MeanGreenZen

Ugh, no high school kids.

Something like this is really the only shot we have to be competitive. P4 political power will probably never allow this happen. http://baumgartner.house.gov/media/press-releases/baumgartner-introduces-restore-college-sports-act-bring-sanity-and-fairness

Wow! That message board is claiming that Jason Edwards got $1.5M from Providence! Our finances aren’t even in the same universe as those guys.

Dusty May still landing the best players in the American Conference! Would love to see Dr. Ob grabbing the best guys he played against last season. A Mean Green Horizon League All Star team could dominate the American next season.

So $1.2M in for Ross and $500K out for Dr. Ob? So we just made $700K? How many fajitas will that buy?

Vito now reporting that Lorient is not officially in the portal. My guess is Dr. Ob is withholding his paperwork until he atleast has a chance to make his pitch to stay. Unless his pitch includes $200K, Lorient will eventually be gone.

Hurt my feelings when he left us. But how must Vanderbilt feel? Dude was a beloved, featured scorer on an academically prestigious SEC school that made the NCAA tournament. And he leaves that for Providence?

D Rob too obvious. I am calling him: Dr. Ob.

I am not saying he is worth more than our entire NIL budget, I am just saying that plenty of richer programs are going to be willing to pay him that much.

I would go to WV over Michigan if I were him. Ross featured him. Dusty May barely played him. This is a tough loss because not only is he a great player, but he is also a very happy, friendly positive influence in the locker room. We had no chance to keep him though as he will easily command more money than our entire NIL budget.

An NIT championship would have been the most outstanding bullet point on Hodge’s resume so far and he did have a moral obligation to his players to finish out the season. And if he HAD quit before the end of the tournament, that could have been used against him in recruiting at West Virginia by other coaches. “You want to play for Ross Hodge? He has a history of quitting on his players before the end of their season.” All that said, Ross left this place better than he found it and he got offered so much more money than we could pay him that he really didn’t have a choice.

Doesn’t matter what you drive. Can you get there? Getting there for UK, Ark, A&M is probably Sweet 16 or better. For us, getting there is 20 wins, Top 4 conference regular season, advancing a few rounds in conference championship and making a postseason tournament. Every few years those schools expect to contend for a national title. Every few years I expect our team to make the NCAAs (and maybe win a game or two). We will all be delighted if the new coach can deliver that.

Yeah but he left. Arkansas and Kentucky lost their head coaches last season too. My point is that no matter where you are on the college basketball revenue hierarchy, you are going to lose your coach sometimes. Good programs keep winning. Are we a good program now? I’m still buying season tickets and making my small monthly donation to NIL so I hope so.

I’m more interested in grabbing experienced college players out of the portal. Let’s enter a Horizon League ALL STAR team into the American Conference next season.

If Texas A&M (which has as much or more $ than any college in the country) can lose their coach, then any school can lose their coach. Losing coaches is part of being a big-time basketball program. Just wait until Grant McCasland gets offered a top tier SEC or Big 10 job. It is going to happen and when it does, he will be riding the next dirt storm out of Lubbock. The coaches and players will come and go, but can the program sustain winning?