Murphy was 100% accurate and I applaud him for using his platform to call it out. Starts around 56min in. While Stock was part of the problem (staff work/life recruting philosophy especially...I still can't get over that from when CM said it), he wasn't the only issue. There are good things happening, but it is 100% catch up.
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Ummm....This has been discussed both on the message boards and throughout the athletic department since we were getting soundly beat by Troy both on the recruiting trail and on the field circa 2006/2007ish. I guess it's nice to see people with a platform FINALLY discussing it ????
Stockstill, to his credit, has been saying we need new facilities since not long after he arrived. Stockstill had a lot of faults, but he was telling anyone who would listen (I was a student in his class) that we cannot recruit against some of our peers because they simply have superior facilities. There's a reason Troy won all those SBC championships in the 00-10 decade and beyond, and it wasn't because Troy, AL was a major destination or they had dominating coaching staffs. Larry Blakeley was a scum bag and mediocre coach at best, but Troy had a sweet heart movie theatre company donor that built them some amazing facilities so they got all the good players and won nearly every head to head recruiting battle with us.
Our facilities at MT are terrible and they've been terrible for decades. It's been discussed here on the message boards ad nauseam for 20 years now. I assure you the coaches made it clear they needed new facilities too. Nobody cared or listened.
We've been dogging McPhee for DECADES. This is not new or news. It's just becoming apparent now because we've changed coaches and people are learning and maybe finally accepting that this is a leadership issue, not a coaching issue.
Maybe that's why McPhee kept Stockstill around for all those years. He was the perfect scape goat and fall guy. "But we can't fire him, the contract!"
Maybe McPhee is the smartest person of us all here. Manipulating the situation perfectly to milk those fat president checks until he's ready to retire.
Pathetic.
hey Steve Smith you are an incompetent clown too. Don't worry we have not forgot about you and the terrible decision making you've afforded this university.
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