Some of you guys are depressing. You try to suck the life out of the few die hards we have. Acceptance is important and understanding what we’re up against is as well.
Not my intent to discourage others. But I'm not going to hold back on how I really feel.
I have tried to be positive with Stockstill and the hand we've been dealt. I've tried multiple times over the years actually. I can't anymore. I just think there's too many factors going against MT, with the biggest being near-zero community support and just terrible people in administrative positions. Absolutely terrible. Unspeakably bad.
I agree with others that Stockstill is the least of our worries. He's done a respectable job considering the circumstances if you just look at the numbers (conference wins, graduation, players staying out of trouble). But you'll never build a G5 program with a coach that has no personality and inspires nobody outside of maybe his locker room and barely gets his teams bowl eligible each year. In fact, it's a good recipe to bleed a fan base dry through mediocrity. And that's exactly what has happened.
McPhee and the board is an absolute cancer to our athletics programs. They are so out of touch and sadly don't even realize. One of those things where you don't know what you don't know. They just view us as disgruntled internet guys who like to complain. But the reality is McPhee has done a terrible job managing our major athletics programs. He was such a fool to go on record and say "I now realize the importance of facilities" AFTER we get screwed out of re-alignment. Newsflash: I know for a fact our coaches and those close to the football program have been asking for new facilities since at least 2006. We were losing recruiting battles to Troy during that time because they had the nicest facilities in the conference. We went head-to-head with key recruits during those years and lost basically every time. Facilities were frequently cited, and I can personally attest to this because I talked to the recruits myself. Troy had a sweetheart deal with some movie company at the time who built them some really nice facilities for a Sun Belt program.
I'm rambling now, but the point I'm trying to make is, we've needed new facilities to compete with our peers for almost 2 decades now, and McPhee has known this the entire time. He didn't care. McPhee has
ALWAYS wanted to do things on the cheap when it comes to athletics. And there's plenty of evidence to support this. Stockstill was given a golden parachute contract and basically guaranteed easy extensions for the rest of his life instead of just a standard pay increase and standard buy-out options. McDevitt was cheaper than Odom despite Odom being the better coach and candidate. Look at what Odom went on to do at Utah State and now has been hired by VCU, one of the top A10 programs. Odom would have been a homerun for us but McPhee, once again, took the cheap route.
McPhee had so much nerve to come out and publicly state that he now understands how important facilities are in the athletics world after we got screwed in conference realignment. Instead of having an opportunity to play football with some of the currently premier G5 football programs, we are instead relegated to playing with FCS move-up's and CUSA leftovers and a very uncertain future. Beyond that, with college football going pay to play and the way the landscape has changed, I actually think it's too late for MT anyway. We had our chance and missed the window because McPhee wanted to pinch pennies. Thanks Sidney.....
I'll never understand how these people remain in power. Obviously there's plenty of corruption and pandering at play here, because McPhee and his cronies certainly don't deserve to be leaders of MT based on their body of work. They have a body of failures.
And there's nothing any of us can individually do about it. Nobody cares enough about MT. All you can do is vote with your dollar.
