[NU Sports] BB Coaching Change? (fwd)

[mlinhardt at netzero.net]

As a FBC member I know Bienen is a big basketball person.  It is often 
mentioned how he played pick-up games with and against Carmody at 
Princeton.  If anything football is theoretically getting the short-
shrift from this presidency.  Note:  I said theoretically.

We have mutliple problems many of which are chicken-egg situation:
* Low fan turnout for all sports.  Football games vs. premier 
opponents don't produce big overwhelmly partisan crowds and if the 
opponent is not premier the stands are half-empty.  This hurts 
recruiting as recruits(basketball, football, etc.) see the empty 
stands or the maize-blue/scarlet-gray/red-white of the opposing fans.
* Lack of winning tradition.

Resolve fan turnout and/or winning tradition and recruiting would 
improve in basketball and football.
OR
Improve recruiting and that would resolve the fan support and/or 
winning tradition.


I don't mind seeing opposing fans on the east side of Dyche.  
Sacrilege?  No.  As a fan I love the friendly confrontational 
atmosphere that makes a stadium electric.  Nothing is worse than 
Michigan stadium where there are 111K bored/boring fans.  Note:  I 
hate to see opposing fans on the West side of the stadium.

As for basketball I have already moved on to football.  We will be at 
the FBC reception and game on Saturday, but harping about the 
basketball woes only makes me depressed.

-- Jim Leonard's friend wrote:
IMO, the root of our problem is a 60 year or so background of 
administrations that don’t have sufficient interest in basketball. 
They have not and will not provide the things a good program needs, 
like better facilities and the funds to let a good coach hire top 
assistants and keep them.
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