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Maybe Coach W will gently use some peer pressure on the guys that the ladies are whipping their behinds and the fans are getting rabid over the SBs, not the Bears.

Tennessee used to play to a sell out crowd every game (women) and an empty gym for men. No longer. My friends at UTK said it was just too embarrassing for the men to be doormats. Seeing the Seven is Heaven and Eight is Great tee-shirts around campus for the women's team is a daily reminder.

Good point, Steve. Thanks for pointing that out. I think I must have suppressed that memory

The biggest down side for a D1 program losing to Philander Smith is that the rest of the reschedule is extremely tougher. The season outlook does not appear to be favorable. 3 games into the season and already in panic mode.

Your points are valid about the Sugar Bears, but if we can get players and coaches to succeed at Football, Women's Basketball, Volleyball, baseball, & softball...why can't it happen for men's basketball. I understand that we are not very good, and the guys are trying to gel together but it is COMPLETELY inexcusable to lose a NAIA school. For gods sake, Conway HS could beat those guys.

It's just embarrassing...flat out, pure and simple. Nobody should be making excuses for them. You can't tell me Philander Smith is getting better recruits than UCA, isn't that why we went and got Corliss to coach the team?

Trust me, I tried to do the same!

Could be that we are getting better recruits. Problem seems to be making a competitive team out of them. We went through the same scenario with the girls team before Coach Daniels was hired. Lack of coaching experience for this level of basketball seems to be our problem. Hiring favorite sons and daughters apparently doesn't seem to work in DI basketball - at least here at UCA.

No one expected world beaters at this point and time in CW's second year but there's not a soul out there that should settle for a loss to an NAIA team either.

Supporting nonproductive teams in jr. high and high school is tolerable because the kids are ours, our neighbors, our friends. We want the kids to win but more importantly we want them to enjoy themselves and mature together as a team. At the college level we expect them to win - regardless. They are the cream of the crop. Scholarships are evidence of that. In my opinion it is not wrong to expect something in return at this level. It's just the nature of the beast.

+1 Honey Bear

When you have to purchase a ticket to get in...the objective should be to win.