Deserthoozier

On the surface, seems a bit desperate. If we’re dipping toes in the mud, why not just go Will Wade - arguably top 20 X’s and O’s coaching, undisputedly top 5 for rolling in the dirt! Less risk on both counts. We suffer severely from day late, dollar short syndrome. Here’s to hoping Kenny immediately comes with some dudes who can play team ball and have character - and keep th pipelines open. Don’t know for certain, but my sense is that Kenny is commonly hired due to potential recruiting prowess rather than coaching acumen.

And/or coaches hire assistants specifically because they know how they operate and who they are connected to…for better and worse.

This is distressing. Other programs, even those with new personnel and complete rebuilds, seem to be way ahead in nailing down staff and player commits at this point in time. Hope not, but perhaps Devries OPUD’ed (over promised, under delivered) what his ‘package’ would be (who he could bring in player and staff wise). If Cig is the model…he seemed to have a lot more wrapped up early on…filled the offices and depth charts while Allen’s seat was still warm - and then over delivered. This program is desperate for immediate success. Giving Tucker $3M in addition to Pops salary seems kinda sus - I guess we’ve mismanaged sooo much administratively, what should stop us from mismanaging the budget. If nothing else, the Devreis will certainly walk away with generational wealth - here’s to hoping they earn it!

We aren’t this, not sure we’ve ever been close, and not sure we ever can be. Could’ve got Pearl last year…sigh.

Mike Woodson. 100% objective empirical data showed he should’ve been shown the door after greatly underperforming in year 3 and NEVER considered for a year 4… in particular when you had Pearl and May in the wings for the job!! It was 100% management malfeasance to bring him back. (mods maybe open that thread back up…I think many aren’t done venting about the 5h1t show we were forced to endure for another wasted year).

They (Louisville) are a serious bball program that is willing to do whatever it takes to win…now! Past, current and future transgressions are simply a calculated cost of doing business. Just WIN baby and no one talks about the prostitutes, bags of money, bribery, other sex scandals and all the rest. They know this, so go all in. 6 month reboot and they on! Also, they’ve got the reboot process down to a science since they’ve had to execute so many times.

Man, did Bubba do Dolly a solid by screwing over WVU! Imagine the meltdown if it: 1) it were Brownell…with his best team at Clemson, dropping to McNeese in the firsty 2) WVU sneaks in, and Devries drops a similar game in the first

Let’s do the first one too? Have heard Dare-E-Uhn and Daren? ”Getting to know you…”

11th. Pretty similar actually…room for optimism!

Not certain how “successful” one would define our athletic department over the past 20 years, albeit this past year in football as an exception. Especially true in our premier bball program. If you don’t think the folks responsible for forcing Woody in the first place, and in particular demanding a 4th year — and fully funding it…don’t feel some semblance of culpability for the failure…then it’s beyond reason. You’re correct, they’re not going to hard ball (threaten in you’re terms) them to cough up again…but they certainly could sweet talk them, and even say — thanks for your support, we haven’t been successful and here’s what we need to in order to be. To postulate that it was a done deal long ago and they were all in on it again…with…Devries, nonetheless isn’t true. The money was there, Devries wasn’t.

We are NEBRASKA (football)! Go corn!!

Not necessarily… Dolson very likely said…we did it your way last year, now look where it got us. I need a commitment to make things work and bring anyone in at this point - do I have your commitment ongoing?

The Wink was code from insiders and big donors, posted on here, that ‘we got our guy’…just everyone had been directed to not talk, so they winked when asked about coach hiring status. It blew up on here part serious, but mostly farce.

That’s what we’re about to find out! Just seems a bit high risk…to point to excuses and say what might have been if they had…

Oh joy! Let’s go ‘all in’ on projected success and should’ve done …absent a couple of excuses.

Hey, cmon with the pessimism! Their barely miss was slightly closer than ours.

Same year end results. They just got slightly more screwed over by Bubba and Co. than us.

More pack line!! Can’t wait. And, we get another round of head assistant Ostrom - man that dude was an offensive juggernaut - feared throughout. Maybe they’ll keep Kenya again and make it full circle! Let’s keep Armond Hill too - the godfather of rest and recovery!! Let’s run it back AGAIN boyz!! Oh yeah!! With our resources, we’ll def be right back in those play in games…once he gets a couple of years to bring in his own guys and the kids learn to adjust to that super confusing pack line and slow pace.

Conference Tournament Champions

Every significant win Dusty gets is gonna be salt in the wound…from here until eternity!!

Imagine if... McCollum goes to Iowa....and crushes it! May continues to flourish at Michigan and gets regular Sweet 16s and Final 4's! Painter and Izzo keep up with their high level averages. And, we bring on Brownell...who reverts back to his SEC mean - of regular low to middle of the conference finishes - and a top 3-4 in conference and small run in the tourney every 6-7 years or so. This scenario, or similar, could very well be the straw that breaks the camel's back for many deeply ingrained long time fans. The unwavering fan and booster support that has been a huge asset -- with each successive miss it becomes more fragile. Perhaps we already are there, but it would certainly be a text book case study for Sports Management classes on administrative mismanagement and institutional dysfunction.

K

This is ridiculous, unless the contract explicitly states the conference the team plays in to have any relationship to the rest of the terms outlined - which is incredibly unlikely. The university made a unilateral change in athletic conferences based its perception of perceived value and benefit. Almost certainly it didn’t change the terms of his contract to coach the team. He can’t just say ‘well, let’s renegotiate my $4M annual and $15M buy out b/c the B1G is much more competitive and will require a lot more travel. How about we just lower the buyout to $5M and call it even!’

Worst announcing EVER, including the game when Bill Walton was tripping and didn’t mention basketball the entire broadcast! SWAC announcers more prepared and talented. B1G needs to do better. It has been like Bardo x 4!

Only took 3.75 yrs to make a small but significant adjustment. Tough to figure that out on the golf course or cigar lounge!