Jared has a high-level background in basketball and is 2-for-2 on basketball hires. Plus, he is still buddy/buddy with Thin Wren, who might be the best in the country at hiring basketball coaches. I’m sure Thin Wren gave Jared a list of coaching names to investigate too.
Plus, if I was Jared, I might pay our new head coach way less than Grant/Ross and use the savings for men’s basketball NIL.
I mean will that coach’s life be much different making $400K a year than it would be making $800K a year?
That much money towards NIL at our level can make a HUGE impact on the quality of players that the new coach lands.
Robson would be in our price range. According to this article he is making about $400K a year. I think Ross was making $750K.
https://www.cleveland.com/sports/college/2024/11/what-kind-of-new-deal-is-coach-daniyal-robinson-receiving-from-cleveland-state-terry-pluto.html
Softball has regressed over the last few seasons. I know we moved up to the American, but aside from Wichita State the addition of those programs isn't much different than playing in C-USA.
Savage's best season was her freshman year. Since then she has regressed. Why haven't the coaches developed her by now? And why don't we have better arms in the pitching rotation? Our batting is okay compared to the past few seasons, but it isn't outstanding. Personally, I saw a lot of potential in Epperson, and hated to watch her hitting on us when we played Wichita State. DeLong should have keep that girl. Maybe DeLong has taken this program as far as he can. I don't see us challenging for the AAC title this year. DeLong just didn't address enough of the issues in the off-season.
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