Brookings Banter

Even with USD Women's success this year, Stu Whitney is stuck in the past. State's fall from grace this year is a great opportunity for USD to have the sole possession of the spotlight.  You wouldn't know that from Sunday's edition of the Argus Leader.  How can USD Women have the spotlight when Stu's column is below the fold and the lead article focuses on the Summit League's Conference Tourney to be held in Sioux Falls next year.  And only a quarter of Stu's article focuses on USD the other three fourths focuses on the past and SDSU.

Stu should be a reporter not a historian.  Bringing up that over five years ago Mandy Koupal transferred from SDSU to USD is not relevant and has been forgotten.  I know a lot of SDSU fans who would turn red in the face and foam at the mouth when the topic turned to Koupal's departure.  Even after the Jackrabbits won the D-II National Title making the transfer a moot subject, Jackrabbits fans were still mad.  But it didn't take long to move on from the transfer situation to the future that was ahead for the Jacks.  I'm sorry but SDSU has much more to be concerned about.  Nobody said it would be easy to go D-I. The rest of Stu's column is his normal create controversy that doesn't exist so I don't have work on any story of value. 

SDSU's loss Thursday night is an opportunity for USD have the limelight but with Stu Whitney at the helm the good story will be lost.