If he wins ten games this year and is within two games of a .500 MAC record, I will purchase season tickets for as long as he is in Athens #markitdown

Very good hire.

I'm still waiting for anybody on the revenue thing? I'll just throw out the attendance for the final game of the year , at home, against Miami-363 people. How many we're actually there? How many were students, parents, etc. bad team or not, that is not many for a revenue sport.

OK, now I understand what you mean. Not being near campus, I had no idea what sports they charge admission to. What other sports charge admission? Being a self employed business person, I have no problem knowing that profit and revenue are not the same. I just think of having some kind of threshhold amount to be considered a revenue sport versus a non-revenue sport. My bad.

It was sort of funny, but when I pulled into the parking garage at the Denver/Ohio baskerball game last week , I asked the attendent how much it was. He said, oh you don't pay anything, hockey is our revenue sport, basketball isn't . It's funny how different people look at this topic.

YSU had been awful for 10 years before him as well, 1999-2000 was their last above .500 year before last year. Half of those were sub-10 win seasons.

This discussion of what is/is not a revenue sport (and specifically whether or not women's basketball/volleyball generate net income) got me curious. I tried to look into it from work yesterday on a break, but I couldn't find any hard numbers on sport-by-sport expenditures and revenues. Anyone have any suggestions?

They wished her well in her future endeavors.

Another old curmudgeon will share his dilemma.  I have the same concern about men coaching women, but for different reasons. If the gender thing was fair and even, I would have no problem with a man coaching a women’s team. But there are no women coaching men in NCAA Division 1 basketball, while the number of men coaching women continues to grow. Men can seek and find jobs coaching womens' teams  but the opposite is not going to happen in the foreseeable future.

Let me shift gears and congratulate Coach Boldon and wish him the best.  I will certainly continue to follow the team. His experience, past records and other things suggest a very good outcome here.   If he’s as successful as I think he might be, in 3+ years, OHIO could make a some noise in the MAC and perhaps beyond.  At that point we’d probably run up against some big boys and would likely lose him. But you never know. 

Back to gender briefly.  My dilemma is would I have hired him if he was clearly the best available coach out there, putting my beliefs up against my competitive spirit. I guess even pondering the question indicates I wouldn't be  a good AD.

Ridiculous logic in my eyes. It may make perfect sense to you but it seems like the same forward thinking employed to keep civil rights at bay for many years.

Ball State limited their sports for years because they refused to even look at males to coach collegiate females. THe first group of women who grew up playing ball since 3rd grade ....just like the boys.....is currently making their mark.

I have always been a proponent of hiring the best coach for the job. I find the logic that you have to hire a black coach on a white coaching staff or that you have to hire a white coach on an all black staff equally as preposterous yet it is an unwritten rule in college ball. In my eyes you Hire the best coach. This is the same thing that leads to the CHicago Public League as a whole  laughing when Groce was hired , saying he does not relate to blacks and will never get their kids. Coaches are coaches and they should not have gender, color or any other barriers.

I would love to see a female coaching men;'s bball... to the point where I advanced Carolyn Peck as a liketly candidate a long time ago on  another message board. Listening to her talk hoops I am always taken aback. She knows the game better than most has a great command of motivation.

Bernadette Locke-Mattox was Pitino's assistant at UK from 90 to 94 before taking a head women's job. WOmen can coach men with no problem. But, once again....this is the first gen of women who came up playing the game. C.Vivian Stringer had older brothers that taught her the game from an early age and made her compete regardless of gender. As one of college hoops older gen of coaches she is still watching the girls who grew up playing for coaches who played the game mature and cut their teeth. If anyone here remembers what womens basketball looked like prior to the 90; s you will know what I am talking about.

I always thought Ball St AD Andrea Seger was sadly mistaken holding to her "no men" mantra while having Curt Miller hand her her ass on a yearly basis.

Amazing to me that there are still folks out there thinking this .......

You are very good at redefining words to fit your current meaning. 

except he did not? He took your statement, and said it is sexist, so not redefining words here.

I noticed a woman on Eastern's bench during the MAC Tournament.  Looks like shes the Director of Basketball Operations though.  

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