Comments on: See no evil, call no evil, ref no more http://www.thirtyfiveseconds.com/2008/02/26/see-no-evil-call-no-evil-ref-no-more/ Mon, 18 May 2009 20:58:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Papa Lou BSU http://www.thirtyfiveseconds.com/2008/02/26/see-no-evil-call-no-evil-ref-no-more/comment-page-1/#comment-200 Papa Lou BSU Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:30:27 +0000 http://www.thirtyfiveseconds.com/2008/02/26/see-no-evil-call-no-evil-ref-no-more/#comment-200 And, apparently I'm a complete idiot and posted the above in the wrong thread. Sorry. And, apparently I’m a complete idiot and posted the above in the wrong thread. Sorry.

]]> By: Papa Lou BSU http://www.thirtyfiveseconds.com/2008/02/26/see-no-evil-call-no-evil-ref-no-more/comment-page-1/#comment-196 Papa Lou BSU Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:30:31 +0000 http://www.thirtyfiveseconds.com/2008/02/26/see-no-evil-call-no-evil-ref-no-more/#comment-196 Interesting, but I'm not sure if there's a larger conclusion to be drawn here beyond "at the mid-and-low-major level, it is the private, often religiously-affiliated colleges tend to have more money to throw at their basketball budgets than their smaller-state-school conference mates." (Example: until their move to the Horizon League this year, Valpo and Oral Roberts dominated the Mid-Continent Conference for the past decade, despite being the only two private schools in the league for the majority of that span. Neither school is Catholic.) Interesting, but I’m not sure if there’s a larger conclusion to be drawn here beyond “at the mid-and-low-major level, it is the private, often religiously-affiliated colleges tend to have more money to throw at their basketball budgets than their smaller-state-school conference mates.”

(Example: until their move to the Horizon League this year, Valpo and Oral Roberts dominated the Mid-Continent Conference for the past decade, despite being the only two private schools in the league for the majority of that span. Neither school is Catholic.)

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