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KC Star article:
This has to improve, or there’s no reason for UMKC to play at the Division I level.
Twenty years — the program left the NAIA ranks and joined the big boys for the 1987-88 season — is enough time to have made a point. UMKC shouldn’t go another five years without a conference trophy or NCAA Tournament appearance, or plans for a permanent residence that makes sense.
If we’re watching the Kangaroos flounder in front of friends and neighbors at Kemper in 2013, it will be time to pull the plug on this ambitious project that looked so promising after a few years.
We know the problems. UMKC can be a tough sell, more difficult than any would have imagined when the Kangaroos made the jump in class.
Twenty years — the program left the NAIA ranks and joined the big boys for the 1987-88 season — is enough time to have made a point. UMKC shouldn’t go another five years without a conference trophy or NCAA Tournament appearance, or plans for a permanent residence that makes sense.
If we’re watching the Kangaroos flounder in front of friends and neighbors at Kemper in 2013, it will be time to pull the plug on this ambitious project that looked so promising after a few years.
We know the problems. UMKC can be a tough sell, more difficult than any would have imagined when the Kangaroos made the jump in class.