What a god awful situation. Waited two years too long to pull the trigger. And there’s no leadership in place to entrust with hiring the replacement.
Unacceptable
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Yup. We've been in wait and see mode for a while now. Well, now we see and we're in a bad situation.
But I don't begrudge the decision to give him a chance to turn it around. There was no easy decision then. The problem is not that we waited it's that we don't have good leadership now.
So now we've got a pretty good coach in a league where you need to be good to avoid catastrophic seasons on a fairly regular basis and very good to ever compete. And we don't have anybody in leadership that's realistically going to upgrade us.
What's most likely going to happen here is we're going to put ourselves out of contention with ****** play early in the SEC schedule, then we're going to do a little better and at some point go on a run that is just barely good enough to talk people into thinking we're better seeing whether Lemonis can build on the momentum next year than pulling the trigger and seeing what Selmon/Keenum do for a replacement. And sadly enough, that won't be an obviously bad decision either.
Are you suggesting he shoudn't have been? It's not like he did anything special last year, and the 2 years before that one and this year are all sucking balls.
Not pointed at you, HoD, but to everyone complaining about this... It is kind of ridiculous to get your panties in a wad over this one. Every school in the nation would let the opposing team use their practice facility during a weather-delayed series. Do y'all realistically expect us to leave another SEC baseball team out in the tornado and say, "F no, you ain't coming inside today boys! Sucks for you, this is war!!!"
If that's really what you thought should happen, you need to grow up. Maybe some of y'all didn't play sports, but as I learned starting about age 5, it is possible to try your hardest to win, really hate losing to the other team, but then shake hands afterward and say "good game". That's why little league teams are forced to do that, to teach respect for the other human beings who happen to play for a rival, but are actually usually decent people who *gasp* you might even like off the field. Hell, my best friend played for Palmer's Big Star and I hated - HATED - losing to them, but they were loaded with talent (mostly because they cheated**) and we lost to them a lot. But he still stayed at my house and played Pitfall on my Atari every Friday night.
I get that everyone is mad we lost. I want State to win every game too, but quit being a *****. Do you think all our players literally hate the opposing team and want them all to die? Or do you think they respect them as ball players and wanted to be accommodating in a situation like this? Jesus people.
It's worse honestly. OM doesn't make the grove all about bringing in the opposing team's fans and feeding them and making them feel welcomed.