Re: DePaul Attendance Hits 37 Year Low
Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2017 8:16 am
GoldenWarrior11 wrote:Demon22 wrote:MUBoxer wrote:Exactly what was the hypocritical part?
You don't think it's hypocritical to question DePaul's commitment to basketball when your school has never, ever made the kind of financial investment in basketball that DePaul has in Wintrust Arena?
I mean, if you want to call DePaul stupid, incompetent, loyal to a fault, or anything else along those lines, then I'm right there with you. But not committed? Seriously? In the last 10 years, they've spent ridiculous, stupid amounts of money to lure Oliver Purnell away from Clemson, and they've built a freakin' basketball arena. How on Earth is that not committed? Say what you want about the program and the people in charge of it, but they've put their money where their mouths are.
But this is GoldenWarrior11's MO when it comes to DePaul. Spend 90% of his post rehashing how bad the team is, and then say they're not committed. It's lazy and it's not even remotely accurate. And coming from a fan of a school who seems content to allow Wisconsin taxpayers to pick up a larger tab for their new building than the entire cost of Wintrust Arena, it's more than a little hypocritical.
Uh... Marquette spent $31 million in on the Al McGuire Center in 2002 - a basketball only complex. Marquette is now spending at least, not officially reported, $80 million on a brand new athletics facility on campus (the other $30 million is from Aurora Health Care). Marquette consistently has one of the top basketball budgets in the country, including use of a private jet for recruiting for the coaching staff. My schools not only spends money, it knows how to spend money. What exactly is hypocritical?
Their incompetence, nepotism and stupidity prove that. Their repeated failures in hiring failing coaches prove that. Their insistence on keeping a player's parent on staff for a new coach proves that. Their mandate that they keep relatives on the team of athletic department personnel prove that. Their sham interview process in hiring Leitao, one in which a search firm they paid and utilized for (a former head coach), shows that. The ultimate showing of why DePaul doesn't care about men's basketball? JLP reading off the pillars of the men's program at Leitao's introductory press conference - AND WINNING WASN'T MENTIONED ONCE. DePaul is not committed to a winning men's basketball program, period.
Explain to me how DePaul, at present, is any different from Temple Football from 1991-2004 in the Big East? Temple finished last in the conference year-in and year-out. Their attendance was atrocious. They consistently had 0, 1 or 2 conferences wins every year. They ended up getting kicked out of the conference. In a conference driven by the success of men's basketball, why should nine schools accept that one won't do what is necessary and get rid of the individuals responsible for practically stealing money from the conference and accepting failure every year?
While I agree with you about everything you said you also have to remember that someone needs to lose. Personally I'm happy that the consistent loser still have a top 30 all time tradition. Given media markets and balancing out the east and Midwest who would you replace them with? Your options are Loyola or somehow stealing northwestern. One is even worse than DePaul and the other would be super expensive and (as of now) still have not made the NCAA tournament