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That and with another year of Bill Courtney guess next year will be an even worse year for Cornell sports

I was rooting for Albany. Cant root for Syrcause after that 09 title game. Can't root for any of the teams in the final 4, its like a presidential election, have to pick the team dislike less. In a year this bad for Cornell sports, there is nothing left but to root against someone

Well on the bright side, no Final 4 for Syracuse

I think he should get another year but there is no comparision with Saban. It doesnt matter what we think anyway, too patient Andy didnt let Bill Courtney go, Kerwick's here for another 5 years either way as long as Andy is still in charge

Are we going to lose by 20? A fitting end to a lousy sports season, good work Andy

Who cares about football, cant go to the playoffs

http://www.californiagoldenblogs.com/2015/3/28/8305587/cal-marquette-uconn-michigan-illinois-boston-college-basketball-shonn-miller

https://mobile.twitter.com/jeffborzello/status/581806055606390784

Miller getting heavily recruited by Mich St, UConn, Marquette, Cal, BC, Mich, Illinois, just to name a few of 30 schools. Good for him, hope he lands on a NCAA tournament team next year. Has to be the dumbest Ivy league rule that grad students cannot play sports, its anti academics if anything

http://www.leftydriesell.com/

He also was nominated for national defensive player of the year

I would think a new coach might cost less as they will likely have less experience than Courtney. Frequent losing is one thing, not trying to start winning is another. After that Sweet 16 run you would think Men's BB would be more of a priority, no other sport at our level provides that national exposure

Quote from: http://cornellbball.proboards.com/post/22022/threadI believe it is neither. IMO, Andy extended Bill when the program appeared to be moving in the right direction, but now it is clear it is not.

I don't have any details. I am just told that there is a very small inner circle that is involved. Bill will be back next year and from what I am told, next year is the last year absent a demonstration the program is moving forward.

My hunch is that a one year extension was probably given early this season.

Can only hope this is true as we should be horrible next year losing Miller, Cancer, Cherry. We would be horrible no matter who the next coach is so as was said before it may work out well since new coach wont be stuck with that rough year on his resume. Problem then is Andy needs to hire a better coach than before when the program is at a much worse position than it was 5 years ago. Too bad Spiker probably wont be available, hurts to think where we would be if that Army job didnt open late fall 2009, Spiker would have been the no brainer replacement for Donahue

Courtney has recruited more athletic guys than Donahue ever did but while occasionally they make amazing plays they are often inconsistent/undisciplined. He never really implemented his "system"

Annoyed seeing these "Giving Day" emails go out while Andy doesnt do his job and fire Courtney

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Quote from: CASSteve Donahue to be next Penn coach.  Discuss amongst yourselves.

Far from a shock. Where he wanted to be years ago.

Exactly. He wanted Philadelphia (he grew up, went to Ursinus in the suburbs), he wanted a Catholic school. Penn is one out of two. He could finish his career there. Be nice to have another Ivy be competitive again. Donahue's ideal job would be Villanova but Jay Wright has been there since 2001, since 2005 has advanced in the NCAAs most every year and if Wright hasn't succumbed to bigger money after FF and Elite 8 rounds, why would he leave now at 53 ... and why would Donahue get the Villanova job after not moving BC up the ladder? We ought to wish him well, except twice a year.

Count me as a group of 1 that has doubts he well be Penn's return to glory. It should be easier than at Cornell, and probably easier than BC. However I'm still doubting, we'll see.

He cant do worse than Allen did, they'll at least be more competitive and probably compete for the league title in a few years. I dont think they will return to the absolute dominance their alumni except as Harvard and Amaker arent going anywhere and more teams in the league have started to care since our sweet 16 run. It is just tough to see Donahue go there while we spin in circles

Can it get any worse for Cornell basketball, are you alive Andy? Wow that was fast, never thought Donahue would go back there

http://www.espnithaca.com/common/page.php?id=4391

Quote from: http://www.thedp.com/blog/buzz/2015/03/cornell-coach-bill-courtney-on-penn-hiring-steve-donahueAnd we had an idea that we'd be a lot better this year and we'd have a chance to compete in our league and we were able to do that. We'd have liked to have won some more games but we knew we'd be able to compete and we certainly feel that our program is heading in the right direction and we're on our way up.

Courtney is out there giving delusional interviews so I guess he is back, what a joke, 5-9 in conference is not competing. Next year with no Miller they will be lucky to get 10 wins

Harvard-UNC wasnt setup by accident, Amaker (Duke) vs UNC, I bet he will be calling Coach K. And Yale is the NIT snub, what a week for them

Harvard wins playoff 53-51, Yale misses tip in at the buzzer, tough to be Yale, bad luck to Harvard in the tournament

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Quote from: CASThe author of the Cornell BB Blog wrote today, "Haven't felt this helpless despair following Cornell MBB since Al Walker era" - early-mid '90's.

that guy kept defending Courtney to no end, even when it was clear during his first season that he flat out couldn't coach

Yeah cant believe he has seen the light yet somehow Andy has not