Even in Stans last four years, fans packed the Hump, students stood in line for games, there was excitement!
Howland, not so much!
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Not charged? Yes you are correct but here is a link about is being under investigation. Also I posted we were under the microscope and that's a fact. He was told to stop certain things after 05 and didn't
https://www.djournal.com/sports/msu-...45ecd7dcf.html
Anyone that thinks Howland or Pinson is worth a shit is a dumb 17.
What are women's basketball tickets? $5? Men's basketball has to make money off of tickets which means corporate tickets and tickets sold to people not in easy driving distance, which means unless we really develop a formal system that encourages ticket holders to get tickets to people that use them, you're not going to have as easy of a time packing out the hump.
That said, I think pretty much all sports are battling attendance issues and most sports are also losing viewers at the same time. Lots of different things going into that.
Regardless, it sounds like Howland will return if nothing more than financial reasons. Due to the shortfall of money from COVID, it seems Mississippi State doesn't want to pay a $6 million buy out to Ben Howland. Things could change between now and the end of the season, but I'm not anticipating a change at this point. If it does happen, I'd be willing to bet that Cohen hires an assistant rather than paying an established head coach.
Right because some of our DA fans can't grasp that maybe Stans was pretty average in a down SEC in a division that was down while he was here and he still didn't ever do jack crap in the Tourney.
You are wanting someone who makes runs in the post season and yet you are arguing we shouldn't have gotten rid of Stans.
You can't have your cake and eat it too. Either making an occasional NCAAT and getting bounced in the first round is acceptable or it isn't and if it isn't then you shouldn't be a stans fan either because that is all he did.
About what I figured would happen. Bring him back by default so we can suck again next year and delay the inevitable 1 more miserable season.
I get basketball is nowhere near the revenue darling football is for colleges (shoot I don?t even know how many colleges are profit makers from men?s basketball), but USCe just fired Boom with his buyout equating out to around $13-15 mil and their athletic dept. is gonna have around a $44 mil deficit this fiscal year. I?m sure their athletic budget is much larger than ours (going off 2018-19 numbers about $35 mil larger overall) but haven?t we done well in years past of staying in the black to where it wouldn?t be a back breaker to pay a lame duck HC?s buyout of $6 mil in one of your big 3 sports? I might be way off here and I?m fine saying I am if someone who knows more than me corrects me. But crap, could Cohen not talk him into retirement and a reduced ?buyout? and let him fly on back out to Cali to retire out there?
I didn?t say he would. I said Cohen should try to talk him into retirement and a reduced buyout, still a buyout, but lower than the $6 mil number. If he wouldn?t budge on it, then scrape up some booster support if you got to get rid of a guy that you know isn?t the answer. Do you think he?s the answer next year? Do you feel good about men?s basketball and going into next season with Howland? Are you excited about the direction of the program?
And I said, I didn?t say he would take a reduced buyout. But that?s an angle Cohen should attempt if he thinks it?s time to move on from Howland. Mutually part ways and see if early retirement is something he?d consider along with a handsome fee, but a reduced fee from the $6 mil number.
If the boosters wanted him gone the AD doesn't go to them to scrape up the money. The boosters come to him & say it's time we have the money. The fact that hasn't happened yet gives you your answer. Now there's still games left to play this season but as of now no one think he getting let go this year.