He didn't recruit Beasley. A guy by the name of Delonte Hill did. Beasley committed to Charlotte where Hill coached. Hill brought him to K State. Keep trying.
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- We KNOW the SEC is charging $1.30 per subscriber inside the TV footprint at launch.
- We KNOW there are over 30 million subscribers inside the TV footprint.
- We KNOW the SEC is charging $0.25 per subscriber outside the TV footprint at launch.
- We know there is another 80+ million subscribers outside the TV footprint.
- We KNOW DISH, AT&T, and a rural network provider have signed on. Doing the math on that, we already KNOW it's worth over $5mil/school RIGHT NOW 5 months before launch -- with only 2 of the major providers.
At expected saturation -- which they've repeatedly stated is expected to be similar to ESPNU -- it's worth about $30million per school at current prices. I'm projecting that it's at very damn near full saturation in 2015 -- and probably will be before 2014 is over. Luckily, I went conservative on my initial numbers -- lest your head explode on the front end...
Now you are talking about players that were there one freaking year and proving my point. He had to rebuild after losing those players. Now you are arguing just to argue both you and Smoot. I am wrong that he recruited Beasley but those two were there one year! Just give it a rest!
Frank Martin (28-38 / 9-27) has made
180k per non conference win
422k per SEC win
with better talent when he got there
Rick Ray (24-41 / 7-29)
83k per non conference win
285k per SEC win
Looks to me like USCe fan base should be much more pissed about the last 2 years than our fan base.
Lets compare after year 3 when "hopefully" RR has a full roster to work with.
And don't give me the USCe has never been good in basketball. Because the last 10 years they have been as good or some could say better than we have.. Couple of NIT championships ( I believe back to back) , a East Division championship , and a trip to the NCAA
By your definition of Ray -- it's Martin's OWN fault that those players left after one year.
You are talking in circles -- and incapable of clearly defining a logical position without hypocritically applying parameters as you see fit. As is the case with the majority of the Ray haters. The extent to which Smoot is dominating this is hilarious really. You would have been way better off to throw out a "F Rick Ray" and left it at that instead of again pretending that you could logically debate it.
Give it a rest? You're the one who stated the opinions that Martin inherited more talent at SC than Ray did at State and that Martin rebuilt Kansas State. We disagree with those opinions and are backing up our argument against them. By 'give it a rest,' do you mean, 'stop hammering me with facts that go against my opinion?'
I think Martin did a very good job at KSU; I don't think he 'rebuilt' them, but he did keep the train rolling forward that Huggins started and had ultimately more success than Huggins did in his one year.
I don't think he's done anything special at SC. I think he inherited the better roster initially than Ray did, and I don't see how Martin has done a better job than Ray. The only reason anyone is trying to argue Martin had a worse roster last year is because Ray beat him twice and Martin publicly talked about what a great job Ray did; so the only way to try to de-legitimize that is to claim Ray should have beaten them last year, which is crazy.
Do y'all just have short term memory loss and sweep under the rug that we lost 14 of our last 15 games? I don't care how bad you are you can't do that and expect fan support no matter how bad the situation.
Cohen went 6-24 in his 2nd season as State coach
What will get the people on Ray's side? Improvement in Season 3. Rebuilding is over- now it's time for Brick Ray to get better
Cohen had a couple of 40 win seasons at another SEC school that fans could look at for encouragement thru the tough early seasons.
I'm hopeful Ray has a solid year 3, and I think he can.
SEC is also the strongest baseball conference but only like the 7th strongest basketball conference. The Cohen/Ray comparisons have to stop.
but to alot of people that loved Polk and kept hearing from that faction that Cohen wasnt the right person for the job- they didnt give a shit about what he had done at Kentucky. They were yelling loudly that Cohen cussed too much, the players hated him, and he would never win at State.
And to others, the fact that he could somehow go 6-24 at Miss State with all the success we had had and all the history- meant he couldnt handle the job.
Too much revisionist history on all his Kentucky success- a helluva lot of people didnt give a shit about that in May of 2010