On Stans: Someone here at the office

[ThePinkFloyd]

had an interesting point. He said what happened with Stansbury reminded him of TSUN giving Cutcliffe the boot. The more I think about it I have to agree. Successful coach that has one train wreck of a year, and gets the boot as a result. Just thought Id throw that out there.

On another note......is there any snowballs chance in hell that Sidney is even a consideration for an NBA team to draft. Id love to know which brain dead NBA GM would actually use a pick on that big twelve hamburger eatin 17er.</p>

 

[DowntownDawg]

....Cutcliffe had them bowling every year save the last one. The year before they had the best season in the modern era and lost the #1 overall draft pick.

We've missed the tourney 5 out of 7 years and had a circus atmosphere the whole time.

 

[ckDOG]

Not really comparable at all. The way I see it, the folks that fund the bball program were split on Stans. He realized he was part of the problem, decided it was time to move on, and stepped down gracefully.

Not really comparable at all.

 

[drt7891]

Successful coach that has<span style="font-weight: bold;"> one</span> train wreck of a year, and gets the boot as a result.

This is WAY different from the Cutcliffe situation. Cutcliffe was basically forced to get rid of assistants after he didn't want to after one year, yes... but I believe Stans had Stricklin's graces for one more year. Also, this was NOT just one "bad year"... and this year wasn't much different from last year... which wasn't much different from the year before. Last year and the year before, we lost some big OOC games, this year we won those OOC games, but SEC play the past 3 years has been very much the same.

Think about this... had we lost 2 of these games: TAMU, Arizona (throw in St. Johns), Detroit, West Virginia, FAU, or Utah State... we would have had 18-19 wins and gone 8-8 in the conference... last year we had 17 wins and went 9-7 in the conference... eerily similar, no? The ONLY difference between this year and last year was we won OOC games, last year, we lost some.

 

[UpTheMiddlex3Punt]

And we didn't fire Stans a year after said recruit left.<div>
</div><div>This is more akin to the Tommy Tuberville firing.</div>

 

[Coach34]

Not really comparable at all. The way I see it, the folks that fund the bball program were split on Stans. He realized he was part of the problem, decided it was time to move on, and stepped down gracefully.

Not really comparable at all.

 

[ckDOG]

No. If you fire somebody, you tell them to clean out their office and to get out.

 

[OxpatchReb]

This is more akin to the Tommy Tuberville firing.

 

[ThePinkFloyd]

but we've had 17 seasons of 20 or more wins.....Stans had 10 of them......just sux that the skid at the end did him in.......

That said, I have no doubt that Stricklin will hit a home run on the hire

 

[ThePinkFloyd]

but being asked to retire and being fired are pretty much the same in my book.

But this subject does make for some great late afternoon conversation. Truth be known I was really on the fence about this. I feel like we will be fine now that its done.

 

[dawgs.sixpack]

but we've had 17 seasons of 20 or more wins.....Stans had 10 of them......

while statistically true, teams schedule more games now than they used to. teams play ~35 games these days, whereas 20 years ago, teams played ~30.

 

[Salty Dog]

but some parallels could be drawn to Bower at So. Miss.

 

[patdog]

there's not that many seasons we didn't win 20 that we would have if we'd played 35.

 

[shsdawg]

how close it was when we see the hire.

 

[Coach34]

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[DerHntr]

Large number of wins. Didn't beat the big teams as often as some people thought. Most liked him personally. Family guy. Lost his edge at the end and underachieved.

A big difference is I think Stans could find a job if he wanted and Bower couldn't.

 

[Indndawg]

Stans' production has gone down
Constant drama
Team disaffection

Don't think Cut had those problems

 

[ThePinkFloyd]

But I would agree that bower is a much better comparison

 

[HammerOfTheDogs]

Bower always had his teams competitive and they always won and usually went to a Bowl game, but could never take it to the next level. He was forced out and USM improved under Larry Fedora. I think State will improve with the right hire. There is NO comparison to Cutcliffe or Sherrill with Stansbury.

 

[fishwater99]

Maybe a mid-major...