I just still dont understand the bitter Stands supporters

[Schultzy]

The bottom line is this. Rick had let the program get so bad that Scott was getting turned down by multiple mid major head coaches, and he knew nothing would change if he had done what some alumni/former players wanted and hired Kenny Payne. Rick Ray essentially took a job he was likely never going to be able to win with. The coach that succeeded Rick Stansbury was doomed to fail due to the mess he was inheriting, unless the administration is patient and gives them 5-6 years like Baylor did with Scott Drew.

This is what I thought everyone would understand post Stansbury. I can't understand why people don't get this.

[shannondawg]

It took them out of 2nd place.

Read what I said. I just said I was more excited about their loss than our win. How the 17 do you construe that I would not be excited about their loss Thursday. You ditto heads amaze me.

Sorry, but that OM loss didn't hurt them that much. They're still in the tourney.

Seems this Thursday you're in a real pickle. Do you detest ray or Om more? OM loses to us and they're on the outside looking in. We win and ray has another quality win this year to get to .500 and 6-7 in the sec

[BiscuitEater]

I just still dont understand the bitter Stands supporter

MSU Basketball... I just never understood all the "bitter Stans haters" which you were the head cheerleader for.

Let it go ... Stans is gone. Meanwhile, you continue to bring up ALL of Stans faults almost three years after he has GONE.

Enough all ready.

[coastdoglover]

Amen, but his obsession is never ending. Let it go and enjoy what you wished for. Most of us have moved on.

MSU Basketball... I just never understood all the "bitter Stans haters" which you were the head cheerleader for.

Let it go ... Stans is gone. Meanwhile, you continue to bring up ALL of Stans faults almost three years after he has GONE.

Enough all ready.

[WinningIsRelentless]

MSU Basketball... I just never understood all the "bitter Stans haters" which you were the head cheerleader for.

Let it go ... Stans is gone. Meanwhile, you continue to bring up ALL of Stans faults almost three years after he has GONE.

Enough all ready.

That is because he said the job was a top 10 and we could get anyone we wanted.

[engie]

enjoy what you wished for. Most of us have moved on.

This is a perfect example of talking out of both sides of your mouth. If you had actually moved on, you wouldn't still be taking jabs under the pretense that what the program is right now, today, is "what anyone actually wished for". It isn't. Everyone understands that you were satisfied being a top 100 program into perpetuity like we were over the past 7 years -- that doesn't make anyone that aspired for more "wrong."

While coach apparently hasn't let it go -- it's pretty clear that almost no one on the other side of the fence has let it go yet either...

[engie]

That is because he said the job was a top 10 and we could get anyone we wanted.

Link?

[shannondawg]

If you will notice , all threads that are created on this subject just like today are the haters of Stansbury, mainly Coach, and if not about Stansbury, he will maneuver it toward him, and then the posters come in defense of Stansbury.

He may just do that to keep the activity on the board going, and if that was the only reason, my hats off to him, but its not I'm afraid. He has a serious problem, and its call Stanisphobia. I still think its about his love of Richard Williams and him thinking that Stansbury caused him to lose his job. Even in todays environment, being married and sleeping with one of the heaviest hitting boosters that is best friend of the AD teenage daughter ,ain't going to let you keep your job, especially if that said boosters wife has her hatchet out.l
But that's just my opinion.

[Acid mouth]

What truth- you said you didnt read what I wrote. Ok. Go read it and respond to it. Dont post a bunch of crap

MSU Basketball... I just never understood all the "bitter Stans haters" which you were the head cheerleader for.

Let it go ... Stans is gone. Meanwhile, you continue to bring up ALL of Stans faults almost three years after he has GONE.

Enough all ready.

It's called trolling the MSU basketball fans. This is what my ole miss friends do.

[Liverpooldawg]

This is a perfect example of talking out of both sides of your mouth. If you had actually moved on, you wouldn't still be taking jabs under the pretense that what the program is right now, today, is "what anyone actually wished for". It isn't. Everyone understands that you were satisfied being a top 100 program into perpetuity like we were over the past 7 years -- that doesn't make anyone that aspired for more "wrong."

While coach apparently hasn't let it go -- it's pretty clear that almost no one on the other side of the fence has let it go yet either...

He wanted Stans gone and he got his wish. Now the fall out from that wish may not have turned out like he imagined it would, but there is NO denying he got what he campaigned for for years.

[dawgs]

This is what I thought everyone would understand post Stansbury. I can't understand why people don't get this.

Baylor had impending huge ncaa problems looming, a MURDER lingering over the program, and was banned from playing non-conference games in drew's 3rd year. The baylor situation was exponentially worse than our situation. We had some bad apples and lacked some discipline. That's a pretty common problem among jobs where the coach is fired/forced out/strongly encouraged to retire or resign.

[dawgs]

I also hate that if you want to give ray more time, then you are a Stans hater, but if you want ray fired, then you are a Stans supporter. That's bullshit. I'm grateful for everything Stans did, but the last half decade of his tenure was just season after season of underachieving, and the Sidney shit was the nail in the coffin. Ray was a terrible hire with a lackluster resume from the get go and he hasn't shown anything to indicate he's going to be a successful HC. He's losing to swac teams with a core of 3rd year players and struggling to have a .500 overall record.

[Schultzy]

Baylor had impending huge ncaa problems looming, a MURDER lingering over the program, and was banned from playing non-conference games in drew's 3rd year. The baylor situation was exponentially worse than our situation. We had some bad apples and lacked some discipline. That's a pretty common problem among jobs where the coach is fired/forced out/strongly encouraged to retire or resign.

But our roster was depleted on that same level as theirs was and we were thought to be going on probation in coaching circles over the Sydney ordeal which can have the same affect as probation in hiring and recruiting, and did. So "exponentially " worse is hyperbole in my opinion.

[Coach34]

That is because he said the job was a top 10 and we could get anyone we wanted.

Who said the MSU job was a Top 10 job???????????????????

Also, I never said we could hire "anyone we wanted"...I said we could hire a good coach to replace him- but that was also before Stands let the program become "the most dysfunctional programin America" according to The Sporting News and us becoming a joke to the ESPN guys.

[Coach34]

I also hate that if you want to give ray more time, then you are a Stans hater, but if you want ray fired, then you are a Stans supporter. That's bullshit. .

Nobody is throwing you and some of the others that feel that way into the University of Stands group. The University of Stands people stand out like a sore thumb and always make themselves known. Hell, if Ray doesnt win anymore SEC games this year- I want him gone. But that doesnt put me in the University of Stands group.

[drunkernhelldawg]

Its sad to say, but I was a lot more excited about Ole Miss losing last night, than I was about us winning yesterday. Ole Miss losing cost them, our winning did nothing for us. This is from a person whose week was affected by our wins and losses in the past.

Its not just about wins and losses, its about perception, And my perception is when we hit absolute rock bottom, maybe Stricklin will do something.

That's messed up. You need to take some time and find a way to see things more objectively.

[dawgs]

But our roster was depleted on that same level as theirs was and we were thought to be going on probation in coaching circles over the Sydney ordeal which can have the same affect as probation in hiring and recruiting, and did. So "exponentially " worse is hyperbole in my opinion.

The Sidney shit was over by the time we were hiring a coach. The ncaa had done that investigation and suspended him early in his career and moved along. There was no pending investigation when Stans stepped down. Our roster might have been depleted, but we didn't have any of the other problems baylor had, which included a MURDER and an ongoing investigation that lingered for 2 years into drew's tenure and resulted in them being banned from playing non-conference games in year 3 (and a lot of talk of a death penalty before the big 12 lobbied to just ban them from non-conference games so that it wouldn't adversely affect the conference scheduling on short notice). That is all exponentially worse than simply rebuilding a roster and purging some bad eggs. Drew had to rebuild the roster while simultaneously dealing with all the other shit. Oh yeah, and baylor had no where near the success we had in the 20 years prior to Drew, so he couldn't even sell returning the program to relevancy, he had to sell recruits on simply making the program relevant along with all the other shit. Once the non-conference ban was done, it only took drew 2 years to build a ncaa team.

Some of y'all are really buying into the sales job on how bad our situation was. Our situation wasn't all that much different from a majority of P5 rebuild jobs when a coach is fired or forced out.

[Schultzy]

It was not over in the minds of the pool of coaches we were trying to hire. And it's not about Baylor anyway, with the shape Ray inherited the program, we shouldn't be further along than we are currently outside of landing a five star dominant player.

[dawgs]

It was not over in the minds of the pool of coaches we were trying to hire. And it's not about Baylor anyway, with the shape Ray inherited the program, we shouldn't be further along than we are currently outside of landing a five star dominant player.

Coaches knew the Sidney stuff was over. And with a core of juniors in the starting lineup, we absolutely should be better than we are. What are we gonna be next year when they are seniors? Competing for a top 100 rpi? Then start the building over again?

And it is about comparing us to baylor because someone point out that baylor took 5 or 6 years. Well yeah because they had a lot more to overcome INCLUDING the closest thing we've seen to a death penalty in major college sports since smu in year 3 of drew's tenure.

[Schultzy]

We have a good shooting big man coming off injury, couple of 4 stars signed and a base of seniors to help give them time to develop next year.
Of course we are improving and have very good talent on the way.