Quote:So.....Villanova and XU ....
Aren't reasonable facsimiles to UC.
I'm sorry, but the fact is dollars aren't what made either of them successful.
If cash inherently meant success in college basketball, Texas would have more championships than you could count.
Look at the coaches they've hired, look who they've recruited and look how much money they threw down a hole in the process.
Same with SEC schools that've gone nowhere, same with lesser ACC schools that have gone nowhere.
We're not a dinky little catholic school with a 4 digit enrollment. When football was still successful, people came out to see it. None of us complained, it drew crowds and money on a level Xavier basketball never could. I liked when we were kicking ass at football, I'd like to see us again at that point. But for ****'s sake, we're 61 and 11 the past two years. We just finished in the top 10 in the polls, we're sending a kid to the NBA and you people are still prattling on about football. At a certain point, you entitled, deluded, goofs, are going to have to face the fact that back when football had basically no relevance, UC basketball was still going one and done/two and through during the tournament. What about those years? Were we bad when we had the number 1 draft pick/best player in college basketball? No. And we aren't bad now. We lost by a basket, in 2012 we won by a basket and went to the second weekend. You know what the difference between those two years was? Luck. Dumb luck.
If you want to make a change in staff, fine. But to pretend that spending on football and facilities has **** all to do with our success is so pedantic, so myopic a perspective; that it leads me to believe some of you don't know anything about college basketball at all.