Already have.
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Itās gonna be bad.
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21 posts were merged into an existing topic: Fire Ron Sanchez
The only avenue we havenāt tried with basketball is experienced coach who has won.
With NIL and portal I feel the transition from a lower league up is harder than it was before. It was straight up recruiting to your program and coaching. Now itās far more.
I want an older coach that has not just won games but seen the second weekend. Someone that understands NIL and portal.
Ron was a safe hire. Washed out. Price was an out of the box hire. Sucked ass. Major was a wtf hire and stunk it up.
I still think itās crazy the two best coaches have had in this time are the interims.
I really donāt know what our prospects of ever getting it fixed. Like I told hotrod, you are what your records say you are and what we have is outside of a short run in the late 70s and the 15 yr or so run what we are is a bad basketball school. Sucks to say it but the reality is we have spent more time being bad than good and with the NIL and portal we picked a bad time to be bad. Just not sure I see a path to return to relevance and while Iām hopeful about Biff still gotta see if the staff can actually coach.
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clt says this is ron looking at the aac croots
He has no clue. Thinks things are going great.
One time North Carolinian and former Tulsa etc HC leaving AAC for Big 12 / SEC.
I do think we have a chance to turn our basketball program around, but Rome was not built in one day. I think we have been at a disadvantage due to our available money to spend. You can land a good experienced Coach if you have the dollars. I donāt think we have had the dollars. This may restrict Hill from making a coaching change after 2024 season. He has to look at who we can afford to pay that will benefit the program. But after a couple years in AAC , hopefully our money situation will improve. I contacted Hill, before Biffwas hired, about the next football coach. He as much told me that money will play a major role in the hire. I do think Hill wants to turn things around, but it will take some time. Hopefully, the football hire will create success at the gate and will ignite the entire sports program. A successful football program can generate the money to move the basketball program forward.
Money challenges are real. Typically you need money first then the wins come, problem is for fans itās the other way around win and the money comes. The catalyst to make the leap is often the arrival of a big donor who can front the money.
I donāt have any reason to trust them with my money. If I thought good decisions would be made with it and it would be used to elevate the program I could probably be in the top tier of ānormalā donors, but absolutely nothing about this administration tells me they know how to use it. Itās pretty pathetic.
At this point I honestly feel like they are robbing the students. Most of them are literally financing the thousands of dollars in student fees they will pay during their tenure, taking years or decades to pay it off with interest and they are getting virtually nothing in return. Itās damn near criminal.
But hey, "we are focused on our student athletes having a good experience. "
I get it, but as long as an AD, any AD, has limited resources itās going to be hard to get anything turned around. We are stuck in a downward spiral.
Really hope that the Biff impact brings in more funds for the entire department, not just football. If we can get some really big donors on board with a vision we can flip the script.
The positive is we have seen growth in the 49er club just not enough to make a big impact.
We are #71 in budget out of over 350+ DI schools. No one has done so little with their resources as we have. We are just an excuse making machine as a fan base.
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Top recruit, Memphis commit Mikey Williams arrested on gun charges
Rut roh Pennyā¦
clt says we should offer him
The extensions that Hill gave Sanchez are the only reason we have a financial issue with firing him. He was basically under contract for 7 years at one point before we even really knew what we had. Thatās a huge F up by Hill and probably the reason why he has to keep trying to convince himself and everyone else that we are on the right track. I have to believe that deep down inside he knows that is not true but he has apparently put us in a position where we canāt afford to make a change. Or he just totally canāt admit that Sanchez aināt it.
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At this point, keeping him boils down to essentially insulting oneās intelligence. Thatās literally the one thing you cannot do as an AD, professional sports owner or even as a coach.
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