No issue with you using facts and objectively proving your opinion as valid. It took KD 10 years to do the above and you're screaming at a HC that nearly did it year 5 and has a roster to do it this year.
Bookmarked. I'll prove this point when the season gets going.
Talk about "come off the bench this year and do anything". Bookmarked.
You have 2 new starters in Lands and Mostafa. If you want to reinsert Weston as a third because he didn't play last year, further disproving your narrative this is the same team as last year.
I completely understand your viewpoint on the matter, genuinely. I don't necessarily disagree with the sentiment that he shouldn't be the coach here past year 3. But the constant goal post moving to compare him to Kermit Davis is ridiculous. It is CLEAR you have revisionist history on KD. It took him 10 years to get a "transfer POY superstar". AND it wasn't until LaRon Dendy that KD started to recruit JuCo/P4 heavily and started his 7 year tear before he took the Ole Miss job.
You are entitled to your opinion but you lose all credibility when you stand on a hypocritical basis. 10 years to win a conference championship. 10 years to get a SBC POY. 11 years to win 70% of games.
I want to win championships, I want to beat WKU, I want to be in the NCAAT. We haven't done those 3 things to my liking either. But it is so hard to empathize with your viewpoints when you literally just make stuff up and you're just mad enough to confirm your bias.
I was calling for Kermit to be fired well before he went on his run. If you were around then you would know that. I'm sure the posts still exist if you're that curious. I yelled about it for YEARS, just as I have for McDevitt.
Kermit should have been fired well before he became a great coach for us. 10 years is too long. Same goes for McDevitt. He should have been fired after year 3 and most certainly shouldn't be extended next year unless there is an absolute herculean, record setting type of season.
Who the hell keeps failing coaches around for a decade? ESPECIALLY in the current day landscape....
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 it's worse 3 year stretch in the history of the program after he was hired. Kermit's teams were always at least decent, competitive with WKU, and sometimes close to winning the conference, which made it all the more maddening. Kermit had some very unfortunate injuries/player retirements that kept him from those championships (That's the only reason he got more time, his teams were actually close despite those circumstances). Those things eventually evened out and Kermit took care of business. That's simply not the case of what's going on here with Nick...He's had 1 respectable season out of 6 with several just putrid teams. Unacceptable. Kermits "bad" teams would have wiped the floor with any of McDevitt's teams.
Kermit proved what was possible here at MT, regardless of how long it took him. We pay well here now compared to other G5's. Very well, actually. And MT did not always use to be one of the highest paying G5's out there. Kermit was paid very poorly, by comparison, when initially hired on but after his success he turned MT into a well paying job (McDevitt should thank him for setting him up for life.....). With McDevitt, we are not getting even close to what we are paying for. Every year this team and staff is getting schooled by coaching staffs with 1/3rd the pay and a quarter of our budget. It'll happen again this year too just you watch. UNACCEPTABLE for a coach that's been here over half a decade. End of story.
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)
