Hmmm. I don’t know what your boss meant, but I meant to compliment you on your cleverness – pour, cup runneth over. I also meant to type “clever play on words” and not “cleaver play on words.” I probably should have just had the intentions and skipped the whole typing part. Never mind, let’s move along, nothing to see here.

That reminds me of a comment one of my bosses once said to me, “hey you know…you’re much more effective the less you say”. I bit my tongue partially confused and walked away.

Ah, darn, N71. I thought your “pour” was a cleaver play on words to go with your cup runneth over comment.

poor not pour…damn it.

Bigger does not imply better… we have brand new, state of the art training facilities for our team that they have unlimited access to. It is a point of emphasis Crean uses in recruiting as is evident in many of the recruiting interviews.

As pour as they are in basketball tradition their cup runneth over in football so don’t feel too sorry for them. I don’t mind a couple Washington Generals for our Globe Trotting Hoosiers. Illinois will be back in 3 years, Wisconsin is good every year now, Penn State is working its way upward, etc. Someone needs to finish last, might as well be Nebraska.

Actually, it’s not the same. While IU does have nice facilities, they’re still not on par with an OSU/LSU/Alabama/PSU/Neb. On the other hand, Nebraska’s basketball facilities are comparable to our own or absolutely any in the nation. With Nebraska’s football money they can match any program in the country for basketball facilities. Basketball doesn’t make nearly as much as football does, so IU wasn’t able to build competing facilities in the sport they lagged behind like Nebraska. IIRC OSU has already built a weight room bigger than ours, so we no longer have the biggest in the nation.

It’s a good point about football facilities and I have no idea what the state of them is. Maybe they do both sports in the same building, a la the NEZ at Memorial Stadium.

But the football product there will be at the very low end of the projections made for it after the NCAA hammered them…I’m actually surprised at how nobody in the media has fully described the disastrous effect of the scholarship restrictions in combination with the rule allowing transfers w/out the 1-year penalty…and 10+ years is a long time for an AD’s job security these days. I mean, I’ll be just absolutely shocked if Penn State is not a bottom-tier program in the B10 in the Year 2022.

So, when the AD looks around for a way to keep the overall program relevant, what else is there but to make a play for men’s basketball?

Not sure if Penn State’s basketball team will get any kind of upgrade since they’re likely to have to spend tons of money to renovate the football facilities to erase the memories of Jerry Sandusky. Kind of sad that the program that had nothing to do with the problem will be the one to get screwed but you know they aren’t going to allow that football program to flounder any longer than possible.

Now that Northwestern is truly respectable in football, I’ll believe anything is possible when it comes to program revival. But, wow, something has to give in the Big Ten. It’s getting back to where it was in the late-70’s through early-90’s in terms of great teams at the top, but the overall depth is even greater than it was back then, imho. Plus, you have to wonder if Penn State will not make a facilities play like Nebraska did…men’s basketball may be their only chance to field a headline-making (and alumni-satisfying) team until at least the middle of the next decade.