I should have included the word intelligently - when it comes to any discussion. If you have anything intelligent to say as to why specifically you think there has been a downturn in the baseball program these last couple of years - by all means - out with it. So far you’ve brought nothing factual to that conversation.
Yeah, he did a great job with football dealing with Satt, and hopefully we'll look back in a year and see that he handled this horrible situation with Kenny in the best possible way while getting us back on track.
It's always been a question what the priorities are. But that's exactly what it is - a question. They could decide to keep Kenny for a number of reasons including this reason. Or let him go.
Agree. If people don't like whatever happens, they should walk away. It's a true crossroad. I so agree with you. They gotta show their hand.
I believe she’s telling you what the priorities are 😂. It’s ok to talk about it.
We don't know how that translates to us getting a new coach specifically though. Even if it's a direct factor, we could still get a new coach. There are plenty of high quality, diverse candidates out there.
Exactly. She's clearly re-stating the University mission involves inclusion and diversity. This is a clear message but has been the school's mission for decades. Her comments are a response to some bills being passed or potentially passing that she is not in support of.
Why is it alarming? According to the article, UK's President and UofL President are responding to legislation recently introduced in the state legislature. The fact that it's 4 weeks from hopefully Kenny's last day is likely a coincidence, IMO.
I have made the same point to this tired troll. Asked him to stand by his prediction that our new coach will be a relative unknown and that said coach won’t put fans back in the stands. Of course, he declined to do so.
Who? “Big booster”…lol
Petrino 2.0 was 29-14 until a clown took over the department. Other inexplicable $hit followed.
Lol - where exactly have you posted any facts? Let’s sum up what you’ve said.
You are serving a straw man argument at Mike with this. You are accusing him of making a point he isn't making.
I get what you're saying but the Duke and UNC situations are not similar. Both Coach K and Williams "groomed" their heir apparents. They could have done an extensive coaching search but they didn't have to. Duke had their choice of Tommy Amaker, Chris Collins, Jeff Capel, Johnny Dawkins, Bobby Hurley... Why didn't Scheyer leave like the rest? Because he knew he was the coach in waiting. Former UNC players who are coaching are not as impressive but guys like Stackhouse, Jason Capel, Jeff Lebo, Wes Miller were not considered heir apparents.
I don’t remember the “tired argument” about Bobby’s buyout was “debunked”. All l remember is your undying faith in TJ’s ability to somehow “negotiate” a lower buyout if he had been here, and what a fool Tyra was for actually honoring the contract. Of course, in order to make that negotiation work, Vince would have had to make the case that Bobby essentially abandoned his job, and therefore a lower buyout was justified. I don’t know how that would have worked with Jimmy Sexton, but it certainly runs contrary to your position that Bobby’s failure was really Tyra’s failure, because Bobby was “doing just fine” until Jurich left the scene. If you’re right about that, he had to pay the full amount. In which case Tyra isn’t to blame for the size of the buyout. The guy who negotiated that buyout is to blame.
I’ll tell you what blew up Petrino 2.0, was his infantile, narcissistic bs when Jawon Pass threw a late INT deep in FSU territory (a play Petrino called) when milking the clock and kicking a fg would have given the Cards a 6 point lead with virtually no time left. He then proceed to rip Jawon up and down on National television in front of the team. He lost the team right then and there and his 2nd stint at Louisville. You don’t rip your young leader in front of the team for something that you caused.
I hope you're right about the loss of support. I think our admin hoped Kenny could run a competent program and they're probably still in a little bit of shock over how poorly it's gone.
I am not sure shocked is a strong enough word. I doubt this was even in the worst case scenario’s. If it was then I would be joining the lack of leadership mafia.
Well, I think that we can agree that hopefully there are no bridges burned but UofL has to consider the health of the program before anything else. In the long run, UofL might actually benefit from Payne being a failure of historical proportions. Were he to have meandered around .500 these last two years - we'd be taking about Year 4 - not Year 3 and then the program could slip into sustained mediocrity. See - Georgetown, Memphis, etc.
Well when those two were coaches DEI didn’t exist and UK moved on from those mistakes, and didn’t compound on them.
You think the average fan in this space thinks Payne deserves his $6 million buyout? Careful answering if you’re not ready for a stampede…
Petrino was understandably ok getting fired by a clown show. He wasn’t the only coach who ended up looking for a lifeboat; he was lucky his had $14 million in it.
That’s a lot of after the fact excuses that people struggling come up with.
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