U of L needs to understand why money and attendance are down. That's in order to fix the problem, not determine "how well Tyra is doing." It's his job to fix these problems regardless of why or how they happened. That's if you're holding him accountable to do his job as AD.
Well, what if continuing problems relate to what he (and U of L) is NOT doing? What if their management of the program is the central issue? What if they simply refuse to acknowledge that? Is THAT their fault?
If I understand you correctly, that's the everyone-else-does-it argument. And while true, I'm not giving U of L a pass for lack of transparency and honesty. In fact, this regime took over on the basis of "ethics" and that Mom-and-apple-pie garbage. They're the LAST group I'm giving a pass to for doing business as usual.
Let's keep your facts straight about my views on Mack and recruiting... It was supposedly a very urgent situation to quickly remove Padgett and situate Mack in order to salvage our recruiting for 2018. At least that was the narrative I was fed. And what did we accomplish? We landed three lightly regarded grad transfers well down everyone's list, and no late high school commitments. So that benefit was a bust, but I don't recall anyone walking back the narrative. (Maybe you did...)
I also don't recall trashing the 2019 class at any point because it was never a finished job to evaluate. In fact, I've credited Mack with recruiting kids BELOW the level of five star who are more likely--but not guaranteed--to be clean. If I've criticized him in any way, it's that he's not really bringing in kids better than Pitino did--nor probably should he in the short run--and he's making 80% of what a hall-of-famer was paid. I'd call that less criticism and more observation, but fine if you wanna characterize it that way. I stand behind my remarks regardless.
"Vince" and Mack had a good win today after a bad loss earlier this week. Let's see what the next few games bring. If I'm right, however, it won't bring any more ticket buying fans...
