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I've been skeptical of MSU's AD for a long time. When Barry didn't get an NCAA invite in 2006 with something like a 24 rpi, but no quality (top-50) wins, Barry got shafted. Then he didn't get a contract extension, which made it impossible for him to recruit. When the lack of recruiting took its' toll, Barry got fired. Nothing quite like making it impossible to succeed and then firing the guy who doesn't succeed.

I'm reminded of the situation at WSU in the late '80's and '90's. Incompetent AD's and an anti-athletics Pres managed to lose a FB program and destroy a once-proud BB program. It took over a decade to recover from that.

They actually had an RPI of 22 on Selection Sunday and 4 top 50 RPI wins (Creighton, UNI, Bradley and SIU) along with a road Bracketbuster win @ #52 Wisconsin-Milwaukee in February. The shaft job was far worse than most remember.

Play Angry wrote:They actually had an RPI of 22 on Selection Sunday and 4 top 50 RPI wins (Creighton, UNI, Bradley and SIU) along with a road Bracketbuster win @ #52 Wisconsin-Milwaukee in February. The shaft job was far worse than most remember.

The shaft was worse than awful. A screw job deluxe.

I remember well.

Ricardo del Rio wrote:

Play Angry wrote:They actually had an RPI of 22 on Selection Sunday and 4 top 50 RPI wins (Creighton, UNI, Bradley and SIU) along with a road Bracketbuster win @ #52 Wisconsin-Milwaukee in February. The shaft job was far worse than most remember.

The shaft was worse than awful. A screw job deluxe.

I remember well.

So do Bears fans. Kind of nice to hear confirmation from other MVC fan bases though.

glm38 wrote:

Ricardo del Rio wrote:

Play Angry wrote:They actually had an RPI of 22 on Selection Sunday and 4 top 50 RPI wins (Creighton, UNI, Bradley and SIU) along with a road Bracketbuster win @ #52 Wisconsin-Milwaukee in February. The shaft job was far worse than most remember.

The shaft was worse than awful. A screw job deluxe.

I remember well.

So do Bears fans. Kind of nice to hear confirmation from other MVC fan bases though.

People know.

Play Angry wrote:It's pretty much SEMO or bust.

There's also IUPUI on the Bears' schedule.

Aargh wrote:I've been skeptical of MSU's AD for a long time. When Barry didn't get an NCAA invite in 2006 with something like a 24 rpi, but no quality (top-50) wins, Barry got shafted. Then he didn't get a contract extension, which made it impossible for him to recruit. When the lack of recruiting took its' toll, Barry got fired. Nothing quite like making it impossible to succeed and then firing the guy who doesn't succeed.

Different AD.

So how is this push going?

PantherSigEp wrote:So how is this push going?

I think it's gone over the cliff.

PantherSigEp wrote:So how is this push going?

Hard to know as the original poster went MIA (as expected) yet again after another early season posting binge.