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(02-14-2019 11:45 AM)bearcatlawjd2 Wrote:  

(02-14-2019 11:22 AM)OKIcat Wrote:  

(02-14-2019 09:23 AM)Def Berkkat Wrote:  Xavier v. Creighton...

A bad game contested by two baaaaaad teams.

Saw in the box score attendance was reported to be 9,949. Bet it was far fewer for X to admit the house was under 10,000. I don't watch their games but I'm guessing many of their fans will be disguised as empty blue seats the rest of the season.

Reading a few comments from their fans, this year's decline of basketball fortunes has some worried. Much of the school's image in recent years has been built upon marketing the school through that exposure--a risky proposition. A sustained decline cuts deeper at a regional private university, both in revenue and national visibility.

While it may be short term, it appears the high flying new Big East expansion schools, X, Butler and Creighton, have all fallen back to earth this year.

Xavier hired the wrong coach. Program is going go through a downturn until they hit the eject button.

I'm not willing to definitively say they hired the wrong coach in year 1, BUT they certainly are due for a bad hire and so far so good.