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BREAKING: Butler AD Barry Collier will announce his retirement today, effective April 2024. Everything about the Butler Way, the little engine that could, the national title games, the enormous profile. It all started with Barry. A legend in state athletics.

It was an amazing story how much Butler accomplished, with much of it happening while a member of the Horizon League. Butler has always been an easy team to root for.

Is Butler still a conference member?

LMAO. Frauds from the beginning that lucked out on a flash in the pan era of Brad Stevens....

I’m sure he’s a nice guy and is a butler legend, but around here, he will always be known as a complete failure of a coach when he was in Lincoln, coaching the huskers.

He was also a complete loser when at Nebraska he proposed that they stop playing Creighton on an annual basis- he said we hurt their RPI. What a joke. I spoke with a person at the very top of both programs and he said "don't worry, that will never happen". Still showed his character or lack thereof. Brad Stevens made/built that program.

Brad Stevens did not build the program. He took it to new heights. Barry Collier's ancillary coaching tree includes Thad Matta, Chris Holtmann, Brad Stevens, Scott Drew, and others. He took Nebraska's money - compared to MCC level Butler, I'd have taken it too. It was a no-win situation there.

Collier took a school that had fallen on decades of irrelevance and started winning again. Then took them from the Horizon to the Big East as AD.

Read the f*cking story and actually learn something rather than spouting bs. Then again, maybe Creighton and _avier fans can't read?

butlerguy03 wrote:Brad Stevens did not build the program. He took it to new heights. Barry Collier's ancillary coaching tree includes Thad Matta, Chris Holtmann, Brad Stevens, Scott Drew, and others. He took Nebraska's money - compared to MCC level Butler, I'd have taken it too. It was a no-win situation there.

Collier took a school that had fallen on decades of irrelevance and started winning again. Then took them from the Horizon to the Big East as AD.

Read the f*cking story and actually learn something rather than spouting bs. Then again, maybe Creighton and _avier fans can't read?

It seems that some of us Creighton fans are still on the learning curve when it come to handling success with dignity and humility. Hopefully they can catch on soon or at least keep that crap over on BJU.

I don't think any Creighton fan was disparaging what he has done at Butler. Only what he did at Nebraska. It would be the same if Dana Alman took the Notre Dame job and said that playing Butler was beneath them and Butler should play in South Bend every year. You might have a little disdain for him, no? He did great for Butler and at least most Creighton fans wouldn't try to dispute that.

Macscratcher is a troll looking to start fights. Ignore him