If Iām being honest, Iām now ok with Houston going to ECU for 5 or 6 mediocre 0.300 seasons, getting released and hired on as a coordinator at a Georgia State or somewhere while the Pirates continue to decline. Just because karma!
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I would say all of the expletives!
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Just in case anyone was wondering Will Healy has outrecruited Mike Houston every year he was HC. He also has done that with a program that has arguably less success than us and 1/5th the budget
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clt says Hill did the right thing, and Houston will get less from ECU without us being in play. HA HA
We will be fine. Just wait.
I actually do like Healy, and think he has a ton of upside. But heās just not what we need to sale the program right now. 33 years old with a very short career to judge him by. I honestly think we would be better off with Lambert next year than Healy. I want Healy in a decade, not right now.
I have to say, Healy has done enough, and I still have faith in Hill, that if heās the hire Iām okay with it!
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Healy sold a 0-11 team to recruits and was able to get the number 1 FCS signing class. I think he would be able to sell our potential because at this point we dont have much else.
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Why is it that we only make espn for bad things? 
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The most important line in Mike Hillās tweet about Houston:
āI feel itās important to update our supporters on the status of our interest in Mike Houston.ā
I am glad we were not just left hanging. Supporters matter.
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Amen. The way Houston handled this proves that he was not the right guy for the job so Iām glad heās going elsewhere. Just hate we wasted time on him. We will be fine.
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do you think Hill might be a little pissed?
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Iām sure Hill was not happy Houston went public with the offer knowing a verbal agreement was all he had and he could back out at any moment. Whoās to say how it got leaked, but Hill made it clear we donāt make offers or wait around while you keep looking. Thatās absurd and makes Houston and his team look foolish. Itās not the best optics for us, since Hill may be circling back with previous candidates, but you better believe he lands the next guy.
there was a country song (āhep me hereā ray charles would say) with a title something like āThank God for dreams that didnāt come trueā or something like that. houston shot his wad with me.
Unanswerd Prayers by Garth Brooks is similarā¦but about his high school crush
thatās it. thanks. so much for my ācrushā on Houston!
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Why are people saying Hill is āgetting a passā? He had a verbal agreement with a strong candidate, more than likely kept it secret, and got burned by his agent with the candidate who turned out not to be a loyal person.
He made a quick decision with Lambet and moved quickly to get in talks with a popular coachā¦really dont understand how this couldve been handled differently by Hill. Bad luck coupled with bad decisions by Houston who just burned 2 bridges between us and JMU.
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Shouldnāt have shut down the search process. Keep interviewing and give Houston a deadline. We would be ready to offer candidate #2 now instead of next week.
You get ink on the paper. Itās that simple.
lesson for Hill: donāt deal with pricks! and How Exactly Do You Know?
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He was never going to sign anything because he never intended to take the job. Hillās only mistake was not continuing the search until he did sign. Iām sure he has learned his lesson and wonāt let that happen again. A manās word should mean something and if Houstonās word had been worth anything continuing the search would have seemed like a mistake by Hill too. Itās easy to say he messed up in hindsight but I think overall he handled what turned out to be a bad situation pretty well.
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