Craig Littlepage
Craig Littlepage
Craig Littlepageis an American college athletics administrator and former basketball player and coach. He is the athletic director at the University of Virginia. He was named to that position in 2001 and has been with the school as an administrator since 1990. Littlepage served as the head men's basketball coach at the University of Pennsylvania from 1982 to 1985 and at Rutgers University from 1985 to 1988...
air asked discussion force provided questions similar team unique
We had a discussion and the questions that asked were similar to 'Who is tough?' or 'Who is another team you wouldn't want to play? Air Force provided us with some unique things.
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We put together what I think is a really solid and really diverse field for this year's championship.
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It's much like the question about injuries - it has to be considered, it has to be brought up. The committee member who has the monitoring assignment for that team and for that conference would be obliged to bring that to the attention of the committee.
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It?s a number of sports. Any of the sports that play on grass would be under consideration.
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Coach Groh has provided strong leadership for the university's football program, and we want to ensure continuity in its future academic and athletic successes.
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After the automatic qualifiers are named, conference affiliation really plays no part of the process. Teams are evaluated on what they have done regardless of what conference they are in.
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I think it certainly crushes the notion that you can't look at the numbers and be able to accurately reflect who's a good basketball team and who's not. You need to take a step back and not look at mere brand recognition, if you will.
I think it's pretty doggone solid, that's for sure.
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I think we are comfortable that the modifications have done a lot of what we had hoped. I would think that one of the unintended consequences ... would encourage teams from other parts of the country to play away from home.
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I think that would be a pretty strong resume & for the University of Virginia, for Maryland, for Colorado, for whoever the school might be. That sort of profile in our level of league, I believe, would be a good resume.
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Some of the losses that took place ... it certainly does open up the opportunity for teams in the postseason tournaments to solidify a 1-seed or maybe to open the door for other teams.
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He's one of the best coaches in the country, in my opinion.
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In terms of what we saw in the Big East, it created some very tough questions for us, specifically the imbalanced scheduling. At the end of this process we felt the eight teams that were selected were very good teams.
discussion league select strictly teams time
The discussion about any one league will not go into our discussions when it comes time to select the at-larges. We are going to look strictly at teams, what teams have done.