Rumblings from the athletic office...

[biggun]

This. Not only that, but this year was an oddity in terms of how SEC teams were rated, as compared to the old RPI system. Davis' team was literally just like all those previous AK bubble teams, but they were overvalued with the new system; just like all the other teams were.....I mean, we were a 5 seed for God's sake...in other years, with our record and schedule, we'd have likely been an 8 or 9 seed, and would have had to fight to get that....which is definitely closer to what we deserved, considering how dysfunctional we were all season.

Amen. That we were a 5 seed was a testament to how soft a bubble the tourney had this year! We were a slightly above average basketball team that had 2 huge glaring weaknesses that were easily exploited by good basketball teams, especially on the road:
1. Turnovers - wayyyy too many, never valued the basketball
2. Terrible team defense - never learned to play team defense and when you had 2 starters who were far too often torched in man to man, you must have excellent help side D. We did not. Howland never tried a zone, and he should have, especially after losing Nick

[War Machine Dawg]

Someone tell me again why Stands is gone.

[DancingRabbit]

Someone tell me again why Stands is gone.

[shannondawg]

If not for fatboy, he would probably be here. He bet and lost, pure and simple.

[DanDority]

If not for fatboy, he would probably be here. He bet and lost, pure and simple.

When he told an athletic club that he thought he could manage said fatboy, but still has trouble coaching him, that was the END!

[Quaoarsking]

If not for fatboy, he would probably be here. He bet and lost, pure and simple.

That's absolutely false. There were lots of cancers on those late Stansbury Era teams, and it's ridiculous to pin the blame solely on Renardo (who is a total shithead, don't get me wrong).

[Lord McBuckethead]

What Rumblings? This was from 3 damn days ago. Rumblings were shit OP.

Well bump this shit post. I want to know what the rumblings were ... . Troll.

[Todd4State]

I'm not sure why some State fans won't let Stansbury go? Just puzzles me. He was good in his time and had a lot of success here but like everyone else his time ended and we had to move on.

[WildDawg]

I'm not sure why some State fans won't let Stansbury go? Just puzzles me. He was good in his time and had a lot of success here but like everyone else his time ended and we had to move on.

Same reason we think we are a perennial basketball powerhouse because we went to the final four in 1996. That was almost a quarter a century ago....23 years!!... and Stans wasn’t the coach of that team. Matter of fact, he never came close to smelling the final four! I like him and his family a lot, and we won some great games while he was here, but his scheme was pretty tame. Let him GO! Don’t hold him back anymore!

[smootness]

we went to the final four in 1994

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[WildDawg]

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Too early to think....fixed it.

[Tbonewannabe]

I'm not sure why some State fans won't let Stansbury go? Just puzzles me. He was good in his time and had a lot of success here but like everyone else his time ended and we had to move on.

We just had a quicker trigger on Stans than Jackie. Jackie went at least one year too long. 2000 was a let down and then follow it up with 2001 and 2002 but then give him another year to make sure we are fully at the bottom.

If we hire someone like Howland instead of Rick Ray (or any competent D1 head coach) then the program is in an entirely different place.

[Tbonewannabe]

Same reason we think we are a perennial basketball powerhouse because we went to the final four in 1996. That was almost a quarter a century ago....23 years!!... and Stans wasn’t the coach of that team. Matter of fact, he never came close to smelling the final four! I like him and his family a lot, and we won some great games while he was here, but his scheme was pretty tame. Let him GO! Don’t hold him back anymore!

He typically got a couple of shooters and the rest just great athletes and taught them to play defense and rebound. When he got great basketball players then we had years like 2004. At the end he lost the team and they weren't buying in to play defense and rebound as a team.

No reason a team with the talent of Moultrie and Dee Bost should have missed the tournament and then not even win the NIT.

[hopsondawg22]

The real rumblings going on in the Athletic department is the bowling in of the south endzone and putting in a hotel, along with premium seating. Which would be a trendsetter in the college football world.

[3rdGen]

The real rumblings going on in the Athletic department is the bowling in of the south endzone and putting in a hotel, along with premium seating. Which would be a trendsetter in the college football world.

Hahaha! That?s rich right there!!!!
I love it!! Somebody call the contracting office and let?s get the ball rolling.

Edit: how in the world is this thread still going? Are y?all not tired of talking about 17ing Kermit D.

Get it outta here!!!

[msbulldog]

Stansbury lost it when Robert Kirby went to Georgetown. Kirby was the disciplinarian and a semblance of a X's and O's guy.

[Lord McBuckethead]

The real rumblings going on in the Athletic department is the bowling in of the south endzone and putting in a hotel, along with premium seating. Which would be a trendsetter in the college football world.

Yep. That would be something. Not a hotel, but luxury condos if it we me. 2 bedroom, 2 bath with seating on the field side like the sky boxes.
I would do lower bowl seating 5-8k seats, with the M Club above, and then the condos above those.
I would have a party deck at the M Club level overlooking the junction.

A tower on one side with a giant 17n cast cowbell that the big donors get to ring 90 mintutes before the game telling everyone to go into the stadium.

Now John could hire me to design it. I would dedicate the next 5-6 years of my life to making it bad ass.

[BayouDawg]

Stansbury lost it when Robert Kirby went to Georgetown. Kirby was the disciplinarian and a semblance of a X's and O's guy.

This is accurate

[bulldawg28]

The real rumblings going on in the Athletic department is the bowling in of the south endzone and putting in a hotel, along with premium seating. Which would be a trendsetter in the college football world.

Let's make it happen!

[Lord McBuckethead]

Still waiting OP. Still waiting.