I can see that, but whatâs considered ârespectableâ in football? Are we just talking going to a bowl every year?
I also think itâs harder to be successful in football fast than it is in basketball, you just need lightning in a bottle one year in basketball, look at FAUâŚ
If Mike hill thinks that and that is his strategy, then he sucks and should be fired too. Basketball success is achievable at Charlotte no matter what the state and status of football might be; be it past, present or future. Hire the right man to coach at Charlotte, with the right assistant coaches he needs, and watch basketball soar beyond where it was at its distant heights under Lutz. Jus because Judy failed twice, Hill failed 1.5 times, to hire the right basketball man, doesnât change that.
I really hope Hill doesnât look at it like this. And even if he does Iâm not so sure basketball is not dangerously close to going off the rails. The way we are losing over the last month & a half is approaching off the rails, coach is losing the team territory. If you allow this to continue into next season Halton is going to be very empty next season & I wouldnât be surprised if some key players transfer out. At this point Iâm not sure how Ron can recruit anyone better to replace them. And what happens if you donât make a change & football struggles under Biff. Not making a change could be the final nail in the ADâs coffin.
I donât know what Mike Hill thinks but Phil Dubois absolutely viewed sports as just another amenity of the university like a fitness center, pool or rock climbing wall. Fielding a team and staying in compliance with all the NCAA rules was the objective.
I think most people that were saying that were seeing it as get football respectable and kill it in basketball situation. Success on the court can be done easier, it has been done here, and itâs happened multiple times with different coaches. The bar is higher in basketball but it should be, and Iâm saying that as a football first guy.
Also weâre not respectable at the moment, weâre sub .500 in a one bid league. Lambert was better in conference his last year comparatively. He was .500 in conference; Sanchez has some work to get there.
Lastly it is sad to see us schedule to get Ws and not make the tournament. There are certain sports, like baseball and MSOC, where I expect us to schedule to get an at-large. It feels like the bar has been lowered to an unacceptable level with Sanchez. I liked Healy and Lambert too personally, but it was time to move on.
Barring a miracle turnaround it will be with Sanchez too.
FWIW, I donât disagree with anything you said. I was just trying to get in Mike Hillâs head.
Well since the BB season has gone off of the rails, then he has one hell of a dilemma on his hands.
Itâs hard to schedule period. Weâre not at a level where itâs beneficial for higher rated programs to schedule us, because it doesnât help them except to schedule âhomeâ wins for them. If we have to play all the tough games on the road, then it makes our home games a bigger necessity to get âwinsâ. The cost of travel is another obstacle to keep he budget in line, so we play regional schools or home and away games where we arenât having to buy games. The P5 schools and then to a lesser degree, a few lower conference teams get paid by TV games, that help defer the costs and make it easier to pad the schedules with higher OCC rated games. Hopefully we can find some better teams that will do home and away games to improve our schedules, but the hardest part my be finding teams that want to play us in Charlotte.
Schedule honestly doesnt matter if we canât win more games in conference. Thats why I didnt really care about our OOC - conference is what matters right now. You are right though as long as we keep sucking in conference going to be hard to get anyone of value to schedule us.
Whatâs tripping us up isnât the OOC right now itâs that we canât finish in the top 4 of our league - which isnt a good league.
I can get the perspective that we need to pick a sport to prioritize and if we pick one it probably should be football since it costs the most and success there carries us the farthest.
IF we had gone out and spent big money on football hire THEN I might go along with it. In stead what we did as go with a big hire that is actually carrying his own weight fiscally so to speak which should allow us to invest in basketball.
FWIW I never really expected to win in football - if we can just stay around bowl eligibility most years I am happy. Basketball is where I really want to win. Most of our older fans probably agree. I am not so sure that is the perspective of students that have been around since football started though.
clt says our offense is pass, pass, pass, pass, bad shot
Itâs worse than that because after pass #2 we often have a good look that we donât take so we can run the clock down some more and then take a bad shot.
Ron encourages them to take the good shots. We just donât have any players that can drive for layups (and make them) or have some that arenât consistently hitting the open 3âs.
I donât think Ronâs definition of a good shot and the players is the same thing. Itâs in the DNA of his philosophy. He says it in the post game. He loves it when a player passes up a good shot for a great shot. Problem is often times the great shot doesnât materialize and we end up forcing a contested shot or we get a shot clock violation.
As far as not having a player that can drive for layups or hit pen threes - in year 5 those are all his players.
This is dead on.
Against bad teamsâŚthe more you move the ballâŚyou can get a better shot the deeper into the possession.
HoweverâŚagainst GOOD defensive teamsâŚyou need to be ready to take ANY good shot as soon as you get it because a good team recovers and will rarely make a 2nd mistake on the same possession.
I still harp on our OOC scheduleâŚbut we learned that philosophy playing scrub teams. They broke down and gave up better shots and it worked. Once we got back to playing decent competitionâŚwhat we âlearnedâ doesnât work anymore.
And the coaching hasnât adjustedâŚand some may say ârefusesâ to adjust.
I donât have anything left to say. Itâs time but I doubt he gets canned. Heâll get another year imho.
Go baseball!!!
Then why do they pass on so many good shots? Why are players like igor able to hit tough shots earlier in the season but not later on?
Tough shots against ymca caliber defenses? Over exaggerating, but for emphasis