Maple
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Loc: Westfield, New Jersey
Reg: 11-23-04
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03-27-24 08:46 AM - Post#366587
In response to CM
Clearly it should raise alarm bells. But that brings us to two crucial questions: 1) what, exactly is the problem here? 2) What's the goal to be achieved?
Most of us here would answer #1 along the lines of 'the conference is in on a path to becoming completely uncompetitive in D1 basketball,' and would answer #2 as being something like 'get the conference back to having most of it's teams ranked in the top 50% of D1, and a few in the top 25%.' However, I doubt very much that the senior administrators at the individual schools would answer the same way. They would probably answer #1 with 'the league's performance in D1 is in danger of becoming a source of humiliation to the individual institutions and their alumni,' and #2 with 'let's make sure our basketball teams aren't a source of too much embarrassment.' Those are very different problem/solution sets. Any solutions proposed here need to acknowledge the university presidents' perceptions of the problem to be solved.
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