JCT wrote:
I'm already working on a shame campaign. We win a national championship in men's volleyball, and our home exhibition draws less than 400?
We have our best men's basketball start since Lyndon Johnson was President, and we can't fill the Joe against the #15 team and conference favorite?
Shame. Total shame.
I've seen humorous videos mocking Loyola sports in the past, but this is serious. If I had a place in the athletics administration, I'd have people in EVERY dorm talking about how easy it is to go to games and how important. I'd have student-athletes visiting classrooms and talking about the sacrifices they have to make to represent Loyola. The apathy makes me ill, especially after the progress in the past two years.
Well here's something more to add. At the end of 2012-2013 volleyball season, Calhoun raised the amount of volleyball scholarships from 3.5 to 3.8(or maybe 3.85 I can't remember). NCAA allows 4.5 and the women get 11. (how is that possible under title ix).
Tom Kelly and Susan Malisch lowered it back to 3.5 to start next season. That's what they consider being a good administrator. I mean how much does that .3 cost the university. What a great way to tell a national championship coach and program way to go. Why don't they have the max of 4.5? Of course, I will state allegedly that's what happened.