I feel really happy for all the former Temple recruits that just won a National Championship. They made the right choice to attend a program that does whatever it takes to win. The recruits, the University and the fans deserve all the accolades for not only what they just accomplished, but more importantly for further exploiting the gross incompetence of our Basketball staff, BOT and Athletic Department.
It absolutely killed me to give up my Temple Basketball season tickets I held for 17 years a couple years ago, but it was the right decision. I simply will no longer support a program that is not doing everything they can to win.
If our Athletic Department is not savvy enough to know all if the recruits we lost to Nova, how we have been out recruited by the like of St. Joe's and Lasalle, how we offered scholarships to kids like Kyle Green and TJ Dileo, how a kid like Ryan Brooks was considered a good player for us......than I really can't expect a change anytime soon. It has just become too frustrating knowing more than they do.
I mean, can you possibly imagine any big-time program not only hiring an Ivy League Coach, but allowing him to bring an entire Ivy League Staff, none of which had ever offered a scholarship in their entire career??? Well not only was that scenario permitted here but it was embraced. We all know it happened in the watch of another Athletic Staff, but this athletic staff presumably was savvy enough to know the details of that insanity, observe the tournement record and the level of recruit and still extended the contract?!?!
None of it makes sense to me. None of it, and as such, I won't be affiliated with it. It's just too frustrating. I hope one day to not have a BOT made of of Villanova grads and people that are Trustees for other Universities. Perhaps one day we will have a Chairman of our BOT that doesn't give more money to Villanova and Penn State than he gives Temple. Then and only then will we see a pattern of change.....
It absolutely killed me to give up my Temple Basketball season tickets I held for 17 years a couple years ago, but it was the right decision. I simply will no longer support a program that is not doing everything they can to win.
If our Athletic Department is not savvy enough to know all if the recruits we lost to Nova, how we have been out recruited by the like of St. Joe's and Lasalle, how we offered scholarships to kids like Kyle Green and TJ Dileo, how a kid like Ryan Brooks was considered a good player for us......than I really can't expect a change anytime soon. It has just become too frustrating knowing more than they do.
I mean, can you possibly imagine any big-time program not only hiring an Ivy League Coach, but allowing him to bring an entire Ivy League Staff, none of which had ever offered a scholarship in their entire career??? Well not only was that scenario permitted here but it was embraced. We all know it happened in the watch of another Athletic Staff, but this athletic staff presumably was savvy enough to know the details of that insanity, observe the tournement record and the level of recruit and still extended the contract?!?!
None of it makes sense to me. None of it, and as such, I won't be affiliated with it. It's just too frustrating. I hope one day to not have a BOT made of of Villanova grads and people that are Trustees for other Universities. Perhaps one day we will have a Chairman of our BOT that doesn't give more money to Villanova and Penn State than he gives Temple. Then and only then will we see a pattern of change.....
