The university’s leadership has made a significant series of head scratching decisions over the past few years. Even the Board got in on the action extending McPhee and raising his salary. The pure persistence of the poor decisions that have been made is mind boggling. I’m not going to go all Wiley here but I’m not spending another penny at MT until changes are made - most especially in Cope and in the football program. This university has ruined every positive momentum since 2013 when we moved to C-USA and started our run as one of the top mid basketball programs in country. They have ****ed this up so severely it’s going to be a decade before we recover from this cluster. And that’s assuming we ever recover at all.
But let’s talk MBB for a moment. Bonehead decision #1. Why did our brain trust pay the same amount to an inexperienced coach as we were paying a coach who had been here 17 years with multiple championships and NCAA Tourney wins?? Seriously, WTF? Especially when you quadruple his salary from his previous school. Wouldn’t have doubling CNM’s salary been sufficient? When more experienced coaches like Forbes scoffed at coming here (who might have been justified in a such a salary) MT should have lowered the payout for less experienced coaches like McDevitt and Odom. Just lame decisions made by our administration.
Lastly, on to this situation. I have made no bones about my position on this hire. To me it was a bad hire then and it is a bad one now. In fact, there isn’t one thing CNM has done since coming here that leads me to believe I should reconsider. Not one. There have been enablers. Plenty on this board in fact that we must give it a chance and then making excuses for the evidence consistently being presented before our very eyes. I said from day one this style and philosophy can’t work here. That’s nothing against CNM. But it has been worse than even I thought. I figured he could at least limp along to some .500 type seasons. What happened with ETSU demonstrates that this situation is so much worse than even I could have imagined. ETSU was coming off a 30 win season. Lost their head coach to a P5. Graduated a bunch of key players and had even more who were expected to lead the team the next year transfer including a couple of which who followed Forbes to Wake Forest. Sound familiar? In fact, ETSU lost 69 of the teams 76 points from year prior. Think about that. ETSU lost 91% of its scoring production since last year. So, we are to believe - from some around here - that CNM needs three or four years because of the situation he inherited but ETSU can face a similar and in a lot of ways worse situation but still take us to the woodshed with their coaches second game of his career against our now third year coach. You guys really need to think about how messed up this is. How similar those situations were to CNM and how one game can tell you so much about a situation. Jason Shay exposed CNMs team easily with a suffocating defensive mindset. We have seen a couple comments about the team quitting. Maybe they did because they couldn’t handle somebody playing a pressure defense against them. And if so thats on the head coach for being too soft.
Our athletic department is in complete disarray and this started a long time ago. Most of our fan base has already checked out. McPhee and Co have literally driven our programs into the sewer. Our voices are irrelevant to them. All we can do now is vote with our wallet and time. And that may mean the end of MT athletics for good. If so, fair enough but I’m not going to keep supporting people who make such bad decisions. I sit here and wonder if we were trying to be this bad could we even succeed this well. Even a broken clock is right twice a day. When was the last time we were right in any significant decision?? It blows my mind how many terrible decisions have been made and how perpetually and consistently they’ve been bad for the better part of seven or eight years now. And this university needs a house cleaning like nothing we’ve ever seen. The President needs to be fired. The AD needs to be fired. The head football coach needs to be fired. And the basketball coach needs to be fired. Until those changes are made I’m out.
But let’s talk MBB for a moment. Bonehead decision #1. Why did our brain trust pay the same amount to an inexperienced coach as we were paying a coach who had been here 17 years with multiple championships and NCAA Tourney wins?? Seriously, WTF? Especially when you quadruple his salary from his previous school. Wouldn’t have doubling CNM’s salary been sufficient? When more experienced coaches like Forbes scoffed at coming here (who might have been justified in a such a salary) MT should have lowered the payout for less experienced coaches like McDevitt and Odom. Just lame decisions made by our administration.
Lastly, on to this situation. I have made no bones about my position on this hire. To me it was a bad hire then and it is a bad one now. In fact, there isn’t one thing CNM has done since coming here that leads me to believe I should reconsider. Not one. There have been enablers. Plenty on this board in fact that we must give it a chance and then making excuses for the evidence consistently being presented before our very eyes. I said from day one this style and philosophy can’t work here. That’s nothing against CNM. But it has been worse than even I thought. I figured he could at least limp along to some .500 type seasons. What happened with ETSU demonstrates that this situation is so much worse than even I could have imagined. ETSU was coming off a 30 win season. Lost their head coach to a P5. Graduated a bunch of key players and had even more who were expected to lead the team the next year transfer including a couple of which who followed Forbes to Wake Forest. Sound familiar? In fact, ETSU lost 69 of the teams 76 points from year prior. Think about that. ETSU lost 91% of its scoring production since last year. So, we are to believe - from some around here - that CNM needs three or four years because of the situation he inherited but ETSU can face a similar and in a lot of ways worse situation but still take us to the woodshed with their coaches second game of his career against our now third year coach. You guys really need to think about how messed up this is. How similar those situations were to CNM and how one game can tell you so much about a situation. Jason Shay exposed CNMs team easily with a suffocating defensive mindset. We have seen a couple comments about the team quitting. Maybe they did because they couldn’t handle somebody playing a pressure defense against them. And if so thats on the head coach for being too soft.
Our athletic department is in complete disarray and this started a long time ago. Most of our fan base has already checked out. McPhee and Co have literally driven our programs into the sewer. Our voices are irrelevant to them. All we can do now is vote with our wallet and time. And that may mean the end of MT athletics for good. If so, fair enough but I’m not going to keep supporting people who make such bad decisions. I sit here and wonder if we were trying to be this bad could we even succeed this well. Even a broken clock is right twice a day. When was the last time we were right in any significant decision?? It blows my mind how many terrible decisions have been made and how perpetually and consistently they’ve been bad for the better part of seven or eight years now. And this university needs a house cleaning like nothing we’ve ever seen. The President needs to be fired. The AD needs to be fired. The head football coach needs to be fired. And the basketball coach needs to be fired. Until those changes are made I’m out.
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