With that being said, now...in 2024..I don't care how long it took Kermit to go on his run. He did it and he proved that it could be done. IIRC he had to deal with some sanctions when he took the job (not 100% sure on this but I think so) but he still should have been fired. By the way, don't compare Kermit's ineffectiveness to Mcdevitt's. McDevitt took our basketball program on its worse 3 year stretch in the history of the program after he was hired.
Kermit proved what was possible here at MT, regardless of how long it took him.
And bookmark all you want. I'll bookmark it too and we can gladly bump this after another failure of a season. The starters and rotation of this team is going to be the majority of players who have already been here. We both know that and you trying to posture otherwise is disingenuous at best. The new transfers brought in are not even close to being enough to get this team over the hump. You seem to forget this team won 1 road game last year and was 12-19 against D1 competition. Who exactly do you think is going to make some huge difference for us? Does this coaching staff have a record of coaching players up and players improving season-by-season at MT? (Rhetorical question)
I guess 4 (of KD’s) players being dismissed for drugs in his first offseason and a COVID season didn’t happen. KD has his excuses for the late start, and NM certainly has his. I’m not saying you have to excuse both cases. I appreciate your consistency in that.
Where you lose me is you say I wanted KD fired before his run, but since he did go on his run, I’m glad it happened and they didn’t fire him. Why isn’t that applied here? If losing 4 players and COVID isn’t a legitimate excuse for bad seasons then we will forever agree to disagree. You also use the injury excuse for KD which is the same argument for last season that you speak so badly of.
You want him fired, and refuse to see any optimism. And I can see your side on not having any reason to be optimistic given the track record. But the ignorance of transferring 6 players with D1, starting experience as a move in the right direction for this season (I don’t disagree with the need for homegrown development and the future) is my biggest point of contention. I have many episodes talking about the team with multiple media personalities and the coach himself so I’ll save you the time. I’m asking you — why do you believe this team is the exact same as last year? I would make the argument that if this team doesn’t win 23+ this would be his biggest failing season
because this team is so talented.
On the other note, the money is a valid point. I also wasn’t pleased with the initial hiring because I thought MT had a lot of buying power coming off KD’s career at MT. I don’t know how they landed there because at a school at this level, we will always take a chance on the next coach. But that was a unique opportunity for MTSU to “buy-up”. Unfortunately in this business, coaches get promoted to MTSU, not demoted. So we can agree the pay isn’t justified based on his results.