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We rank 14th and Nebraska and Penn State rank below us. UCLA ranks #2 and USC #3 So there is no correlation between Alumni distance from football venue and attendance.

Have you been to Memorial Stadium in the past 2 years? There has been quite a bit of renovation. With less than 60,000 of average attendance - spending over $100mm to upgrade seated (and one side of Memorial Stadium has been upgraded in the past 20 years) has a negative return on investment...

You are correct about the 2024 KenPom D- rating. I misread - my bad But I think you are missing the point. KenPom is the most "bet against" rating in sports. Meaning - it is the least predictive statistical indicator in the history of sports. Having the best KenPom rating in anything - cannot...

I'm confused - Michigan the first team to have the top KenPom defense rating to win the NCAA championship. The Kenpom ratings don't actually determine anything and certainly do not determine game winning Pct. and tournament advancement rate. Michigan ranked 7th in Team Defensive Efficiency...

What Brad has been saying for the past 5 years is that "95% of my job is roster management." The players have eligibility for sale to the highest bidder with no constraints.

Understood - but let's not rewrite the history books

Hear you - but I think you were referring to sports reporters not camera men (side line aspects) and I stand by what his former players remember him as. What was acceptable in the '60s and '70s is not acceptable today. But I don't see any of his former players calling him abusive.

Don't kid yourself, none of the coaches you mention were as demonstrative as Woody on the sidelines. But they were definitely as defiant with referees, just not as boisterous. As for Woody being abusive of his players or assistants, that's not way most of his former players tell the story. You...

I agree with everything you say, with one exception. We can't get 62,000 people to the games. Not yet, anyway.

Most of the large contributors to any University would understand the return on capital. In the Mike White years - we not only sold out 75% of our games (with 72,000 people) - there were people who watched the non - televised games on closed circuit. Why would there be any investment in...

Exactly! - clearly sightlines would be improved (and then true reconstruction could take place if the playing surface and sidelines were lowered by 12' - 15' as they did in several other college stadiums over the past 30 years to better deploy the square footage where running track once was...

Jim Hart - Niles West. Larry Wilson, fantastic football player. Mel Gray, Jim Otis (even if he did go to OSU), Roger Wehrli, Don Coryell. That was some team.

It appears to me that how a team performs in the post season (and Scheyer's teams have performed well in every post season he has been the HC at Duke) define success. Two points which prove that: (1) Hubert Davis - 1 league title, 1 sweet 16 and 1 National Championship runner up. Lose to VCU in...

Well, Scheyer has been more successful in his first 4 years than coach K was is in last 4 years. And given the players Scheyer recruits - I don't see Duke dropping anytime soon. I am uncertain where you get your hyperbole, but going to three elite 8's, a final 4, winning an ACC tournament and 2...

When .832 win pct in both the ACC and Overall - three trips to the elite eight (one to the FF) and two regular season conference championships and one ACC tournament title in 4 years becomes "underachieving" please do let all of us know!