http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/130088278.html
So they are going to study the landscape, huh? I guess they can't do much else. Without football, it's a wait-and-see game. Of course, they would never say that because they want to pretend to be proactive.
Quote from: muhs03 on September 18, 2011, 08:54:47 PM
So they are going to study the landscape, huh? I guess they can't do much else. Without football, it's a wait-and-see game. Of course, they would never say that because they want to pretend to be proactive.
I hate it when they say stuff like that.
Its so meaningless. I mean, what else would they do when they have no idea what to do?
That article doesn't give me much confidence.
Sounds like Pilarz is busy trying to figure out and study MU's athletic department, don't know how he could grasp the state of national athletics at this juncture.
Unfortunately we're being led by a inexperienced president in regards to big time athletics who has yet to come close to hiring a competent AD to invoke confidence in MU fans. Best I can tell because he's busy waiting to hear back from a group of outside "experts" on if his athletic department sucks or is competent.
Yeah this whole conference thing is going to end great for us.
Quote from: Hards_Alumni on September 18, 2011, 09:19:50 PM
I hate it when they say stuff like that.
Its so meaningless. I mean, what else would they do when they have no idea what to do?
Well, that is exactly my point. Hell, does having/not having an AD even freaking matter right now? Marinatto was eating a cannoli when the most important charter member bounced to another conference. I dont think Pitt or Cuse was going to call MU and give them a heads up.
Having an AD right now doesn't matter, one of the current Big East schools (basketball only) needs to step up and take initiative, and propose a basketball only conference. Someone needs to be a leader in this case, we need to make the landscape not just study it. Broeker, and Pilarz need to take initiative to keep MU in a good basketball conference.
Quote from: Stone Cold on September 18, 2011, 10:32:47 PM
Unfortunately we're being led by a inexperienced president in regards to big time athletics who has yet to come close to hiring a competent AD to invoke confidence in MU fans. Best I can tell because he's busy waiting to hear back from a group of outside "experts" on if his athletic department sucks or is competent.
Are you a complete boob? You really think the ADs are making decisions about conferences?
need to re-read the inexperienced president in big time athletics part of my post again.
Presidents are the final arbiters but you might want to study up on guys such as Deloss Dodds Texas' AD and Jack Swarbrick Notre Dame AD. They are pulling the strings at the two most prestigious athletic institutions.
Relying on priests in negotiations rather than lawyers may not be the best thing. Pretty sure Cottingham was a lawyer.
MU needs to be calling the non-football BE schools and help create a path to maintaining their conference ties.
MU really is in an easier position than the other FB schools: Cincy, Nova, UL, Rutgers, ND. Conferences will be evaluating them more than the non-FB schools.
Quote from: Stone Cold on September 18, 2011, 11:17:00 PM
need to re-read the inexperienced president in big time athletics part of my post again.
Presidents are the final arbiters but you might want to study up on guys such as Deloss Dodds Texas' AD and Jack Swarbrick Notre Dame AD. They are pulling the strings at the two most prestigious athletic institutions.
Relying on priests in negotiations rather than lawyers may not be the best thing. Pretty sure Cottingham was a lawyer.
How much are Texas' and ND's athletic Directors paid? How much had they done at the schools they were at prior, what type of resume's did they have before being hired? Cottingham was not in the same book as these two let alone page or paragraph. Pilarz is hardly just a priest for one...being a priest doesn't qualify one to run a college, if you want to question the man's intelligence in running an institution go look at how much he did for Scranton. Cottingham was a lawyer, very true. How many Lawyer's does Marquette have in it's arsenal again? How many lawyers are employed by Marquette? He is inexperienced, but many of the people that were here for the initial move to the Big East are still here including almighty lawyers. To say that an Athletic Director would help us right now is foolish.
If you have such problems with Father Pilarz' sports knowledge, go ahead and email him. Marquette makes it very easy for you to find the email's of their upper echelon employees.
Thank God they are shooting down the Catholic Conference idea.