0 comments by TSS Staff on 5/1/2015
Last week we did a fun couple of roundtables discussing fictional football coaches and players. This week we decided to take that idea and give it a little different spin by going with a different sport and a different idea. TSS staff writers
0 comments by Matt Zemek
The Florida Gators — in basketball as well as in football — might still be great again, and perhaps without missing very much time. If Jim McElwain turns out to be another Urban Meyer-level gem from the Mountain West Conference who can turn around a program in two seasons, the folks in Gainesville will be […]
0 comments by Joseph Nardone on 4/30/2015
Billy Donovan is leaving the Florida Gators for the friendly confines of an ultra-talented NBA franchise. That’s great for Donovan, as well as people who view him as an upgrade over Scott Brooks, but only time will tell if that will work out for Oklahoma City. This leaves Florida in a tough spot. We are […]
0 comments by Bart D on 4/29/2015
Follow us on Twitter @TheStudentSect In 2007, the unemployment rate for college graduates was 5.5 percent; as of 2014, it’s 8.5 percent (Economic Policy Institute). As of 2013, the Center for College Affordability and Productivity reported that nearly half of college graduates were working jobs that require less than a four-year education. The CCAP also […]
0 comments by Steve Fetch
This is the first in a series of posts leading up to the 2015-’16 college basketball season, wherein I preview each of the 33 conferences (well, 32 + 1 independent) that offer Division 1 basketball. There will be no set format, so some will be a bit of an overview, some will talk about sleepers, […]
0 comments by Joseph Nardone on 4/23/2015
The Oklahoma City Thunder parted ways with Scott Brooks on Wednesday. Say what you will about him — because I have — but Brooks did do certain things well during his tenure with the franchise. After helping to develop players; building a foundation of success when the organization relocated; and taking the team to the Western […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 4/21/2015
Coaches lose their jobs all the time, but they are the constants in college sports, certainly more than their players. What’s a quick way to survey a large chunk of the landscape in both college football and basketball? Try the “Coach Association Game,” a self-explanatory version of the word association games you played as a […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 4/20/2015
The 2015 college basketball season just ended. The 2014 college football season is a more distant memory, but football owns more of a hold on the American sports fan’s imagination. Before every waking thought turns to the 2015 football season, why not explore the similarities of various football and basketball seasons from the current college […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
The last time a Florida coaching icon left for the pros, it came as a distinct shock… but it did happen. Steve Spurrier, having coached the Gators on the gridiron for 12 seasons (1990-2001), bolted for the NFL’s Washington Redskins in January of 2002. Naturally, the move wasn’t hard to explain: Spurrier wanted to scratch […]
0 comments by Joseph Nardone on 4/15/2015
Loyalty, honor, and other words that have nothing to do with specific subjects often times get thrown around them these days. We do so because, well, I am not too sure. Maybe it has something to do with our own ideas of how things should be. Or, really, it could simply be that it is far […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 4/14/2015
The coaching carousel in college basketball is still spinning out some hires at the mid-major and low-major levels, but the whirl of activity in the power conferences has come to an end. This might feel like a look-ahead to the 2015-2016 season, but it’s more of an attempt to take the just-completed season and mention […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
As we put the final touches on our overview of the college basketball scene and transition to our offseason period at The Student Section, it’s worth looking at various programs that all have reasons to be concerned… different reasons, mind you, but reasons that point to the same high level of anxiety. Various coaching situations […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek on 4/13/2015
With 351 Division I teams, college basketball has a very tall coaching ladder. There’s always ample space in which to move up or down. A year ago, Frank Haith looked at his situation at Missouri and realized himself that a downward move on the ladder — from Missouri to Tulsa — was necessary. Give Haith […]
0 comments by Joseph Nardone
Critical mass has been reached in the realm of college basketball. Everyone and their respective mothers has an opinion. We have arrived at the time of the year when people tell other people when they are or are not making the right decisions for themselves as far as declaring early entry in the NBA Draft is […]
0 comments by Matt Zemek
Our college basketball coverage at The Student Section winds down this week. We’ll have occasional posts during the spring and summer, but this week marks our last concerted attempt to make sense of the just-concluded season and look ahead to November. Let’s start with an assessment of the high-profile coaching hires in college hoops. One […]
