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Sunday, September 10, 2006
Buried treasure
Stephen Miller of the Allentown Morning Call did a nice interview piece with Lafayette coach Fran O'Hanlon in Friday's paper.

A lot of the interview covered familiar ground for hard core Patriot League fans. But if you didn't bother reading through to the third page, you missed O'Hanlon's best comments. Asked about the latest league tournament format, O'Hanlon responds:
"You should have a tournament. There should be a tournament, and if Carolyn [Femovich] called me up, I'd tell her the same thing. There should be a tournament where we're going someplace.

A neutral, centralized site would be great."
The tournament site issue has been a bone of contention since the league began. The latest incarnation, going back to the previously tried site of the highest seeds concept, is not the solution. If it were, it would have worked the first time it was tried.

As O'Hanlon points out, there will be no tournament feel to the thing. It will be more like a bunch of extra home games. Sort of what you'd expect from a Division III conference.

At a time when the league is enjoying its highest profile ever, when the quality of the league is on the upswing, the image of the conference takes a hit with a step backwards with its tournament.

Kudos to Fran for having the courage to say so.
Published at 7:15 AM by Hoop Time.
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