If Rick Stansbury came to you for advice....

[Coach34]

and told you Scott Stricklin gave him two choices and he had to pick one- which would you tell him to do?

Option 1- retire at the end of this season, take on an associate AD job and help raise funds, and spend more a couple of years with Meo and the family?

Option 2- remain coach in 2012- NCAA bid and you get to coach the remainder of your contract...anything less than NCAA bid- you're fired, never to be associated with Mississippi State again?

 

[GloryDawg]

bd

 

[studentdawg87]

I can't stand his coaching, but I think Rick is a good guy. I feel as if he has put in enough time at State to warrant a move to an assistant AD type role. I don't think he could transition in to such a role, however. Like Polk, Rick seems to think of this as "his" basketball program. I'm not sure if he could accept being at MSU but not being the coach of the basketball team.

 

[anon1751035439]

You must have missed it. Oh, wait....nevermind

 

[EmoryBellard]

nm

 

[vhdawg]

Rick, pick whichever option you really want to, but if you choose Option 2, here's some things you need to change about yourself:

1. Become a disciplinarian. NOW. Let the assistants be their buddies, but you need to be the hardass from this day forward.

2. You get too comfortable with a lead too early. I'm from the Steve Spurrier school of offense, which means I think a 35-point lead is an okay time to take off the gas. And NEVER take off the gas until there's less than four minutes left. It's their job to stop us, not ours.

3. Pick an offense, any offense. Act like you know what you're doing.

4. Free throw practice every day, for everybody.

5. Call Matt Balis. Actually, call him right now, while I'm sitting here. No, go ahead, I'll wait.......(humming softly to myself....."hail..to the victors valiant".....DAMN IT MICHIGAN THAT **** IS CATCHY!!).....okay, see? He's happy to help you. I bet he'll make Kodi cry too, and I know you'll like that.

6. I don't know what the problem is, or what causes it, or how to stop it, but your teams have a tendency to come out strong, beat the **** out of someone for several minutes....North Carolina for instance....and then all of a sudden we can't do anything. Maybe it's that you like to substitute everybody at about the eight-minute mark, I don't know....regardless, figure out why that is, and figure out a way to make it stop. Then refer back to #2, and re-commence whipping that ***.

Now, that all said....if you want to take Option 1, hang out all day with Meo, Nahum, Habbakuk, and Obadiah, be my guest. It's your life. But if you want to redeem yourself and make winning the West means something again, think about the six things I mentioned. They're not that difficult, they're pretty simple, and if I can pick up on them, with me knowing **** about basketball, you should be able to make the adjustment by about 11:00 AM tomorrow morning.

Now get cracking.

Oh yeah, let me add one more thing...

7. It's FreshMEN, not FreshMENS......and you sound like a damn moron when you say it like that. If I were Old Biff from Back To The Future 2, I'd be rapping you over the head with my knuckle-headed cane for that crap. STOP IT.

Alright, gotta run now....hi to Meo.