Agreed on new AD, new president, and new coaches.
Sometimes you just need new blood for the sake of new blood. New hires are motivating, they give hope. They get more people to donate and get involved. Nobody likes the boring, status quo stuff. Why do you think there are so many divorces in this country?
It's going to be damn near impossible for Stockstill to breath new life into this program. Imagine this, Stockstill wins CUSA next year....would there really be that much excitement? There wouldn't. People would view it as a fluke and would prepare for a 6-6 or 7-5 outcome the following season. Nobody would be believing that we "arrived"
Now what if we fired Stockstill, hired someone like Walt Bell, and Walt came in and won the CUSA his first year......
Which scenario do you think would provide more excitement? Donations, involvement, etc. would be double and maybe triple under the latter scenario because people would have hope and think that maybe Walt could continue rolling.
The reality in both scenarios is both of them very likely fall back to reality after winning CUSA, but fan perception would be ENTIRELY different.
New coaches, new AD, new presidents....Very meaningful. Remember, perception is reality. And right now the perception of our football and basketball programs is that they're on life support. And that reality is reflected in the lack of support and very few people showing up to games....