You could paint "Marshall" on a steaming pile of dog s*** and Perkins would proclaim it the greatest thing ever.
Reality is our football team is, as best, mediocre. Truth is it is bad. The coach is a career assistant and is gone next year. We were warned, we, or that is to say the cabal, didn't listen and in fact shot the messenger. I really have no faith in the cabal that hired this joker to do better the next time. All serious MU fans are discussing the post CH era. No one believes he will do anything different next year.
Reality is our AD is a non-leader, living off the momentum built up. His continuous mistakes and acceptance of mediocrity will eventually bring that to a halt. We need a leader who is willing to make the hard decisions that have to be made in this era of NIL (pay), transfer portals (unlimited free agency) and mega-conferences (ESPN's evil system of one winner and 130 losers). We don't have a leader.
Reality is our basketball team is bad. A bunch of non-D1 level players coached by a lifetime HS coach. The record looks better than it is because the SBC is one of the bottom conferences. Half of the teams do not try and do not care. We, based on our history and commitment, should be in the top 4 or 5 in this bad league, every year. We will bounce about, winning one, losing one, whatever. A third of the seats in the arena are tarped off, unsellable. This is a token effort.
Reality is, and this is hard to hear, is that yes, the WBB story is nice. Title IX makes the university have women's sports and if you are going to do it, you might as well be good at it. But it doesn't pay the freight. Outside of a handful of programs, women's basketball is a money losing deal. Why? Because Title IX. There are enough men good at basketball to staff hundreds and hundreds of teams. D1, D2, NAIA, JuCos, etc. Thousands of men. There are enough women to staff maybe 30 programs, but we have to have a women's team to match every men's team. If you have ESPN+, watch some. Not just Marshall, pick a sample of random games and watch. After the very top level, you see fundamental mistakes and lack of skill that was corrected in middle school for the boys. This is why you see, even in the major conferences, 50 and 60 point blow outs, in-conference. Because if the best male basketball player is a "100", then the 100th best is a "95" and the 1000th best is an "85". If the best female basketball player is a "100", then the 50th best is an "80" and the 200th best is a "50". The talent pool is so shallow you can see through it.
That is the reality. We need an AD who is a leader. A leader gets CH out of here, ASAP. A leader has HIS choice for the next guy, or at least a short list, in mind right now, and doesn't answer to a cabal of self-important, self-appointed men. A leader has DD announce his "retirement" RIGHT NOW, so we can sell out (well, sell out not counting the tarped over seats) for DD's last rodeo, and, he likewise has an idea of who he wants next.
