Originally Posted by touchdown123
Malone should pay it.
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Malone should pay it.
The future is bright. We don't buy out contracts so he has one more year. No matter how he does next year it is time to move on, energize the fan base. The timing is good in that it will align the arrival of a new coach with the completion of the new facilities. We need to pay a firm for the coaching search and be willing to increase pay. Our standards need to be winning conference championships and making it to and winning NCAA tourney games. This lines up with all the speeches that VanDeVelde and Reneau have been giving with regards to raising our standards as the purpose of the new facility. Bowls in football, Tourney in basketball are the goals. Last years high win count in basketball resulted in nothing, no NCAA (or even NIT), it should be seen as what it was puffed up numbers with poor scheduling. In basketball it only helps you to schedule hard by preparing you for conference play while building your RPI. If you can't win some of them the team isn't good enough and changes need to be made.
Ain't that the truth.
Nope, but I think a video board would add to the atmosphere and put a few more butts in the seats, which recruits and C-USA would like...
We seriously have a buyout on Rupp? I thought this was the last year on his contract?
If we don't beat Hawaii, we won't have 100 fans in the TAC for our last home stand...
Does anyone have any knowledge of how Malone feels about the situation? We need Malone as a supporter, but he has to be questioning things right now. They are friends and this puts him in a tough situation. I am sure Rupp is a nice guy and I really wish this would have worked, but it just hasn't. I hope Malone and BVDV are talking and this can be figured out. On a VERY micro scale, this is similar to Oregon - in that whatever Malone says is going to go.
Not any more.
Problems between him and administration or problems between him and Rupp? While I do think Rupp needs to go, I don't want to lose Karl's support.
No person can be allowed to be beyond the control of the administration (even if the administration is bordering on incompetence). If that's the only way Malone is willing to be involved, then he needs to be shown the short exit out the door.
You are correct, but has that happened. I would hate to lose him.
No. But if necessary, advocates for it are mounting.
I am still waiting to see how our administration manages our program. They are still very new (AD is anyway). The tough decisions are coming. I would be very impressed if they took the initiative and let Rupp go after this year. That would tell me they realize we are not headed in the right direction and it is worth it for the program not to go another year that way despite the buyout. On the other hand, if they choose to let him finish out the contract and then let him go it shows that they made the right decision and they chose, for budget reasons, not to buy him out. Finally, if they keep him around after next year, no matter how they do, that would be a failure on their part and would damage my opinion of their leadership ability and decision making.
That seems a reasonable and balanced view and I agree.
I, also, agree.
Losing...how to break the cycle? Easy answer - win!!!!
Losing...how to break the cycle? Tough answer - Basketball has always been a game of streaks. It's true in scoring in single games and it's true in winning streaks during seasons. I also think it's true over multiple seasons. In the past, we've lost in streaks and we've won in streaks, even this season we've done that.
Right now, we need to beat Hawaii tonight. I will be there to cheer the DAWGS toward the win. Maybe this win will be the start of a winning streak that will break the cycle.
Another loss. Six straight. No interest whatsoever.
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