You really donât get it do you? Whoever gets hired isnât a bad coach or a good coach on day 1. Therefore you canât actually say we have nothing to offer, once again you are attempting to make a statement to fit your agenda.
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We can offer the opportunity to build a program and turn it into a perennial winner. Not many schools our size and positioned for growth can offer that. Is that appealing to a HC candidate? I donât know.
Not the ones weâre going after. A young upstart? Sure. The fanbase doesnât want that. Didnât even want Tony Gibson.
Itâs all money related.
One of the reasons I was shocked that Hill was going to get to make this hire is that of inertia, or lack thereof.
He had several chances by making a good hire to get either of the revenue programs going, which would theoretically springboard fundraising efforts especially with corporate and smaller individual donors. The fact that he hasnât been able to is why we cannot afford those things now.
Heâs in a position now where he has to find a way to pull a qualified candidate without the funds to support the deficiencies that have been noted.
Poggi was a gimmick hire intended to mask those shortcomings. It didnât work. Our fans are tired of gimmicks now.
Catch-22.
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Actually, we do travel via charter. Canât argue with the rest of your points.
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Talking about coaches and head coaches for recruiting
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clt says we travel via charter jets
Thanks to those that listed possible candidates above. I found that helpful and was hopeful it would get this thread back on topic. I will be in BOA next year and look forward to seeing someone lead our team on the field. The world is not ending.
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Charlotte is not as good an opportunity as some of you would like to think and not as bad as some make it out to be.
We can be a solid program that averages a .500 record and maybe better depending on scheduling. BUT, our ceiling is limited just as almost every school in USA is.
I would think a guy like Bell would jump at an opportunity to come here and I canât imagine why in the hell Petrino would even consider it.
Iâm starting to read the tea leaves and think that even the Judy haters are beginning to think that maybe the AD job isnât as simple as they mighta thought. But that might be a reach on my part, the irrational hate runs deepâŚ
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Itâs the situation we put ourselves in S. I didnât love the hire, but I got on board. I was not happy with how this season was going, but I also understood that it was our hardest schedule weâve ever played. I also understood that he would be back next season, because itâs extremely rare that a football coach gets fired in less than three seasons absent malfeasance.
We kept a shitty Ron Sanchez forever, but a Biff, who was trending upward, had already matched his prior seasonâs win total with two games to go was let go. While we may not have been excelling on the stat sheet, I do believe Biff would have won the last two games, and in the column that matters most, Wins, we were trending upward.
I donât think you double down on Poggi, I just think that you have to give him a third year. Or in the alternative, if he had lost out his last two games this season, the optics are significantly better than firing the guy before he completes his second season.
I think in this instance, you are hamstrung, you do hang onto Poggi, because of the perception that firing him brings. No good coach would want that job. Executives, quality builders of things, donât want to go into a situation where they believe they wonât have time to put things in place. Thereâs a lot of commentary from folks who I would surmise may have never built anything, but it takes time to make meaningful change at places, transfer portal notwithstanding. If you have a monumental task in front of someone, you donât tell them they have to fix it immediately. Itâs just abjectly poor management to have those kind of expectations.
Also, speaking of building on things, on the progress front, while some of our stats were bad, under Biff we also had the best two recruiting seasons in history, and it isnât even close.
I think Biff should have been able to finish the season, if he loses both, then maybe you consider firing him. I understand that has implications based on timing for the portal. So be it. If he wins one or two, I think you have to, by the customs of the industry, give him another year. Championship caliber programs arenât built on a single seasonâs roster, not even in this era. We are Charlotte, not Bama. I didnât like the hire, I didnât like how he was performing, I didnât like how he and his staff interacted with fans, and I donât like the untimely firing either.
If Hill pulls the trigger with two games to go next season with only 2 or 3 wins, nobody bats an eye. Doing it now is a disastrous look. Once again, Hillâs poor decisions backed us into a corner, and he did so poorly this time, it looks like it put us in a no-win situation, but one where, I believe, keeping Biff for another year would have ended up being the lesser of two evils. Who knows? He may have had a better year next year too.
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Saban doesnât like NIL right? Tell him we donât have any NIL money and to come coach here.
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clt says our NIL is like schrodingerâs cat
Charlotte fans- We hand out coupons for free chick fil a
Other fans- Charlotte is buying players
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That would be a good hire. I hope we at least reached out.
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This is all the fans fault!
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We were told there was more interest from higher level coached than originally thought. Also that we wanted a coach by yesterday to be able to participate in the early signing period.
I was buying coaches turning us down to save face yesterday, but at this point it looks like we dont have the money to get what we want/need and are trending towards settling for a 4th option hire.
Iâm hoping Iâm wrong and the reason for the delay is because a candidate has emerged that is coaching in a championship game this weekend (rich rod, helton, or albin?).
I feel like this biggest issue with all this, is look at how the first two searches went. Mike Hill had a verbal commit from Mike Houston, then he backed out last minute, putting egg on Hillâs face. So we found someone on the cheap and gimmicky. Next hire, is totally out of left field and everyone is like who and another gimmicky hire. That guy doesnât even make it two years and now in Hillâs third try at this, heâs getting turned down left and right.
So whatâs the rub? Is it truly about money? Or is our assessment of candidates way off base? Or do we have a Mike Hill problem?
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Thanks!! Love the input
Todayâs BoT meeting:
Hillâs part is at the end.
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clt says the big news is the University buying Campus Edge!
$70M!
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