I’m sorry but we can’t keep blaming academic standards and quality of players year after year. There are other good academic schools like Duke, Stanford, and Vandy that have much better track records than NU. It’s not money. The Ryan Family has some of the deepest pockets in the country next to Pat Knight/Oregon and T Boone Pickens/OSU. And as far as talent, Collins has recruited way way more Top 100 players than Carmody ever had because of the Princeton offense system. Collins had Vic Law 2014, Aaron Falzon 2015, Rapolas Ivanauskus 2016, Pete Nance/Miller Kopp 2018, Robbie Beran 2019, Ty Berry 2020, and Casey Simmons in 2021. The Top 9 NU recruits all time were recruited by Chris Collins. At what point do we recognize that Collins has under performed and he is the common link in all this failure. At least with Carmody we scored and had guys like Shurna, Kevin Coble, Jitim Young, Vedran Vukusic….all of which were three stars. Regardless of academics and NU’s talent, Chris Collins has simply not performed. NU is the ONLY school to miss the tourney 5 years in a row and keep their coach. NU needs to move on and my biggest frustration is all these people who keep coming to his defense. I am truly saddened if you all believe that NU can never amount to more than a 10-seed in a 14 team conference. I get we won’t be good every year but jeez. Have a little pride and don’t settle and smile for beating Nebraska, Minnesota, an Indiana team without half their players, and a Maryland team who’s coach just quit. NU fans! Let’s have a higher bar and not settle for a 40% winning % in sports regardless of the horrible history in the past. I hope I am wrong but this feels like the 2020 Chicago Bears. Everyone knew Nagy/Pace were gone and we wasted a year. Again, I hope Collins makes me eat my words but this is as hopeless as I’ve felt in a longtime as a NU Bball fan….and now I’m refreshing this page to see who transfers. Love all the debate and passion on the Rock but let’s all please have higher expectations than graduating our players and being okay losing close games!!!