It would be fun if we were good in baseball too.
Why?
Turn our liabilities into assets.
It's just crazy enough to work.Turn our liabilities into assets.
Go full Globetrotter mode.
Offer free food, free tickets, lots of gimmicks, chicken dance, etc.
Create epic half-time shows with things like monkeys riding bikes, etc.
Recruit the tallest players anywhere and put all of them on the court at one time.
Zany new unis/warmups.
Several players red shirted, which was strange when this team is so bad, why not follow your suggestion, lets save some $ for football and see what he is building
Yeah. If we had unlimited resources, it would be a different discussion. We don't.Several players red shirte, which was strange when this team is so bad, why not follow yoru suggestion, lets save some $ for football and see what he is building
I'd watch. Be fun.Turn our liabilities into assets.
Go full Globetrotter mode.
Offer free food, free tickets, lots of gimmicks, chicken dance, etc.
Create epic half-time shows with things like monkeys riding bikes, etc.
Recruit the tallest players anywhere and put all of them on the court at one time.
Zany new unis/warmups.
All of that sounds great but Paris doesn’t use the height as is. But I’m definitely there for monkeys on bikesTurn our liabilities into assets.
Go full Globetrotter mode.
Offer free food, free tickets, lots of gimmicks, chicken dance, etc.
Create epic half-time shows with things like monkeys riding bikes, etc.
Recruit the tallest players anywhere and put all of them on the court at one time.
Zany new unis/warmups.
Ah, the good old "coach them up and out scheme" plan. I guess that makes firing Beamer a given since he has been here for 5 seasons and hasn't coached the team up or out schemed anyone enough to amount to anything of consequence. I'll add that he hasn't done anything of consequence with much better talent than IU has, at least according to you.
May as well spend on basketball. May need to do like Kentucky and spend more on basketball because we are never going to outspend Texas, A&M, Georgia, or Florida. Probably won't outspend LSU, Tennessee, or Oklahoma either. We saw the formula to win here back in 2011-2013. Right coach. Focus on the times when there is a strong in-state recruiting class. That's when we win. All the worrying about money is just spinning around trying to chase your tail. We can be competitive in the area of money. However, there are going to several programs with more resources. It's like our recruiting. We are usually around a Top 20 program in National Recruiting, but there are 10 SEC teams in front of us.
With Spurrier, we actually should have been in the SEC Championship game three years in a row. We got upset by an inferior SEC opponent in 2 of those years. So, it can be done. Just have to make it happen when it is in front of us. Heck, the National Media thinks we are good right now. We have just proven to have underachieved.
And what is your proposal for success? You’ve already eliminated hiring someone with a plan to “coach them up and out scheme the opponent” (see Cignetti). I suppose you think Saban just magically produced a winner due to his personality or that Kiffin used his social charm to squeeze out wins during his time with Ole Miss? What’s your secret?
Do you really seriously believe this would make a sound argument in the AD's office ? If anything a turnaround in the MBB program could happen more quickly that the FB program.
I have been counting down the days to the start of softball season. No joke.
A true Gamecock fan wants all sports the school sponsors to compete well and represent USC well, whether or not they follow or don't follow a sport. And I don't want any one sport to excel at the expense of any other.
Football matters most to EVERYONE. No football = no sports teams at all.
Then how do schools which do not sponsor football have a viable athletics program?
2 and 3 Star players that are older, more physically developed, and more seasoned than everyone they're playing against. - an investment in proven decent play rather than in potential - this doesn't really work as much with basketball.
Hire a proven head coach with a record of winning. Saban already had won a NC at LSU and 2 SEC championships in 5 seasons. Kiffin gamed the system and is also a very good offensive coach (he still hasn't won a championship of any kind, or even played for one, as head coach). Urban Meyer (a detestable human being) won at Utah before UF hired him. Cignetti won at 3 different schools as head coach before IU hired him. Being a successful head coach is very much like being a top tier CEO. A head coach has to have a vision, a plan and the ability to find and hire a staff that will execute that vision and plan.
Define "viable". Schools without football programs generally have MUCH smaller athletic departments with smaller budgets, smaller facilities, etc..
So, we are saying the same thing. Hire a coach who can coach players up and out maneuver the opponent (in your case, you’ve added the caveat “a proven coach” to the equation).
Sounds viable to me. Not big time, but much more conducive to true intercollegiate competition.
A big difference with Saban, Kiffin, Meyer and Dabo is; they start with players who are already at the maximum level of talent and ability that most other programs hope to coach their players up to. Saban, et al then develop those top talented players even further and end up with elite talent.
I think smaller school college athletics is much more like "real college sports". I went to a Georgia Southern game a few years ago. The stadium holds about 30,000 and the game day feel was very much like a South Carolina game in the 1970s. It was fun.
