No correlation.
I didn't defend Farmer, I couldn't get past his "we're not ready" stance on conference realignment.
I've never met Marlin.
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You can take your 13 posts and check them at the door. I want my team and my school to have larger goals. I want us to build a program of consistency and excellence. Going to the NCAA is just a by product of building that type of program. Conference championships should be the first goal in a line of goals established at the beginning of each season. It should be known to recruits what we expect before even stepping foot on campus. We aren't going to make the NCAA every year. We're barely on a 1 of 8 clip. Even with more success there, we may make it only 1 out of every few years. If that's what your goal is, why even have a program?
Is there a right of passage where you have to have a certain number of posts to have an opinion? Is this a fraternity? Where is the "door" that I check them? This is news to me. Did you check your 10,000 posts at this "door?" Want larger goals? Stop playing Xavier and Loyola-New Orleans. Want consistency? Stop splitting with the Arkansas schools at home in conference play. In a results-oriented business that is intercollegiate athletics, you're right conference tournament championships is the goal in this conference. We don't play in the ACC. If you are telling recruits "we aren't going to make the NCAA tournament every year," that is a program I wouldn't want to be associated with. You operate a basketball program to have success and we have agreed that success is measured by conference tournament championships. We both want the same thing, I think. I just seem to have a tad bit higher expectations for the highest paid coach in the league.