Most of the criticism I hear is about the A10 having a few schools that have HS gyms and give no priority to winning basketball. Secondly, it is harder to recruit kids to a lesser perceived league and from areas away from the leagues small geographic footprint. Thirdly, and the biggest reason, the scheduling conditions have changed.
I am a huge fan of the women's BB program, but I could care less about winning the A10, when we all complain about the weak competition. UConn will pick us up in the talent we recruit.
To judge the quality of the UD men's program by the results this year is not fair, when we have been competitive on a national level for the last 4. One could argue that the results this year were caused by the weakness of our conference. Would we have lost two recruits to the PAC12? Would Archie have left? Would we have taken the likes of Pierce, Miller and Svoboda.
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