I guess until the University decides to take basketball seriously, this is what we will experience.

What will forever baffle me is how University Administrators can be so ignorant about the impact of athletics on their school. Either they are all egg heads who cannot fathom that sports is more popular in the general public than, say, a great debate team, or they do know but still don't care because prioritizing athletics in any way will make them persona non grata at the cocktail parties populated buy the Ivory Tower Elites.

Nothing publicizes a school more than winning in sports. Would Duke be a household name without basketball? An even better and more relevant example is Gonzaga.

Yet we still get stuck with Chancellors (with the lone exception of Zimpher, oh how I miss her) who think that the public at large has great interest in things like new academic programs and such, and look down their noses at athletics.

Sometimes I wish I would have gone to a school that took sports seriously so I wouldn't live with the constant frustration of a program doomed to mediocrity.