You do a good of framing when you say “primarily” responsible. But he’s not the one that got them going. Cheating under Fitzgerald did, followed by monson’s time as coach before he made the same mistake as collier.
By then they were off and running and ahead of the pack. They could have been caught at that point but they weren’t.
Few is responsible for making them essentially insurmountable. Whether someone else could have taken the baton from monson and done the same thing, we will never know.
But I can tell you from first hand experience that an inimitable program can replace a legend and keep being inimitable. I’m a good friend of a program that has.
Virginia hired a coach that elevated a low grade pac12 program to middle of the pack. Sounds familiar. What’s the difference? Oh, maybe the hundred million or two dollars they invested?
And they still have lost in the first round 2 of the last 3 tournaments playing a horribly boring style.
To be fair, our wcc numbers as a whole are probably a bit inflated… the cost of doing business in major west coast markets.
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Why do we care about cheating so much? Pretty sure every successful program in America cheats to some extent.
Wish we cheated a little more. Kids deserve to get paid. Let me know where to drop the bag off 
(I got $50!).
Haha, the key to a good bag man is advertising on your local public message board.
”If we could take a vote for these kids to make a real salary every season, I would vote for it. $40,000 or something. Goes back to mama, buys them a car, lets them go live like normal people after they work their asses off for us. But let’s be honest, that ain’t gonna stop all this. If everyone gets $40,000, someone would still be trying to give ‘em 40 extra on the side.”
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Is this why some of you have always disliked Sendek? Because he won’t cheat?
I think you’re wrong about every program cheating.
That guy and the people like him honestly sound like sad and possibly mentally ill people. Why would anyone give away their own money, thousands of dollars of it, to benefit a program that makes way more money than they do and will never pay them back for it?
I’m kidding.
Although I do think most successful programs stretch the rules far better than SCU does haha.
People do it because…
A. Status.
B. Those thousands don’t mean anything to them.
So in other words, you aren’t really kidding.
Kidding about dropping bags.
Sheesh.
I’m going to go get some fresh air and enjoy this beautiful weather. I recommend you doing the same. 
Cheers
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Why do you feel it appropriate to “recommend” this? You don’t know where I am or what I’m doing. Maybe I’m already outside. You don’t know.
You’re just making a roundabout insult.
And I don’t believe for a second that you wouldn’t if you thought it would be acceptable by the school, department and program. You’ve already showed your hand.
But they literally don’t get the status. He said you can’t form a relationship with the program itself. Probably they’re not important for the program to want to anyway. And throwing around false accusations of racism to cover up is just disgusting.
These aren’t the millionaires. They’re people that take sports way too seriously and try to make themselves feel more important than they are.
Status among their peers. Bag dropper X is definitely telling his best buddy. Anyways… doesn’t matter. I believe we generally agree, they are doing it to feel important.
Your second point is absolutely spot on.
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Bill raftery Santa Clara callout after a couple eaddy 3s… the closest we’ve gotten to the tourney
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Would have been nice if he had played better when he was here…
Didn’t you just say a couple weeks ago, “it’s easy when you have the mobleys”?
You replied to your own post here, but yep and its still true.
Surprisingly, playing with a top 5 nba draft pick makes the game easier.
He still sucked his last year at scu. Maybe he got lazy and didn’t put in the work to be sharp.
Haven’t posted enough yet in this new interface…
IIRC, he had a terrible middle third of the season and came off the bench for the most part. Whatever the reason, bummer we didn’t get the best out of him.
Sendek just had no clue as to how to use Tahj… making Wertz point guard was big mistake #1
Couldn’t play him. Couldn’t throw it in the ocean. Isnt good enough otherwise to play if he isn’t hitting.
Definitely unfortunate, though maybe Williams getting more time was better in the long run.