Birdfriend72
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It seems players leaving for greener pastures are no different than the coach exiting before his contract is fulfilled. The lone difference is that a player's contract is year to year. Coaches typically have years remaining on their contract. If players are exiting your program for the portal...I am guessing that's because they have performed at a level that has exceeded your program. If you can have some success...players might be more willing to stay where they are. As long as you can continue recruiting 1-2 year players, the program should be fine. It's what the coach signed up for when they signed their contract. Everyone in the Valley is on the same playing field. Other coaches are succeeding with the same rules. We are now known as JUCO basketball.I concur with you. YIKES, SOAP BOX AHEAD! If no energy to read, believe me I understand. I just don't know how we find a sweet spot when the cookie batter is sand and rabbit pellets. It's a silent auction, highest bidder wins.
It's the way of this athletics world now, but we might as well head on over to Big Al's because instead of getting "it" the old fashioned way, we're gonna have to pay for "it." And the sex isn't meaningful. It's a mere manipulative transaction.
I don't know how in the world a guy like Pedon, or any other coach outside of the top 40, navigates this and creates a cultured, winning program. It's not a bitchfest, it's trying to figure it out. **And outside of a multiple multi million dollar collective...YEAR IN/YEAR OUT...I don't see it happening.** And this only serves men's basketball!!! What about our other athletic programs on both sides? What about our University as as whole?? More on that in a sec...
You ever had anyone ask you for something and they wouldn't leave you alone and it almost resorted to constant drumbeat begging over an extended period of time? Yeah, me neither but imagine the scenario. Please please puhhhllleeeeeeeeaaaaaaase help us. Daddy will you buy me a car? Daddy please. Oh please Daddy. Yes I'll buy you a car. But please Daddy, buy me a car. Please. Please. Months later...please Daddy. Finally Daddy is so irritated that he flips out at the constant badgering and the car is no more. F*%! THE CAR!
The 'fundraising' will be nonstop begging. And this particular fundraising is for the prostitutes...errr, student athletes...errr, athletes. (Oh whoa dangerous question: who are the pimps??? Yikes.) Not any other university endeavors - such as creating an engineering program or an endowment program that serves lesser privileged student candidates to our enrollment. That's how anyone in our shoes will have to compete.
Sincere question, practically speaking...do any of you see any other way in being competitive? (outside of pimpdaddy NCAA evenly distributing "dividends" to all schools) Any thoughts?
And if we do strike it lucky and are competitive over the course of ONE year, how do you maintain it? It's seems to me that players will be dipping and diving, nevertheless. Coaches are on the arm, too.. Culture is OUT the window.
Silent auction, highest bidder, no reserves.
*PS. I don't blame the athletes directly. They're being taught what to do by this sideways marketplace and how do you turn down mo' money mo' money mo' money?
And AGGIE, yes your Dad had good advice. I'd like to hang with that guy. But all of a sudden WarGames is in my head.
- Joshua: Greetings, Professor Falken.
- Stephen Falken: Hello, Joshua.
- Joshua: A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?
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