Over $1m. Igor got around $600k from Tennessee I believe. Thats around the total amount of money I heard we had available. I don’t know for certain.
I think his message has been pretty clear that we need more money to compete. He bangs that drum constantly when I hear him talk.
Edit: Memphis has the most money by far and they’re doing the winning.
Igor was $600k
DJ was 350k
Snake was 250k
These numbers come straight from Fearne
So twice what we raised for 3 players. No idea what we gave Graves or any of the newcomers but we certainly didn’t spend it all.
We need to raise more but if utsa can land a guy like spears with a glorified hs gym and minimal nil, we should be able to do better with what we have
So are you saying Mike Hill should have chose a coach that speaks American and can recruit north American?
Recruiting is mostly about $$$$
After recovering from the flu. And catching up with Niner nation .net, the greatest fan site on the planet.
And if you disagree
I
WILL
FIGHT YOU
Now that I have reaffirmed by loyalty and love for this site.
I just want to remind you all that Mike Hill is not getting fired.
Of course he is not getting fired. Why would he? He is exceeding the expectations that have been given to him.
That in no way is a response towhat i said.
He just signed an extension so he is good for at least 3 yrs
Poggi had three years left I believe. We fired him as he was trending to have the second best season in program history.
Mike should be fired. Yesterday. Basketball is a disaster.
I would agree. Albin, if he ends up being a home run but regardless, the main job of an AD is to fundraise, and hoops aside, hill has failed in that regard
If we are saying MH can’t be fired because he just got an extension and the AD’s main job is fund raising and Corp exposure, we need to hire a GM type to take care of “operations” of the top revenue sports. Seems like a lot of schools are going in this direction. This person can pay for themselves if we just stop hiring Coaches, getting rid of them, while still paying their remaining contracts. He can handle the university business, ie BoT meetings etc… but he needs to spend every waking hour in uptown glad handing and away from Lacrosse fields
2024-2025 the year we sucked at everything. Mike Hill with an extension same year.
We just have to wonder why? Who is pulling the strings? Who wants us to be bad? There isn’t a serious athletic program in the country where Mike Hill would still be employed.
This crap is on Mike. Year 7 of Ron/Fearne yet it’s year 1 of 5 on his new deal. Pure insanity.
You are basically saying we need to hire Mike Hill a real athletic director and keep him around because otherwise, he gets a windfall golden parachute to not work. Sounds familiar
Don’t blame Mike or anyone in leadership. We need to blame ourselves, the fanbase.
Leadership is giving us what our fanbase is tolerating. We are tolerating absolute failure in our 2 major sports, the only 2 sports that really move the needle for our university. Sure, it’s fun to win in other sports but they are not relevant.
Do we complain when we lose in basketball and football? Yes, who doesn’t? There is a difference in complaining and demanding success from the institution.
Everyone needs to ask the question, how is success being measured at Charlotte. Yes, the success metrics matter and they exist. We just don’t see them other than the constant mantra of winning championships.
We need to quit being naive, educate ourselves a little, and stop thinking our leadership at Charlotte and above are targeting the same success metrics the fanbase desires.
Can anyone identify the success metrics at Charlotte?
Win championships? We have 18 sports teams. Do we measure success equally across all 18 sports? I believe so.
If so, I believe there needs to be success metrics for football and basketball independently. Most of the time you get what you aim for and demand. I believe that holds true at Charlotte.
I’ll give you with basketball it seems like we don’t have a metric to define success.
In football though we have shown a willingness to cut bait when failure was clear. We’ve done it twice.
And we just made a hire that is about winning.