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The smaller ball has been what has improved the women's game. Lowering the basket would take away some credibility from the game.

If someone came in from the administration, sometimes the "evaluation" can be a real good thing. If any of the rumored issues mentioned by Bird, have any legs, then clearing the air can be a huge help....to everyone involved. With Yori's excellent track record, and many years with NU, no doubt she would be given every courtesy to clear/clean things up....or at least to simply discuss and refocus the program. Which is good in any work/job experience. Divorce can be devastating. It truly is, so all of the help NU can give, foremost...will help Connie and family. I too, have a friend that has some knowledge of the going's on at least in men's football & Bball...see if he's aware of anything...at least of any significance.

I already had forgotten. Those that have left.....they're gone...we've moved on. We just need to stay healthy and get everyone on the floor.

I REALLY like your last paragraph. I say it makes NCAA men's basketball worse overall...kind of disjointed and weird in the post season. I say do away with the "other" 3 tournaments and I'd do something really radical like...give the top 32 teams a bye and then seed 128 other teams and play it down. It would be really really cool and not to mention awesome. It would give many programs a really cool opportunity to be a part of something big. Some wouldn't like these programs from little conferences knocking off major conference teams in the first and second round. I know most feel this would water down the tournament and the importance of the regular season, I totally disagree. Maybe in that first round, you give home games to the higher seeds. I so wish this could happen. Another bi-product of this would be that ALL the teams and conferences would be followed throughout the season....much more so anyway. Again it would make for a more cohesive NCAA mens Div 1 product.

The rumors aren't directly basketball related. They have nothing to do with this year's record; Any discussion of a coaching change based on on the court performance would be absurd. Basketball-wise there is a long history of extraordinary success for this program. We have the freshman player of the year in the league and a highly ranked incoming class. There is nothing there basketball wise to discuss. If the record we had this year (nearly 20 wins and a .500 record in the league; not exactly a disaster) after losing 4 senior starters and then half the team to injury has people calling it a tough year creating a rumor mill, our fan base has become spoiled beyond belief. I don't whether any rumors flying around are true, but I assure you if something happens it will have nothing to do with the past season, on the court performance in games, or recruiting. B.I.N.G.O. I have heard, again rumors only like all of them, that it has to do, to some extent anyway, with the way Yori treated her players, especially during practice. It is my understanding that at least someone in administration was at many practices this year to observe. Why? who really knows but, if true, adds intrigue to all of this. May have to do with Yori's divorce of her husband, and/or other personal things, but that in and of itself would not/should not have been a major factor. IF these rumors have legs, I would say it must have something to do more with treatment of players and staff than anything outside (unless something outside was of the illegal nature which I truly doubt). Dirk may be able, but probably shouldn't, shed some light of this rumor. So which it, is it a basketball issue or as HB state's a non basketball issue. Or maybe none of us outsiders know what the hell is going on, which would be the more likely scenario.

I think that after this next class gets here and starts play we will all forget about Chandler Smith.

I want a PF Flyer contract! Imagine the advantages if our players could run faster and jump higher!

Can this board be the good board that understands that a 33" two foot standing vertical is very good? Unlike the RSS where they can't read and don't understand testing.

Seems the strike zone is a bit wider today.

First of all, I don't doubt that we have a lot of hard working players on our team. Here's what I don't understand. If Jacobson is scoring 1,542, and a 1,500 is considered a high A grade (per Wilson), then shouldn't he be dominating other players in the Big Ten? Since he didn't, does that mean the players he played against would get a A+++ grade (or some superlative grade)? I think it's established that these guys have put in a lot of time and effort into improving themselves. But I guess I didn't see a lot of freakishly athletic folks on the floor this past winter.