I think Dr Wood is so consumed with the "FBS or Bust" campaign that charting a well researched, prudent path to the FBS is lost in all the hype and hyperbole. He sees Sac as a budding, FBS, power football program that can follow a path similar to what Deion Sanders has done at Colorado. So they bring in a coach with name recognition who is on the college football fast track and build a team by recruiting highly rated players, some of which have a history of problems at previous schools, while showing the door to many of the current players on the roster. Winning at any cost is the name of the game.

He is willing to take the chance to go independent in order to gain national recognition by scheduling a few games against power schools and, hopefully, pulling some upsets while winning their other games by blowouts. The whole idea is betting that the power conferences will come calling if you win and talk loud enough while building a program with a lot of splash and talk of cash. Win big and talk loud and they will come...it will be interesting to see how this plays out.

The heat in the stadium is a major problem for the early season games. I don't know what the best solution to this problem is if there is one but east side is a oven on hot days and, even when they schedule games in the early evening, the sun is directly in the eyes of the fans on the east side. You see fans seeking out even tiny bit of shade they can find in the grass areas on hot evenings also.

The only solution that I can see is for games scheduled in late August through early October is later starts. 7 pm games would be inconvenient for some fans but at least it would be more tolerable than getting fried and safer for the players as well. Many Aggie fans will simply not show up if they know it's going to be unbearably hot in the stadium.

Chattanooga beat Loyola of Chicago 80-73 and will play Irvine for the NIT title at 6 pm on Thursday.

Irvine is a fun team to watch. They stayed composed even when they were down big in the first half. They are disciplined, confident and well coached. I sure hope they can bring the title home.

Irvine wins 69-67 and will play in the NIT championship game on Thursday.

Got me good too. The first thing I said when I saw the topic was, "You gotta be shittin' me!" :lol:

#1 seed UC Irvine vs #2 North Texas NIT Semi-final game today at 4 pm on ESPN.

Irvine is currently a 1.5 point underdog according to the oddsmakers.

PHOENIX — The Phoenix Police Department is not recommending charges for Shadow Mountain basketball coach and former NBA player Mike Bibby after a colleague accused him of sexual assault.

Police launched an investigation into Bibby in February after a Shadow Mountain teacher said he groped and rubbed his genitals on her in 2017.

"The investigation did not reveal probable cause to recommend charges against anyone in this case," Sgt. Vince Lewis with the Phoenix Police Department told 12 News Thursday.

Police took on the case the Monday after Bibby led the Phoenix high school boys' varsity basketball team to a state championship victory on Saturday, Feb. 23.

A lawyer representing the victim said the school was first notified of the alleged assault shortly after it happened but didn't do anything about it.

Paradise Valley Unified School District, however, says administrators "unequivocally had no knowledge and were not informed" of the alleged assault until Feb. 25, when police delivered a copy of the injunction against harassment.

Though, the school did say that administrators received a third-party tip and began to look into it earlier that month.

"I have a deep seeded concern that school officials and school district officials may have looked the other way knowing that they had this kind of problem on their hands," the woman's attorney Tom Ryan told 12 News in February.

Whole article here: https://www.12news.com/article/news/shadow-mountain-coach-former-nba-player-mike-bibby-wont-be-charged-in-sex-assault-case/75-05a135ff-9929-4c37-9fc7-e3a913908174

:rofl:

This was a great April Fools joke. The article seemed so authentic and well written. Sounded just like the kind of statements the universities would make. You got my wife and I good. Our jaws dropped nearly to the floor as I read the article to her. Good one, man! :lol:

The landscape is crazy. — LeFan

Charles Barkley believes that NIL is ruining college sports and I agree:

Barkley argued that when big-named schools with the most NIL money reel in the bulk of top prospects, parity In college sports will crumble.
"It's a travesty and a disgrace. I'm so mad now how we can mess up something that's so beautiful," Barkley said.

He added, "In the next three to five years, we're going to have 25 schools that's going to dominate the sports because they can afford players, and these schools who can't afford or won't pay players are going to be irrelevant."

https://www.outkick.com/sports/charles-barkley-bashes-nils-impact-on-college-sports-on-60-minutes

LA JOLLA, Calif. – UC San Diego Director of Athletics Earl W. Edwards has named Clint Allard '08 the new head men's basketball coach of the Tritons. Allard becomes the 13th head coach in program history, and the second at the Division I level. Allard will report to Edwards in his new role.

"I have the distinct privilege to announce Clint Allard as our next head men's basketball coach," said UC San Diego Director of Athletics Earl W. Edwards. "As an alumnus of our program, he knows what it means to be a Triton. His successes as our associate head coach were put on full display as we transitioned to Division I, won the Big West regular season and tournament titles, and competed on the national stage. His ability to recruit elite scholar-athletes, his coaching acumen, and his vision for continued success in this competitive climate make him the ideal candidate to lead our program into the future. I'm excited for the Coach Allard era to begin!"

https://ucsdtritons.com/news/2025/3/30/clint-allard-08-named-mens-basketball-head-coach.aspx

Thanks for the memories, Lan!