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...
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These schools are just buying games, buying wins. That's not fair, and it's not what's good for college basketball. ... There has to be some reward for people willing to play a good schedule and realizing that when you play good people, you're going to win some and you're going to lose some. We should reward the people that are willing to challenge their teams.
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I wanted a coach whose team would rebound relentlessly. And they rebound the heck out of the basketball.
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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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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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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.
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He's one of the best coaches in the country, in my opinion.
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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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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.
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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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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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We felt their non-conference could have been a little more challenging, a little more rigorous. But we believe their seed was a solid seed.
I think it's pretty doggone solid, that's for sure.
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Personally, I would be resistant to that and I believe that in listening to my colleagues on the committee, there doesn't seem to be a lot of momentum in that direction. I think that over the last two years there is a certain magic that has evolved over the course of this tournament, and I wouldn't want to fool around with that in the short term in regards to expanding the field in any way.
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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.