Fire Mike Hill

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That was in Conference USA and the majority of the sports were with coaches he did not hire. The justification for worst AD:

  1. We have one of the lowest athletic budgets in the conference, which is a direct result of the lack of fundraising coming from his department
  2. We have losing records in both basketball and football since he became AD
  3. There appears to be no plan for NIL, other schools in our conference have embraced it, we have not
  4. The stadium expansion plan has been handled terribly
  5. There is major disfunction in the athletic program because of a combination of no leadership and poor hiring over the years
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The coach quit because of the lack of resources that were being provided to him. Whether you liked Sanchez or not, he brought in quality players.

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Those two sports are the only ones that matter. Also, fundraising has been a failure, as well as multiple botched hires

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This cannot be said enough. If it was posted 500 times a day, it wouldn’t be enough.

Basketball and football are ALL that matters. That’s the whole job. There isn’t a serious program in the country that would allow an AD with losing records in both major sports to remain after seven years, even if every other sport was winning conference championships.

IT’S THE WHOLE DAMN JOB.

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This ^^^^^

Its true, and no disrepect to the student athletes in other sports but, to be considered an big time athletic program the only two sports that matter are mens basketball and football, concentrate on what moves the needle

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Actually being a big time program means striving for excellence in ALL sports.

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Eventually but if you treat football and men’s basketball the same as soccer, you will not be big time. It needs to be football, then MBB, then everything else way down there

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I am a big soccer fan but I have to agree. FB and BB matter far more.

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Yes, aware of the pecking order but a look at who wins NCs illustrates P5 usually triumphs. Of the 34 NCAA championships (not counting FCS, of course), 31 are P5 schools.

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Because they win and make money in the big 2, and that money can be used for the other sports

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Yep, just find it humorous that so-called big programs only focus on football and men’s basketball when in actuality they dominate everything.

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Last time I checked we weren’t spending $70 million on the soccer stadium expansion.

Basketball and football aren’t being deprived of resources and time. There have just been bad hires made.

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Basketball absolutely is. The locker rooms are atrocious, tgey dont get priority with practice time. @ninerbasketball16 can further elaborate how poorly theyre treated

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Used to be that way. Now that they will have to start putting basketball and football money back into those programs by paying the players it will be interesting to watch.

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100% we are behind other schools in the conference with resources. We lose potential recruits daily because we cannot compete. Our facilities, scholarship amounts, meals, all bottom of the conference. This falls on athletics and fundraising. Which is under the oversight of the AD.

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That may be the case, but I was responding to a post that claimed we were treating men’s basketball and football the same as soccer. I’m pretty sure the majority of the time and resources we have are going to men’s basketball & football.

That is certainly fine with me because if football is successful, that frees up more for all the other sports. Unfortunately, football has been a black hole for us since we started.

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How much longer are we going to ignore the elephant in the room. Mike Hill is killing our athletics department by poor decisions. We cannot take another season of his leadership in any sport.

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Our fan base is fractured. Too many people think Mike’s doing a great job because softball and basket weaving are doing well.

If we could get all of our rabid supporters to do a letter writing campaign to the Chancellor, we could make for some real change. I’ll even send in a check for $2,500 to be cashed upon Mike’s dismissal to put my money where my mouth is. But we won’t do that. Lil Ole UNCC just can’t seem to get those darn tricky coach hirings right! Mike’s a great leader and tryin’ hard though!

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You guys know i will. I tell people all the time to write hill, or gaber. I wrote hill so many enails that he metwith me so he does read them. We cant just say no one cares. They do not like negative attention soour voices matter

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I will do the same thing. A check for $2500 to be cashed upon his dismissal.