Not much else you can say. This is the most depressing hire of any of the big 3 MSU programs in my lifetime.
suck it.
suck it.
Scotty whiffed on this one....big time.
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Not much else you can say. This is the most depressing hire of any of the big 3 MSU programs in my lifetime.
suck it.
suck it.
Can we at least give him 4 or five, maybe 6years before we pass judgement on this man? Geez. We have GOT to give him time....ALL the time that he deems necessary. This is MSU, it takes time, and usually lots of it.
we obviously we had to "settle" for Ray. He was not part of the tournament therefore no reason for the long delay. If it was Payne then this obviously wouldnt be the case but for such a long search with numerous offers being turned down shows that we did not get a top quality candidate
I think we should at least have a "wait and see" approach. People who've actually heard of the guy(CBS, Purdue & Clemson folks) are speaking favorably about him.
Not saying it is an amazing hire. Its a long time before any of us should rightfully have an opinion of his abilities. But I guess i am too logical for 90% of the posters on six pack, Give him time. The people who know basketball talk like this is a good hire. Wait and see, I promise they know more then us. Jackass
to hire a f'n assistant that nobody's ever heard of. Perhaps he will enumerate those positives for us very soon. I will be listening very closely ... and I'll have my crxxms press conference ears on. Again, this **** is on the AD. This ain't Ray's fault at all. Good for him getting paid.
Can you not understand that the questions are about the administration's judgment? Of course you support the coach. Of course you want him to succeed. Of course you give him time. But when nobody knows who the f@ck he is or what his qualifications are, then you have to ask what the hell the admin is doing.
It's really that simple.
It's really that simple.
I cannot believe this is the best we at State could do. The guy may turn out to be a solid hire, but it sure as heck isn't going to initially unite the fanbase or instill confidence in the AD. Hope we aren't overpaying Ricky F'n Ray. His resume and name recognition couldn't be worth much more than 400k. I'd have been more impressed with the guy from MVSU. This hire is a serious WTF moment for me. Guess time will tell. Three seasons should be more than enough to pronounce judgment.
did you know who dan mullen was before he was hired?
17 stick GD ****. Little Ol MSU isn't MSUs problem. MSU people are MSUs problem. Scott Stricklin has the balls to fire a guy who had support from a big and important group of the fan base. He fired him b/c of not performing. He then has the balls to go out and hire a guy 'who know one knows' (like thats something you can put on your resume). Do you really think he didn't do his homework and think that this guy was the best available candidate out there?
Hell we did a national search and picked a guy. He may have been our first choice and he may have been our 10th. I don't know. And neither do you. The point is that I'm sure stricklin got the best guy available that was willing to come to MSU. What more can you ask for?
17 stick GD ****. Little Ol MSU isn't MSUs problem. MSU people are MSUs problem. Scott Stricklin has the balls to fire a guy who had support from a big and important group of the fan base. He fired him b/c of not performing. He then has the balls to go out and hire a guy 'who know one knows' (like thats something you can put on your resume). Do you really think he didn't do his homework and think that this guy was the best available candidate out there?
Hell we did a national search and picked a guy. He may have been our first choice and he may have been our 10th. I don't know. And neither do you. The point is that I'm sure stricklin got the best guy available that was willing to come to MSU. What more can you ask for?
At what point in your mind did you decide thatYOU knowing the candidate become a prerequisite of whether thier judgement was valid?
If Scott Stricklin was doing his job, he would not have spent all weekend in Starkville last week watching baseball games. He wasted 3 days of interviewing candidates by staying in Starkville last weekend. How is that doing his job?
Maybe if he had been working on finding our coach instead of in Starkville we wouldnt have been hiring someone nobody has ever heard of.
Maybe if he had been working on finding our coach instead of in Starkville we wouldnt have been hiring someone nobody has ever heard of.
Qualifying candidates for a division one basketball head coaching job that just paid over one million a year isnt like going door to door selling an electrolux.
He's the director of ALL athletics at Mississippi State. Even the ones that have a coach. Maybe there wasnt any available candidate that he could interview last weekend.
Grow a 17ing brain.
He's the director of ALL athletics at Mississippi State. Even the ones that have a coach. Maybe there wasnt any available candidate that he could interview last weekend.
Grow a 17ing brain.
It's not like Stricklin has any impact on the daily operations of any sport. He easily could have been out interviewing candidates. There were only 12 teams in America still playing basketball at that point, too, so it's not like there weren't plenty of options out there. Especially considering that we ended up with a guy who has been available for weeks.<div>
</div><div>I hope Rick Ray turns out to be John Wooden, but defending the way Stricklin handled this search is just ridiculous. </div>
</div><div>I hope Rick Ray turns out to be John Wooden, but defending the way Stricklin handled this search is just ridiculous. </div>
But Byrne found time to make it to church in Starkville on Sundays.
You can sell that crap elsewhere. But Byrne was interviewing people for a hc jobin the premier football conference in the country. Not basketball.
You can sell that crap elsewhere. But Byrne was interviewing people for a hc jobin the premier football conference in the country. Not basketball.
I saw Scott Stricklin during the hiring process. I didn't live in Starkville at the time either.
And I'm telling you Greg Byrne was in public during that hiring process.
Are you trying to say he went into hiding and didn't show his face until Mullen was hired? Do you realize how long of a process that was? He was most assuredly seen in public during that hiring process.
Are you trying to say he went into hiding and didn't show his face until Mullen was hired? Do you realize how long of a process that was? He was most assuredly seen in public during that hiring process.
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