Our administration has done a pretty good job running people off from Halton. Man Iād love to see a home run hire and get that place electric again.
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Agree. This is an extremely important hire for the future of the entire athletic department. Weāre teetering on the edge of falling so far behind we will never catch back up. Fan support is so important now with NIL and the way TV viewership and networks control realignment and who wins and loses. Get it wrong for a 4th time in a row and the few fans that are left are going to completely lose hope and move on. Get it right along with the AAC move and Biff hopefully kickstarting football and we can maybe start catching back up after 18 years of being left behind.
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This is probably the most important hire in the history of our athletic department. Miss on this and we may never come back as you said.we have too many resources and too much to offer to hire another unproven assistant. We can get a winner, we just need to do it.
If Mike Hill hires an unproven assistant coach then we know he is a Chapel Hill infiltrator. I hope he proves me wrong.
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Itās a conspiracy! 
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Id say biff is way more important bc its football and bc basketball is a quicker fix.
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I thought you were joking with this Chapel Hill conspiracy the first time I saw that you post it, but Iāve seen you post it more and more. Please tell me you are not serious.
I think if we hire an unproven assistant itās more of an indication that we are broke than anything else. We need to be offering at least $1 million per year to compete in the AAC. If we try to get by & go cheap thatās not a good sign. Especially after hiring a football coach who really doesnāt need our money & is paying some of his assistants salaries out of his pocket.
Itās hard to make money in this business if you donāt spend the money required to get good coaches.
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I still donāt get this. There are 350+ D1 schools a d our budget is #70. We are not broke.
I am pretty worried about the candidate pool at this time of the season. We either go after a retread thats out of coaching, an up and coming assistant, or a HC from a lower level program thats on his way up. The more I think about it, what kind of a HC would we be getting if he were willing to leave his team just months before the season?
It started out as a joke but if our bball coach hire is another tank job I wouldnāt consider it impossible. We hired an athletic director who is a graduate of a university that has done literally everything in Itās power to keep us down. How did that slide by? He convinced two or three alumni heās a Florida or Clemson fan.
I absolutely would not put it past CHP or UNC to orchestrate something like that.
And it would not be impossible to think that the directive is āwe donāt care about baseball, we donāt care that much about football, and we certainly donāt care about the Olympic sports, but you cannot let basketball be good again.ā in fact excelling at other sports is the perfect smoke screen.
Wild and out there? It is, for sure, but if youāve ever studied history, know that nothing is impossible.
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I donāt get it either. With our budget I donāt understand why we spend so little on coaches compared to some of our peers. It makes me wonder where the money is actually going. On top of that we were like top 25 on that list of most subsidized public school athletic departments. What are we spending so much money on that we canāt pay $1-1.5 million for a good basketball coach. Maybe we will. I would do whatever it takes to get Chris Mack or another proven retread in here and give us some instant credibility. Would also be happy with Bob Richey or Siddle from UNCW but I do wonder if the timing will make it very hard to get someone like that away from their existing programs.
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Facilities debt.
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Everyone has that?
Not sure if everyone does, or at the same level. Iām just answering the question.
Also, I donāt put too much into these AD level financials. It really comes down to how they account for scholarship related expenses.
It continues to amaze me how uninformed some of you really are when it comes to finances and college sports.
That and some always revert to the boogeyman theory when something goes wrong. For this theory to even have any validity then Sanchez must have been involved. You know he said sure I will come there and tank the job as well just to screw over them for UNC.
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Most large schools have all or a large portion of their scholarships endowed while we only have a small percentage. That is probably our largest expense that some schools do not have to worry about anymore.
I know people want us to spend big on our coaches, but if we do not have it then you can not spend.
As much as a hate Chapel Hill, I can assure you no one there wakes up every day saying how can I screw over Charlotte today. Also, we have an interim coach, we may not hire immediately.
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No but they didnt want us to get football, they dont want us to get a medical school or a law school. They dont have to think it, their actions show where they want us
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And they passed a rule that required us to remove our AD Jeff Mullins. Too many examples to pass off. Sending UNC reps to OUR campus to rally students against football can not be excused!!
Me? When? I hope not