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ed odowd said:

Give it a rest sorry I hit a sensitive nerve you just proved my point.If gold star families don’t matter more than politicians you like you are the guy who has a problem.Check please

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this doesn't even make sense, but you're real proud of yourself. go back and address either of the points. check please!! lol

HALL85 said:

Being a major college president today is really not as attractive as it used to be. Beholden to athletic directors and coaches, dealing with all the nonsense protests, safe spaces and snowflake behavior.

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Also the Rutgers strike where he threatened to go to court and get an injunction, only to get undercut and undermined by Murphy at the 11th hour.

MBF72 said:

Surprised that Fordham (A-10) and not NJIT or Wagner would consent to play at Historic Walsh.

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Fordham is desperate. And they play in a similar gym.

Well, after about 50 days, they finally put up a page on her website about her policies. Took them long enough.


Edited to add: Nothing new here, as far as I can tell. This is low effort, they have to do better than this.

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Surprised that Fordham (A-10) and not NJIT or Wagner would consent to play at Historic Walsh.

cernjSHU said:

The Axios article was about urban metro areas where most of the highest per capita homicides are still in the south. So, your point is that if you live in a city that is where the gun deaths. You don't care about state laws which of course are direct impact on the cities.

If the urban cities in the states with the most restrictive gun laws have a less per capita rate than the cities in the State with the lease restrictive gun law, but you see no correlation? Of course, the State impacts on the cities within that State.

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Fair enough. And do those states have more consequences for criminals too?

HALL85 said:

I never moved the goalposts. I pointed out the urban gun violence in my original posts and stats that supported that. You’re making it about state stats now….moving the goalposts.

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The Axios article was about urban metro areas where most of the highest per capita homicides are still in the south. So, your point is that if you live in a city that is where the gun deaths. You don't care about state laws which of course are direct impact on the cities.

If the urban cities in the states with the most restrictive gun laws have a less per capita rate than the cities in the State with the lease restrictive gun law, but you see no correlation? Of course, the State impacts on the cities within that State.

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SOBO1 said:

For what it’s worth, Fanta said several months ago teams in BigEast are now spending $4M/year on payroll.

Obviously not all have the means to do that but it’s obvious based on all the data points that the top half of the league is all $3M+ in payroll

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The majority of the BE can do that $4-5M per year without much of a problem. It's only a challenge for us, Butler and DePaul.

To most schools, they have much larger endowments and much better alumni giving. NIL is just a reallocation of those donations. No need to constantly spend on athletic facilities, NIL is the new arms race.

I think it will continue out of control until the big lawsuits are settled and the NCAA finally takes control of the situation and establishes rules. Its chaos right now. Reading the Times article and the piece over the Summer in The Athletic, no one is abiding by rules and major tampering is taking place in December and January. Kadary's case wasn't unique, it was the norm.

cernjSHU said:

You keep moving the goalposts. But I will play along.

https://www.axios.com/2023/10/16/america-gun-deaths-crime-south Amazing most are in the south once again with the most permissive gun laws

Now, I have stated what legislation the must be instituted to actually put a dent in gun violence. But no one is going to put it into effect. I

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I never moved the goalposts. I pointed out the urban gun violence in my original posts and stats that supported that. You’re making it about state stats now….moving the goalposts.

HALL85 said:

The link I posted had stats of metro and non-metro deaths with metro about 85%. The other link stated most gun homicides were in urban areas.

State stats are a bit misleading also. Texas has one of the highest rates, but 62% are suicides, and the cities account for most of homicides. Black deaths 5:1 over other races. If you want to propose legislation there, suggest something that’s going to move the needle.

https://www.click2houston.com/news/...is-county-ahead-of-nra-convention-in-houston/

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You keep moving the goalposts. But I will play along.

https://www.axios.com/2023/10/16/america-gun-deaths-crime-south Amazing most are in the south once again with the most permissive gun laws

Now, I have stated what legislation the must be instituted to actually put a dent in gun violence. But no one is going to put it into effect. I

cernjSHU said:

Doesn't change much. I don't see where your stats are coming from.

On gun violence, the United States is an outlier | Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

When we look exclusively at high-income countries and territories with populations of 10 million or more, the US ranks first for its high levels of gun violence.

www.healthdata.org

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The link I posted had stats of metro and non-metro deaths with metro about 85%. The other link stated most gun homicides were in urban areas.

State stats are a bit misleading also. Texas has one of the highest rates, but 62% are suicides, and the cities account for most of homicides. Black deaths 5:1 over other races. If you want to propose legislation there, suggest something that’s going to move the needle.

https://www.click2houston.com/news/...is-county-ahead-of-nra-convention-in-houston/

For what it’s worth, Fanta said several months ago teams in BigEast are now spending $4M/year on payroll.

Obviously not all have the means to do that but it’s obvious based on all the data points that the top half of the league is all $3M+ in payroll

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radecicco said:

Agree, but once those players start to develop, we’re going to have to pay them to keep them for two or more years.

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Or getting higher ranked players who lost their shine after a year or two. Look at this years roster.

I also don’t know if most of the Big East has or can keep up with that projected number. Even for programs with strong NIL support already in place, there has to be a limit on what someone wants to pay out of their hard earned money for college kids to play basketball. I get if you are a billionaire with all sorts of disposable income, but for the average fan that gets hit up constantly for this stuff I can see it becoming really hard to justify when one has so many other financial obligations or causes they can support.

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Seton75 said:

I wonder how xu advertising in ohio compares with osu? Just curious.

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No clue. Although RU ain’t OSU, lol. You get off that airport in Columbus and within 5 seconds you see what team college or professional runs that state. It is dead red everywhere.

I’ve seen a bunch of Xavier hoops social media online stuff that populates on my YouTube page. So it must have some reach. Sean Miller does one on one spots often with their social media people and they also have player profiles that are pretty long. Think of segments like that “Kooks Corner” spot many of you were falling all over last year, but longer and better.

HALL85 said:

I believe those statistics lump suicide, homicide, accidental together. The link I shared earlier points to homicide rates higher in California, New York and Texas.

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Doesn't change much. I don't see where your stats are coming from.

HallX2 said:

We won’t be able to fund that year in and year out and there aren’t enough players who deserve those payouts. So our future will continue to depend on coaching up the proverbial 3 star players. Those players are much lower down the financial ladder. Not saying it will be easy.

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Agree, but once those players start to develop, we’re going to have to pay them to keep them for two or more years.

We won’t be able to fund that year in and year out and there aren’t enough players who deserve those payouts. So our future will continue to depend on coaching up the proverbial 3 star players. Those players are much lower down the financial ladder. Not saying it will be easy.