Plan for firing Rick Stockstill

Coach Bill Lewis · October 24, 2015

Ten years at .500 is enough of a sample to know what you have. No one more than I has tried to keep a level perspective regarding Stockstill and dismissed calls for him to go, but the camels back has been broken. I have officially seen enough.

One stat you won't here from the Middle Tennessee athletic dept is that Rick Stockstill's teams have now allowed 40 or more points to non-power schools 18 times. That's an average of nearly two per year. Or that Stockstil's record when facing a QB ranked in the top 50 in passing is 6-26.

Middle Tennessee has never had a good defense under Stockstill sans Manny Diaz' last year. That, coincidentally, is the only season a Stockstill led team did not give up at least 40 points to at least one team.

Since our board is down, I'll say this for our MT folks. I intend to contact the President on Monday and put forth a plan to remove Stockstill. We don't have a lot of money, but we have been putting money away for facility upgrades. That money should be pulled from those plans to put together a buyout package for Stockstill. We can no longer support the piss poor efforts we've witnessed year after year where the team just simply fails to show up in certain stretches of the year and we play olay with the opposing team's offensive players. We didn't show up for Western and we didn't show up today.

Though this will hurt us in the arms race for facility upgrades we can't afford to continue doing what we are doing. Any energy and excitement has been sucked out of the program. The wind in the sails is gone and has been for some time. A change will infuse some energy back into the program which hopefully leads to increased revenue streams. Bottom line is Stockstill's tenure is officially a failure and we can no longer afford to keep him.

greenit · October 25, 2015

Stockstill is playing his son at QB correct? This situation sounds familiar, but I just can't put my finger on it.

UNT 90 Grad · October 25, 2015

Stockstill is playing his son at QB correct? This situation sounds familiar, but I just can't put my finger on it.

Stop dodging the point of this thread.

BillySee58 · October 25, 2015

Stockstill is playing his son at QB correct? This situation sounds familiar, but I just can't put my finger on it.

He's actually good

NT1978 · October 25, 2015

Ten years at .500 is enough of a sample to know what you have. No one more than I has tried to keep a level perspective regarding Stockstill and dismissed calls for him to go, but the camels back has been broken. I have officially seen enough.

One stat you won't here from the Middle Tennessee athletic dept is that Rick Stockstill's teams have now allowed 40 or more points to non-power schools 18 times. That's an average of nearly two per year. Or that Stockstil's record when facing a QB ranked in the top 50 in passing is 6-26.

Middle Tennessee has never had a good defense under Stockstill sans Manny Diaz' last year. That, coincidentally, is the only season a Stockstill led team did not give up at least 40 points to at least one team.

Since our board is down, I'll say this for our MT folks. I intend to contact the President on Monday and put forth a plan to remove Stockstill. We don't have a lot of money, but we have been putting money away for facility upgrades. That money should be pulled from those plans to put together a buyout package for Stockstill. We can no longer support the piss poor efforts we've witnessed year after year where the team just simply fails to show up in certain stretches of the year and we play olay with the opposing team's offensive players. We didn't show up for Western and we didn't show up today.

Though this will hurt us in the arms race for facility upgrades we can't afford to continue doing what we are doing. Any energy and excitement has been sucked out of the program. The wind in the sails is gone and has been for some time. A change will infuse some energy back into the program which hopefully leads to increased revenue streams. Bottom line is Stockstill's tenure is officially a failure and we can no longer afford to keep him.

Have you considered flying a banner?