Josh

My buddy just called them the Miami Cocaines and I couldn't think of a better nickname

Pregaming over! Which at this age means a nap so I can stay up for the game.

To everyone complaining about this thread, this thread keeps all the other threads clean of this discussion. So you're welcome

I'm not worried about ancient history. We've already broken so many ancient records this season, what's one more?

GAME DAY!!!!

Bears going for it on 4th down from the 21 was interesting. And the Rams intercepting the ball on 4th down was dumb. That's one of my biggest football pet peeves. Why intercept it down the field on 4th down??

I think they wanted to find a reason so they did.

If you're walking that far during the games make sure to stay hydrated with lots of beer

Uhh the AD thought Devries was a good idea. Can we have somebody else do it instead?

You are really great at deflecting and making up facts about people to suit your narrative. I never said to fire him with no plan. I've worked at the same company for 16 years. You said you have facts of places that have fired people early and suffered from not getting a good coach. Then you provided nothing except a theory of future events. You honestly have brought nothing but fear mongering, hand wringing, and making up facts about other people. Then you try to talk to me about having wits? Lol, you really are precious. You think you're smart. Good luck with that.

Soooo your evidence for your theory is the theory itself. Omg that's precious. Honestly I haven't looked at who I would hire at this time. But I don't allow fear of the unknown to scare me into staying put when the current situation is embarrassingly bad. I keep working and trying to fix situations until you get what works.

I missed it. What schools did you tell us fired coaches too early and now can't find a good coach?

No doubt but this is my daydream!

I love the facts, thanks. I do see a big difference between 05-06 and 07-08. Almost $7M As for the buyout money, I know it's not sitting on a table right now. But I also know there are some furious big time donors who will be stopping their contributions and would be willing to help pay to fix things.

You're right, nobody is taking the job mid season. So he stays to the end then takes a leave for per$onal reasons and we hire a new coach. I'm not actually advocating for him to lose his job today. He can stay until March 8th lol

I feel like you have to spend the money and I'm curious where you came up with the revenue increase projection. Staying the course means less ticket revenue, less concessions, less prime time games, less merchandising. Making a flash hire would increase all these. It seems like it could be a higher increase than you projected, maybe $8M or more. In that case your roi could pay for itself in 4 years. No reason to wallow in poor basketball because we're scared to spend money

It's not just the win loss record that matters. I understand that builds take time in spite of Cignatty's freak success. But I need to see things in the losses to make me feel like there's a bright future. I need to see hustle in losses. I need to see smart basketball in losses. I need to see a cohesive team and promise in losses. Seeing what we've seen under Devries includes none of these things. It's sloppy basketball, little hustle, bad plays. Where's the optimism? Is it true that we should accept bad basketball without potential simply because a calendar says so? I can't get behind that.

Poor Devries. He's such a victim of the administration and fans. You and I do have something similar here. You think I'm dumb for holding the coach accountable to the results on the court. I think you're dumb for not holding the coach accountable and blaming the fans for poor results. Fan blaming is so Mike Davis.

Lol this team is a disaster, my bad. I picked a terrible roster I guess. I didn't prepare this team correctly for the games I suppose. My gameplan that I had the team perform was clearly underwhelming. Maybe I should do better with them at practice. This is hysterical

Yes, the problem with this team is the fans. Get out of here with that stuff.

I don't buy that argument. I know it's popular to say that you can't get a good coach if you fire one too early but that's just fear mongering. Sure you could

Why is it too early? This is a freaking disaster. This isn't the kind of job where you can grow into a good coach. I'm not convinced DeVries could become one anyway. So why wait?

Where's that damn cookie??

I feel pretty embarrassed. Does that work?

Holy hell, this is baaaaaad basketball. Who do we get to hire the next coach? Dolson chose this guy. Quinn picked Woodson. Clearly neither of them can be trusted. Our basketball program is pretty much a circus, maybe we let the fans pick the next coach with an online poll?