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He belongs in a D3 league like the CCIW. He would do well at Carthage, Wheaton, Illinois Wesleyan or Millikin. I don't believe he would be dominant, but successful. NIL money? I have no clue.
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Because they truly understand "Fundamental Rights" /s
About 2% of the world cares about anything that professor have to say.
The vast majority of professors have never been to an basketball game in their entire careers.
If you‘re not much of a sports person, I doubt you’d understand the behavior.
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Where are my fellow loyaltyheads who believe the tweet is fake/a troll?
Retro62
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I would love to hear him go to an Ivy, get a Masters, and have that team go to the tourney.
Some people get easily baited by twitter
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Grad students in the Ivy can't play sports.
Retro62
- North Bethesda, Maryland
Well, you learn something new everyday. Thanks
So Loyola, Houston, and Arkansas were all under seeded and evaluating a season based on tournament results is a horrible way to judge a season.
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It is a terrible way to judge a season(IMO). Obviously, it's important, but you can't just throw the other 30 games out the window. This goes in both directions because it happened to UNC. Last year, they were completely average during the season, BUT, they got hot for 5 games. That resulted in a preseason AP #1 ranking this year. Looking back, what was truly there to put them at level? For 30 games, they were average. For 5 they were not. This year, for 30 games they were average. The tournament has defined teams/coaches and it's ridiculous. Hubert Davis, if it were not for 5 games...would have been on the hot seat because the other 60 were ignored.So Loyola, Houston, and Arkansas were all under seeded and evaluating a season based on tournament results is a horrible way to judge a season.
altgeld88
- Arlington, Virginia
I take your point and recall William F. Buckely's famous bon mot that he'd rather be governed by the first 50 names in the Boston phone book than a random selection of 50 Harvard professors.
Actually, however, lots of professors are fans and enjoy college sports. I speak from family experience, and also from having spent too much time in and around "higher" education. For example, one of the towering global figures in combustion research in UIUC's Mech Engr department was the most avid and informed Illini hoops fan I encountered while on campus. Many profs couldn't care less, of course, which is also true of the general population. One of my favorite Loyalty posters on the board is in fact a prof, of the hard science variety.
And then there are the two profs (I haven't bothered to look them up to see if they actually exist) who apparently wrote that haughty, semi-ridiculous email to Josh. I assume that they're not only pontificating but also might have personal projects to advance through such advocacy. Entrepreneurialism (even that of the malignant kind) thrives within the academy, particularly since the advent of social media has created a very effective personal broadcast vector. In addition, unfortunately, the past 30 years have changed the composition of liberal arts faculties dramatically in ways not particularly conducive to the cultivation of perspective and deep understanding of history and humanity, not to mention an understanding of how a coach effectively motivates certain players.
But that's a topic for a completely different thread (probably on a completely different site.)
The season is over save your hate for next year.So Loyola, Houston, and Arkansas were all under seeded and evaluating a season based on tournament results is a horrible way to judge a season.
ChiefGritty
- Chicago, IL
The cross pollination of academia, journalism, and professional politics and political advocacy on social media, especially Twitter, has created a new language and tone and manner of speech that has collapsed the distinction between those three separate professions, and is problematic and ineffective at all three of them.
Not really relevant to sports, except to the extent sports is also shouting into the same Twitter void in which everything can be said and nothing can be heard.
Are you an attorney???.....
Will have an interesting decision on his hands, but I really think he ends up coming back
altgeld88
- Arlington, Virginia
Spot on. The Venn diagram comprising those four pursuits are now simply concentric circles of varying diameter.I think he has enough ability to play in the MAC. He is fundamentally solid and his size will be a plus.
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