Yeah. However, those schools all did a lot more winning than we did on the football field. Frankly, they even did more winning on the basketball court for most of our time in the AAC. Again, our administration created this by not taking football seriously. Timing was awful.
Because UNC has probably already got a wink and a nod from the BIG. The ACC is going to implode at some point when UNC, FSU , Clemson and perhaps UVA get an invite to one of the P-2 conferences.
Better be the SEC or I’ll riot.
It is often said that
Everyone has facilities. This is a weak ass argument. Cincinnati replaced Tubberville with Fickell at the same time we replaced Diaco with Edsall. Tell me again how seriously they took FB when those facilities were built while there was still Big East football.
If I were a west coast kid, I'm playing my Olympic sports at Washington, Oregon, UCLA, USC, Arizona and Arizona St, maybe Colorado too, long long long long before I consider that offer from Cal or Stanford. I know those schools will have academic appeal, but UCLA has almost as much to offer there as well.
We hired horrible coaches and didn’t rectify the situation until very recently. We did not take football seriously after Edsall 1.0 left. We clown showed with Diaco when we could have hired Leach or someone else with a proven track record. Then we rehired Edsall. The Edsall hire isn’t on Benedict. The board made him do it. He figured it was probably better than keeping Diaco.
If The Board really made him rehire Edsall, they should stay out of all FB decisions going forward. I only blame Benedict for not getting rid of him after year 2. Zero upside to keeping him.
That was part of the upgrade. We were the only program to ever upgrade from FCS to into the power structure. This burned a lot of people's asses. Again nice facilities are a baseline expectation. You want to be taken seriously, your coaching hires have a lot to do with that. Houston went like Sumlin, Tom Herman, Holgorsen which they pulled away from a P5. Cincinnati has had a great run of hires and UCF went Oleary to Frost, Heupel, Malzahn.
BC is just as likely to drop baseball as it is to support it fully given the travel. Their coaching staff just recently scattered to the seven winds.
and Cal’s baseball field is dumpy
The idea that that is an overall reduction in travel seems illogical. It takes two to tango. Going to Cal or Stanford is enticing for any top notch non-revenue athlete, but this change is not a plus in any way but for the school’s bottom line. It reeks for the student-athlete - and they are the majority at these schools.
He's talking about the hiring and firing decisions, ie. doing things on the cheap.
Meh, I think everyone thought of Randy as an interim hire to get us back to competency. It didn't work out that way, but I think that was the idea.
Stuck with him way too long. Dude didn't look like he was even trying
You have two of the finest academic institutions in the world located in one of the best locations in the United States. And now you want to tell your student-athletes they will be playing home games in Dallas. I guess it would help recruit kids from the Dallas area but this is beyond silly.
I know - it makes one suspicious that they are making this up as they go along without thought for unintended consequences
It'll never happen
Probably not, but it would be a smart move by the ACC and I'm sure deep down in their heart of hearts they realize it.
