Well 105 complex was done to improve footballā¦ track and softball moved to build new football practice facility and improve stadium.
These charts tell me that APP spends money on basketball but their fanbase is not there. The fans for APP are pretty much football only.
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Although partly true, APP had to build a new softball complex as their current one did not met NCAA standards. Either way they will now have new tennis facilities both indoor and outdoor, a new track facility, and new up to standards softball facility.
That in itself is a large capital expenditure.
App sucks.
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Yeah it shows me they do spend money on other sports, they far outspend the revenue those sports bring in too.
My entire point is some seem to think itās 90% spent on football and that is it, but that is not the case, far from it
Correction to my previous post.
They won the regular season title last year and the tourney in 2021.
My mistake.
My point still stands.
They have been better in revenue sports lately.
No doubt about that.
6.0047x as much spent on football as menās basketball.
Itās a pretty straightforward point.
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They spend 29.35% of their total expenses on football. We spend 29.28% of ours. That is a pretty straightforward point right there too.
Biff doing some long tweets 20 mins ago
Now that it is official that our new coach is Albin, time to move on from Biff and close this chat.
#lookingforward
#notlookingback
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Like most on here, I love the hire of Tim Albin - but he is not a guarantee.
I still have an issue with dismissing Poggi in less than 2 years. In conference, Charlotte had to play 5 of the top 6 teams in the AAC. Poggi is credited with a conference record this year of 2-4 (but was not allowed to coach the last 2 games). Poggi did beat ECU, probably the most important game on our schedule. The last 2 games he was not allowed to coach were a far easier matchup and Iām confident he would have won both of these - perhaps by a blowout. 4-4 looks much better than 2-4 & only one game away from a bowl.
Out of conference matchups were also tough. UNC, Indiana, James Madison, and GW. Indiana #8 was much better than expected, and nationally ranked. UNC is always a tough out but we played them well in Chapel Hill. JMU went 4-0 OOC (beating UNC 70-50) and their overall record was 8-4 (2 of their losses were by only 2 points).
Apparently, Biff was not fired for performance. Talent was improving each year and I can only imagine how it would have trended next year. Also, Biff had financial access and influence that is hard to find. I would argue he was trending upward. His release appears to be due to something else, but what? Unless there was a āfor cause issueā you have to give Poggi one more year to show results. Perhaps we are not paying out the next several years if fired for cause?
This is only our 2nd year in a more competitive conference (AAC). Supposedly, of our CUSA team members, we were the last one in. However, we outperformed all of them except for a tie with UTSA and we played a much tougher conference schedule (5 of the top 6 teams). Only Army#22, Tulane (#17 when we played), Navy (#25 when we played), Memphis #25 (@ Memphis & end-of-game loss), and ECU (we beat them) finished ahead of us in conference.
9 of the 12 teams we played are bowl eligible.
This coaching change leads to the following:
- paying a ādismissed coachā for several additional years
- paying more for a āreplacementā head coach
- paying more for assistants - Biff subsidized staff by forfeiting some of his compensation
- most likely regressing next year due to a restart (regardless of portal)
- at least ECU, App, and UNC (on our schedule next year) would be starting over with new coaches - we would have been in a much better position next year & maybe for many to come
- Loss of some players due to coaching change
I do not envy the position of being the AD and certainly do not have access to all the information needed to make decisions. Regardless, they will aways be 2nd guessed. I too had hoped for a better season but cannot understand (unless Biff did something terribly wrong) why we would dismiss him this prematurely.
I still have confidence in our leadership but someone please explain.
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While I do think Biff was a nightmare behind the scenes, we will never know that for sure, though I think Mikeās comments were a bit pointed yesterday. I can tell you the rumors I heard are not good. Additionally, his buyout was not that much.
Outside of that, our team really did not play hard at all for most of Biffās tenure. They were truly uninspired for most of it. He has quite a few defenders on here, and good for him, but I very rarely saw a team that gave a darn. I donāt know how you could watch the last two years and feel differently.
If youāre gonna act like a jack wagon and tell everybody everything they are doing wrong, you better win. And thatās in all walks of life. If you donāt, you get a pink slip.
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I was very critical of this. The reason was because I thought itād negatively impact our hiring ability. It didnāt and we got a great coach out of it, so Iāll admit that my frustration was misplaced.
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First impression after Poggiās introductory press conference was that he was not going to be told what to do or say which he mostly got a way with it it in high school but not in college. Also there was a huge gap in personality and style with Mike Hill and Clt athletics in general. I donāt think it took long for Mike Hill to realize that but was hoping Biff they could overcome with wins. Glad heās gone. Seriously doubt he will ever be offered a head coach in D1 football. Plenty of opportunities right now.
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He also kind of just gave up this year. No energy in press conferences, skipping summer camps to go on vacation. That plus his trashing of administration behind the scenes and turning donors against us meant we let him go fairly early. Havenāt even mentioned him winning 1 FBS game at home his entire tenure and getting completely bailed out of going 1-1 against FCS. Clearly the coaching world agreed with our decision during this search and it didnāt turn people away from our job
We should have let him go earlier. Hell he should have never been hired. Regardless of the talent he brought in he couldnāt discipline, staff routinely look lost, he was a bad head coach, he pissed off donors, trashed the admin, didnāt want to be hereā¦ just bad all around.
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Best thing a manager can do once you realize that you made a mistake in hiring is cut ties right away. The longer you hang on the worse the problem becomes.
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He should been fired immediately after missing summer camps
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