It’s late on a Friday afternoon, and that’s the question that keeps going through my mind, and I’d wager it’s going through the minds of Hofstra fans. Jack Hayes, too. Does Welsh keep his job? Is it Jack Hayes’s call? If not Welsh, where do they turn next? What about the assistants, who have been [...]
WELSH UPDATE: Per Melissa Connolly, VP of University Relations: “We have learned through media reports of the charges against Mr. Welsh. Effective Immediately, he has been suspended without pay, while the University investigates the charges against him.” *** Details will continue to emerge, but new Hofstra coach Tim Welsh was pulled over last night, failed [...]
That Andy Katz seemingly innocuous blog footnote of April 1 is becoming smarter and more significant every day. It also shows his lack of understanding of the mid major world. Yesterday we gave Katz credit for his prescience in what would happen with expansion, and his view on regular season impact. Today, he gets more [...]
Way back on April 1, Andy Katz wrote something that was far less foolish and far more premonitory: I’m now starting to believe 96 will happen but more likely in 2014 than in 2011, that’s when there is a new television contract with either CBS or a different partner. This would allow the television and [...]
Mark today on your calendars: April 26. We’ve reached a point I don’t know we’ve seen since last September. Possibly longer. Thanks to a protracted postseason, a 79-day coaching search, and Halil Kaneceivc, it took until today to have a slow news day in the CAA. Granted it’s only 9am so you never know what [...]
We have a full day today: meetings, news, and gutters to clean before the rain. Apologies for the brevity. We’ll open with the news that Halil Kanecevic, who made the CAA All Freshman team from Hofstra, has chosen to transfer. He asked and was given his release. No word on his destination. Everybody else is [...]
Outside of time constraints–because none of you have suddenly and miraculously produced $435K for me I have a real job that takes precedence–the most difficult part about this blog is jumping in and out of having fun. (See what I did there?) Seriously, it’s just college basketball. Nobody’s safety is on the line. This is [...]
This is Part 4 in our springtime series on “The Future of the CAA.” Part one dealt with escalating coaching salaries. Part 2 addressed the role of the conference in marketing its programs, where the money comes from, and the downstream affects of a member institution’s investment in its men’s basketball program. Part three discussed [...]
The text messages began piling up Friday morning, just as I was finishing packing the car for a weekend beach trip. The UNCW coaching search, which never earned an official nickname but was justifiably ridiculed, was over. Buzz Peterson signed a five year deal with the school and the presser was at 4:30pm. And while [...]
I didn’t expect the response I received from yesterday’s post, so thank you. One item that is very important in all of this that I did not make clear and should have: the A10 dismemberment is the linchpin for the entire discussion. There’s a combination of the Big Ten/Big East/whomever in there somewhere, but the [...]
