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I think reality has set in and MBMs realize a proven winner who is in the midst of a winning season is not in the cards.  You're either getting an unproven coach who's currently winning or a proven coach who's not.  A guy who checks both boxes is in line for a P6 job.  So Schertz two weeks ago -- meh.  Schertz now -- perfect fit.

i think ALL as in Ford, May the BoT, the boosters, all knew the effects that NiL was going to have.   unfortunately, they also believed that the billiken fandom would forgive, forget and accept all their excuses and if a total fail (as in now) they could draw straws for the fall guy and we blindly would play the part of Kevin Bacon in Animal House and repeat over and over "all is well".    we are the fall.  the victims.  the unwitting stooges.   and judging by all the other times that the billiken fandom has faced this, (ekker time, the end of grawer, romar/soderberg, crewsplatt and ford tough) they will expect us to be the good little lemmings and fall in line and accept.  

People who don't necessarily care about winning games but care more about having something named after them (big or small - not calling out one or two specific people). Moreso people who aren't paying for the coach but are paying for general funds the athletic department needs. You need people like that supporting your school. Those kind of people love May. But that's why I want May in some sort of role where it seems like he has power but he actually doesn't. We need a new athletic director. There are just too many negatives going on even outside the basketball trainwreck. But I think you risk upsetting a lot of important people if you dump May totally to the curb even if that's what should happen. 
Your school is never in great shape when you need a new president, a new athletic director, and a new coach of your single revenue sport. 

Other than one of us striking the lottery and taking over the Board of Trustees, I'm not sure how you get rid of the mentality.  Nothing I've read on any of these threads convinces me that they will ever do business differently.

It's almost as if Coach Ford believed that he could teach a group of poor defensive players to become good defensive players.  You can't.  As far as I can tell, no one can.  And if you're not halfway decent on defense it doesn't matter how many points you score.
I am shocked that this team has only gotten worse defensively as the season progressed.  That's a humongous coaching fail.

A Ford-coached team with Davell Roby as his best player, Mike Crawford as his second-best player and Aaron Hines at point had a better record than this one does.  That team was average on defense.
It doesn't take a huge NIL budget to bring in a couple of standout defenders to at least bring the defense up to average. I have no doubt that a man looking to save his job can accomplish this.  It's just bizarre that a coach who has put some pretty good defensive teams on the floor over the last 20 years, put us in this position.
I've beaten the drum that the Board of Trustees has to be the change we're looking for.  I just don't think they have it in them.  I'd love to be proven wrong.

He's a name, he's having success at the mid major level and he's only 41 years old.  There's a lot to like whether you are Board of Trustee member or an MBM.  He's done a good job of reshaping his reputation as a coach.

He's a name, he's having success at the mid major level and he's only 41 years old.  There's a lot to like whether you are Board of Trustee member or an MBM.  He's done a good job of reshaping his reputation as a coach.

The old Jimerson was without Yuri and Parker for 15 games and was averaging nearly 17 ppg.  He disappeared at VCU and has never been seen again.

The old Jimerson was without Yuri and Parker for 15 games and was averaging nearly 17 ppg.  He disappeared at VCU and has never been seen again.

The old Jimerson was without Yuri and Parker for 15 games and was averaging nearly 17 ppg.  He disappeared at VCU and has never been seen again.

This isn't football.  All you need is 2 players to totally overhaul a basketball defense.  You put a strong post defender and an experienced ball hawk at point guard on this team and most of our defensive problems go away.  The issue is why wasn't this done in the offseason?  You don't need a ton of NIL money to get those players.  You need a ton of NIL money to get extra-talented players to cover up the coach's lack of an offensive and defensive philosophy.
The player Travis Ford was a basketball thinker on the court.  Why does the coach Travis Ford construct a roster that he has to do all the thinking for?

This isn't football.  All you need is 2 players to totally overhaul a basketball defense.  You put a strong post defender and an experienced ball hawk at point guard on this team and most of our defensive problems go away.  The issue is why wasn't this done in the offseason?  You don't need a ton of NIL money to get those players.  You need a ton of NIL money to get extra-talented players to cover up the coach's lack of an offensive and defensive philosophy.
The player Travis Ford was a basketball thinker on the court.  Why does the coach Travis Ford construct a roster that he has to do all the thinking for?

This isn't football.  All you need is 2 players to totally overhaul a basketball defense.  You put a strong post defender and an experienced ball hawk at point guard on this team and most of our defensive problems go away.  The issue is why wasn't this done in the offseason?  You don't need a ton of NIL money to get those players.  You need a ton of NIL money to get extra-talented players to cover up the coach's lack of an offensive and defensive philosophy.
The player Travis Ford was a basketball thinker on the court.  Why does the coach Travis Ford construct a roster that he has to do all the thinking for?

Passing a rule to pay the athletes a $500 month stipend seems like common sense today.  It was only fair since they were not allowed to have summer jobs and college sports has grown into a multi-billion dollar enterprise.  But the institutions involved, both the NCAA and its member schools, were too greedy.  And too short-sighted.  The folks who could have addressed the issue 20 years ago are retired or gone today.

Passing a rule to pay the athletes a $500 month stipend seems like common sense today.  It was only fair since they were not allowed to have summer jobs and college sports has grown into a multi-billion dollar enterprise.  But the institutions involved, both the NCAA and its member schools, were too greedy.  And too short-sighted.  The folks who could have addressed the issue 20 years ago are retired or gone today.

Coaches were not making that kind of coin 20 years ago.  If you would have offered a $500 stipend to athletes back then, 99% of them would have gladly taken it.   Instead they were told they were getting a free education and shut up.

Passing a rule to pay the athletes a $500 month stipend seems like common sense today.  It was only fair since they were not allowed to have summer jobs and college sports has grown into a multi-billion dollar enterprise.  But the institutions involved, both the NCAA and its member schools, were too greedy.  And too short-sighted.  The folks who could have addressed the issue 20 years ago are retired or gone today.

Lusk was under .500 at Missouri State. Lowery was handed the keys to one of the best mid-major teams in the country at Southern Illinois, did well in his first few years, and drove that program straight off a cliff. They still haven’t recovered, and he’s been gone for 10+ years. When he did well early in his tenure at SIU, he became a hot commodity for bigger jobs, so SIU gave him a big contract. The problem was that shortly after that, the program started to decline, but I think they had to ride it out for a few years because his buyout was high. The concern that some of have that Ford’s buyout is too high for us to pay, requiring us to just wear this for a year or two? SIU experienced that with Lowery.

Passing a rule to pay the athletes a $500 month stipend seems like common sense today.  It was only fair since they were not allowed to have summer jobs and college sports has grown into a multi-billion dollar enterprise.  But the institutions involved, both the NCAA and its member schools, were too greedy.  And too short-sighted.  The folks who could have addressed the issue 20 years ago are retired or gone today.

Passing a rule to pay the athletes a $500 month stipend seems like common sense today.  It was only fair since they were not allowed to have summer jobs and college sports has grown into a multi-billion dollar enterprise.  But the institutions involved, both the NCAA and its member schools, were too greedy.  And too short-sighted.  The folks who could have addressed the issue 20 years ago are retired or gone today.

Passing a rule to pay the athletes a $500 month stipend seems like common sense today.  It was only fair since they were not allowed to have summer jobs and college sports has grown into a multi-billion dollar enterprise.  But the institutions involved, both the NCAA and its member schools, were too greedy.  And too short-sighted.  The folks who could have addressed the issue 20 years ago are retired or gone today.

Passing a rule to pay the athletes a $500 month stipend seems like common sense today.  It was only fair since they were not allowed to have summer jobs and college sports has grown into a multi-billion dollar enterprise.  But the institutions involved, both the NCAA and its member schools, were too greedy.  And too short-sighted.  The folks who could have addressed the issue 20 years ago are retired or gone today.

If Coach Ford is the coach for the next several years, how many MBMs plan to cancel their tickets next year?