Originally Posted by ud69
Specific examples of creativity? Facilities? Scheduling? Lower academic requirements? Foreign recruiting? Domestic recruiting? Man-to-man defense? Zone defense? Charter flights? Practice facility? Community outreach? Better players? Paint the court?
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Fairly conservative may be a better term...in most things except for the spending of money.
Not saying it is good or bad. UD has a way of doing things that are comfortable. All coaching hires in the last 20 years have been pretty comfortable. Nothing crazy, nor did it have to be crazy. Arena renovation project, took minds and a ton of money...but the finalization and execution was fairly conservative with the fundraising and rollout of new seat licenses, etc. UD hasn't thought out of the box to ramp up student attendance and have been conservative with that. There are plenty more examples of comfortable decisions.
In UD's case, those comfortable decisions have led to consistency. Consistent fan support which translates to consistent fund raising and revenue generation. UD was passed over for getting out of the A10. Other schools did something that UD didn't do and that was win on a national stage consistently. UD did think out of the box in allowing Archie's green light system of player accountability...partially why I think a guy like Grant was brought in. He will run a tight ship.
I will say that I would like UD to push the A10 to think outside of the box regarding some conference things. The A10 isn't what it used to be and Dayton hasn't taken advantage of that. It would be nice for the upper tier A10 teams and some of the top teams from other conferences like us to make movement. Everyone says the A10 works for UD...but it definitely isn't the A10 of old.
If conference challenges are agreed upon...who cares? They are temporary agreements that we can walk away from if it doesn't pan out for SOS.
