I wanted to respond to the conversation from the shooting thread that was locked. Josh was making some points, and we were just debating them in typical message board fashion before things went off the rails, so if I may....to continue that here....
I don't think the AD's lack of transparency lead to a 3-9 season last year. What it did do, however, was mask many of the factors that lead to it, and provide cover for the department and the coaching staff with regard to how they are conducting their jobs. That just adds to the frustration of being so bad, and makes me think 2018 could be worse and we'd have no idea until 2019. That can't be helping with season ticket sales.
But here's the hottest take of them all: Doc's slide started the day Ju'Juan Seider left to join WVU's staff. We seem to be having less success converting non-qualifiers into students, which is what this program runs on. That might be because Seider was a great talent scout, or it could just be that he was a handy guy to have around the day the kids from Muck City saw snow for the first time. For whatever reason, it seems like the talent we've brought in since his exit hasn't been as good, and our flameout rate is off-the-charts.
You can't take 15 props a year if only 5 of them make it to their scholarship, otherwise you wind up where we are - getting ready to head into the season with barely enough bonafide D-I athletes to fill a one-deep, much less a roster.
Now someone refute my points, but don't forget to personally insult my mother in the process.
I don't think the AD's lack of transparency lead to a 3-9 season last year. What it did do, however, was mask many of the factors that lead to it, and provide cover for the department and the coaching staff with regard to how they are conducting their jobs. That just adds to the frustration of being so bad, and makes me think 2018 could be worse and we'd have no idea until 2019. That can't be helping with season ticket sales.
But here's the hottest take of them all: Doc's slide started the day Ju'Juan Seider left to join WVU's staff. We seem to be having less success converting non-qualifiers into students, which is what this program runs on. That might be because Seider was a great talent scout, or it could just be that he was a handy guy to have around the day the kids from Muck City saw snow for the first time. For whatever reason, it seems like the talent we've brought in since his exit hasn't been as good, and our flameout rate is off-the-charts.
You can't take 15 props a year if only 5 of them make it to their scholarship, otherwise you wind up where we are - getting ready to head into the season with barely enough bonafide D-I athletes to fill a one-deep, much less a roster.
Now someone refute my points, but don't forget to personally insult my mother in the process.