I have to speak directly to those who continually talk about how negative this forum is.
If you go back to the late 90s when I started visiting and posting on forums, the athletic program was making strides in such a way that there was an abundance of optimism. A lot of that optimism came from the vision of leadership and there was a trust and confidence in that leadership that a better decision would be made and outcomes would improve the program regardless of who coached.
For football, Boots Donnelly willingly stepped down because he knew there would need to be another person to lead football in the era of 1-A. So much respect for that man. Even when things went south with Andy, we knew that the administration would make a needed change for the good of the program and the school.
In basketball, Randy Wiel (like coach Stock) was a likable person but couldn't get the job done. He did a tremendous job getting people from the Roy Williams coaching tree to come to Murfreesboro and could recruit the heck out of foreign national players but did little on the court. Again, we knew a needed change would occur and that trust and confidence was still there.
The forums are a representative of the fanbase and there was little to no negativity because we knew those in leadership would do the needful. Our biggest complaint at the time was that we were building something new in the boro but a large swatch of students and alumni would continue to support the orange.
Enter in our current leadership. That trust and confidence has been broken, severely.
They let Kermit Davis squander for many many years.
They let the football program ROT!!!!! in facilities, expectations, and perception.
It is looking like they are allowing basketball to do the same. Until they do something with the bleachers, Murphy Center is starting to be a low class facility and nothing needs to be said more about CNM.
You can search the delphi forums or take this for what it is worth. It wasn't always like this. The board had meetups. The board had people contributing money for bowl tickets donated to local charities. We had days where we would paint the town blue with calendars. We had fly your flag fridays. The boards organized the Palladium trophy. OPTIMISM until this clown show of and administration showed up.
As MT01 has stated, what has been done at MT is unprecedented.
So what you are seeing is a direct response to what we have had to observe over the last 20 years. It hasn't been great.
Rant off.
Quoted for emphasis.
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