Originally Posted by superfan99
Oh good. It will be easy. [sarcasm]. How many teams can meet this criteria?
How many teams in the last 30 years have won 5 straight regular season titles?
If this is the results people are expecting, I can now see why there are negative posters on here.
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I think TX’s point is, those are the results the BE muckety mucks will need to see before they’d be willing to extend an invitation. And while I don’t think the in-conference results are totally necessary, I think the postseason results need to be pretty close to that. Heck, we Danced 4 years in a row not too long ago, and what did it get us? Crickets.
And some may scoff at this, but I do think there’s also a slight degree of Jesuit bias entering into their decision-making process. It’s not nearly as important a factor as postseason success (and the $ that comes with it) or TV ratings (that almighty $ again), but I believe it’s there. If it wasn’t, then why is
SLU the perceived favorite for an invite even though they’ve had 1 good season in 5 years?
On that subject, my late mother was on faculty at UD for 45 years, and she was on several academic and other committees during her time there. She was fair-minded to a fault, but whenever the subject of our “friends” from Norwood came up, she had 2 not-so-complimentary comments about them: (1) she said that UD, for years, tried to make sure its tuition cost was lower than
Xavier’s, to make a point about which school cared about affordable education; and (2) she always said that X’s Jesuits knew how to find the $ (and she didn’t mean that as a compliment). Now, she retired a quarter-century ago, and I’m sure the landscape is different today than it was when she worked at UD (1949-94). But still, some people hold grudges, and it wouldn’t surprise me at all to see some of that “Hatfield and McCoy” attitude still lingering among our “brothers-in-Christ” on Victory Parkway.
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