Conference strength

This came up in the other thread but deserves its own. I checked kenpom last night, which has historic rankings (going back to '02) not just of individual teams but of conferences. These are objective rankings, not the largely subjective impressions of the wire polls.

The bottom line is that the strength of the Horizon League is tanking in relation to other leagues. For most of that period it was in the low teens. The high water mark (again, this is relative to the other 31 conferences) was 10th in 2011. Last year it fell to 16th, the lowest it had ever been. THIS year it's at 20! At this point it's an open question whether the H League will even stay a mid-major league. It is trending towards low major status. Remember when we looked down our noses at the Summit? It has leapfrogged the Horizon.

So that's where we are. Our current administration ripped our program apart so badly that it will be lucky to be competitive in the worst H League since Bruce first came to Milwaukee.

And oh by the way -- when the Horizon hit its high water mark of 10th among all the conferences in 2011? The halcyon days when Butler and Cleveland State and Valpo and Detroit and Green Bay were all tough? Yeah, Rob Jeter and his staff and their recruits won the conference championship that year. Only a year later our next "new AD!" set the program reeling by deciding to send it back to the high school gym.