So I know it will be a while before we hire someone to replace Hill, but I wonder how long until we can realistically expect to hear some news about the search? Like are we using a search firm? Who will be involved in the hire? At some point, who are the candidates? I know I’m being impatient, but this hire is so extremely important it just seems like the University might want to give us some updates if they want donors to stay engaged and interested in supporting the AD.
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I want to focus my thoughts on the aspect of picking coaches in men’s basketball and football
I want an AD that understands recruiting, and our history, it seems that we had our best recent success in both sports when we played an up tempo offensive game under Healy and Lutz
We can’t seem to recruit enough talent to run a power running game in football and can’t seem to get enough quality bigs to run a physical style of set in basketball
Pick coaches that play styles that we can recruit to, undersized spread offenses in football, get an undersized QB and sling it all over the field, in basketball play a three guard offense with undersized three point shooters
Hire coaches that play styles that we can recruit to, and that players want to play in, recruiting is more difficult than it’s ever been, don’t complicate it by playing styles that are difficult to learn and hard to recruit into
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Fire everyone. Everyone. Reboot the entire athletic department. Nothing we are doing is working. I’ve never seen an athletic department waste as much money time and goodwill earning opportunities as this one does. It’s the most underachieving thing I can think of in the entire realm of college sports.
Why are we paying a former AD the entire remainder of his contract with no offset whatsoever?? Why are we waiting for months to hire a new AD? Why is our football stadium so far behind in both funding and construction?? Why were there so many roadblocks to get the baseball expansion done?
Mismanagement at every turn. If you told me someone was intentionally trying to sabotage our athletic department, I don’t think they could do a much better job than what we’ve seen.
I’m done making excuses for everything that goes on in Charlotte Athletics. The only program that’s worth a damn is men’s soccer and even they choke. I just think that they’re irrelevant enough that they get messed with very little. Otherwise that program would be absolute ass too.
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clt says we are known for doing everything the right way. no scandals, budget is in order.
time to pull a costanza and go wild. no classes at all for any athlete, bonuses for points/goals, use peds, who cares?
During the Hal Wissel era he would brag about how clean a program we were. If you hear that it means we’re losing!
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I agree with all of this. It’s becoming more difficult every year to believe we will ever be good at football or basketball again. It’s hard to go this long without accidentally hiring a good basketball or football coach, but somehow we’ve managed to do it. It really does start to feel like we are trying to do everything possible to suck at the only sports that really matter. Hill shouldn’t be getting paid his entire buyout. He should have been fired for cause, because he finished off this athletic department. Judy had it on life support, but Hill pulled the damn plug.
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I don’t think the NCAA even know we exist
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Agreed MH, great point… Hill has really taken us to the bottom.
Then we should be able to get away with anything.
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Is there anything left that’s illegal?
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Yes, but the newly created College Sports Commission (CSC,) - born of the House agreement to enforce NIL, rev share, and roster limits - is already meeting resistance.
I mean this the most respectful way I can say it, but it’s pretty clear that we have not adjusted well to this new environment in college athletics. We need significant change.
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If in change, you mean obscene amounts of money coming into our athletic department, then yes we desperately need that kind of change. Because that is what’s driving the college athletics car now, whether we like it or not. It’s reality now and it’s sickeningly sad.
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For sure. But we can either stop watching or accept the new system.
We def need to get better at bringing new money in.
We need to hire whoever it takes to get us a CLT version of the “FedEx or PapaJohns” relationship. Hire someone with the relationships and/or means to get this done.
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Money. Thats important items 1-10.
Nothing else really matters. Of we raise enough money we don’t have to take the UGA type of games and bowl chances go up. If we raise more money we don’t have to take a swing at a coach like Biff. If we raise more money we can market in city better. If we raise more money we can stop milking our existing fans that are left.
Literally everything gets easier.
We need to get our operational budget up to aac mid level at minimum. We need to get nil funds up for football and men’s basket but also our more successful programs in baseball and soccer need some. We need to be able to pay our coaches and their staffs league averages. We need to be able to finish football expansion in the other side.
If the next AD is working with the same financial constraints the results won’t change no matter who the hire is.
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Reading this thread cracks me up. Everyones response is saying we need money, we need money, #1-10. We have been trying to do this forever. This isn’t a novel or original ideal ,ie. beating your head against the wall etc……Just want to put some facts out there for all the guys that yell, no more pay games etc… We lost to GA by 32 and got $1.9m and lost to S Fla by 28 for free. The new AD, if he or she wants to succeed, should be looking for as many $1.5-1.9m paydays as they can find until it is allowed. If we want to build a program and stadium expansion, (not sure why we are even thinking for this now) we need money. It’s not coming from BofA, Nucor, Lowes, Duke, etc.. until they think we have a product their clients want to come to a game day experience and see.
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I think what we are saying is we need an AD thet can crack that nut. Most other city based schools - UAB, Memphis, Houston etc have a much tighter relationship with their corporate community than we do. Our AD couldn’t crack Honeywell, but Beth Kriglers development team did and got support for the academic side.
You aren’t wrong until we can figure things out we need the buy games and such but it’s always a chicken or the egg with this we need to win to get money but we need money to win. Fuller once told me you have to be able to sell a vision to a handful of folks that can fund the turn around then you will get money to sustain it from everyone else.
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clt says we are too focused on academics
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