Green Mean

Is it weird that a statement like this came out? It seems during GM's NIT run the rumors were there but nothing was really and truly confirmed or spoken about officially until after the tournament.

I also think it's a school that if you are having success then it's a stepping stone to an even bigger profile job and opportunity.

That's fair. But at some point the school, administration, AD etc need to re-assess everything and realize that we are a pretty good basketball school and we've had legitimate and quantifiable success in it and if we shift our priorities and resources more towards it then greater things can happen. It doesn't mean we completely ignore football but let's have basketball as the catalyst of everything else. Tough I know but it's what we should strive towards to IMO.

This search must be extensive and wide. We are now a very good and very desirable mid-major program with 45K+ students located in a top 4 media market. This search should not be taken lightly, and I hope Mosely doesn't eff this up. We are and should be a basketball school.

It's probably not what people want to see and here but given the blowback that has happened and how outsiders giggled at this, I don't think this would ever happens again here...at least I hope.

To be fair, this isn't the reason why he is leaving. He's going to get a major pay raise and play in a major conference that NT can't even think about matching. And I might be wrong here, but I think even in the AAC standards, Hodge doesn't get as much as others.

I think highly of Hodge and think he's a great and will be a great coach for a big program down the line but I feel it may be a bit early no? Obviously from a financial standpoint, he's setting up wealth for a few generations by going now but if I'm a WVU fan I'm not sure I love this hire. McCasland was here for 6 years and did way more than Hodge before he left. That said I have no ill will towards him or anybody in the business. As a former radio giant and scholar and current podcaster used to say..."it's called the way it is."

What a let down and crap of a first half. There seemed to be a little more buzz in the arena given the record, a Saturday game and UTSA as the opponent. Yeah their defense hasn't been great but the offense has been completely clueless and careless. FIX THIS SHIT RICH!!

For a 4K crowd it was pretty lively but would have hoped more students come out since the semester has already started. I don't know why we can't have better attendance for MBB. It's the best product we have and it's a sport and experience you can cater to the masses including the casuals. It's indoors, in-game experience is decent, games are done in about 2 hours and more times than not you're going to see the home team win. I know we have longstanding attendance issues and apathy, but I really think the university should do whatever it takes and latch on to basketball and just pouring all the resources and marketing to it.

He also knows the landscape of college athletics in this country and overlooking that is also part of his job description and whether he likes it or not he has to care.

I think it would be rare to see a college football HC hire for less than a 5 year contract so it would make sense.

It might not be the worst idea from a NT standpoint b/c imagine getting beat like this at home against them....it'll be 10x worse.

I think because if we can ever figure it out and know and understand how to run a proper athletics program then I do think anything is possible. I don't mean to say that there isn't upside here and things cannot change but taking out the financial part of things, the fact that this school hardly ever makes the right hire is just baffling. It feels that so many other schools with so much less are able to do so much more and it just takes finding and hiring the right coaches and program builders.