(05-30-2012 07:19 PM)bucfan81 Wrote:  

(05-30-2012 03:55 PM)LetsgoBucs Wrote:  This is an article that lays out Davidson's options when looking at moving to the CAA - continue to be the big fish in a little pond or try to elevate their profile by moving to a bigger league. I think Davidson should stay put.

I also thought these quotes were interesting and applicable to much of the back and forth on this board -

"Here's why it's so tough, from a basketball standpoint: Davidson is the "name" program of the SoCon, but the SoCon has never sent an at-large team to the NCAA tournament. Not even in 1995-96, when the Wildcats went 14-0 in conference and 25-5 overall. Not even in 2008-09, Curry's final college season, when they went 18-2 in league play and 27-8 overall, and the general public was clamoring to see Steph back in the bracket. If you don't win the SoCon tournament, you're not getting in the NCAAs -- and even when you do, your seed ceiling seems to be at 13*.

(*Yes, the '07-08 Curry team earned a No. 10, but as McKillop said, having a Lottery Pick on the roster was a "once-in-a-lifetime" scenario. The great, non-Curry squads topped out at 13.)"

"You have to ask yourself, how do you get that at-large bid?" McKillop said. "Do you depend on a conference to be the platform for it, or do you roll up your sleeves like Gonzaga did and create the kind of schedule that gives you the opportunity for not just an [at-large] bid, but for a high seed as well? Gonzaga, to me, is a tremendous story about a team elevating the status of a conference."

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/wr...ndex.html?

Yes Davidson should follow the lead of ETSU. They should promote their tennis coach to athletic director. Then spend most of their budget on only minor sports and never worry about winning at football, basketball or baseball again. Wonder why they are not doing that?

Or, why is ETSU the only Division I state regional university in the nation to be doing this since 2003? Really makes us look stupid