I don’t care enough to help pay off a $5-6 million buyout on contracts I wasn’t involved in. I’ll use my money for better things. I‘ve worked hard for my money and I’m not giving it away like that.
How are you feeling right now about the team and program?
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RamStrut
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Haha I know. I wouldn’t really ever want to do the billboard thing they did.
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I had a conversation with a player as well in a gym hot tub of all places haha and he thought Wade was a fantastic coach but didn’t always agree with his approach but he had the team dialed in.
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Hopefully our players will take it upon themselves to dial it in.
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One of these stings for 4-5 days. They make meds for it to lessen the itch, hydrocortisone, spray benzocaine. Both are about 8 bucks a tube/can. Not much you can do once you've been bit besides treatment.
The other lasts about 3 minutes, just long enough to grab my keys and get into the aisle once the game clock hits 0:00. They make meds to lessen the itch for this, too. But we can choose to leave the sting behind, and let the players deal with what is, in essence, their sting to treat.
Not ours, yall.
The other lasts about 3 minutes, just long enough to grab my keys and get into the aisle once the game clock hits 0:00. They make meds to lessen the itch for this, too. But we can choose to leave the sting behind, and let the players deal with what is, in essence, their sting to treat.
Not ours, yall.
That would hold true for our competition too. I won't speak for last night, but overall i hadn't noticed a drop off in effort--I think it's just not being taught well or the pieces meshing well. It's not a new problem this year.
I think many posters frustrations are because these players are ALL his. He recruited them for his style and his vision. Yet progress seems as if he’s first year and dealing with inherited players adapting to his style. I don’t have the answer. I do know this…it often feels in-game, when something isn’t working, we keep doing the same thing. I don’t get that. I’ve been a fan for years. My personal opinion is our best in-game coaches for making player and defensive/offense adjustments to competition were Dana Kirk and Will Wade. Interestingly JD Barnett and Shaka each had more success but they didn’t adjust in-game as well in my opinion. But they did recruit and enforce their style like few others.
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In response to the thread title I'll start by agreeing with the general sentiment around here in that I too feel pretty dismal right now although my reasons are different than what I have been reading. I am genuinely curious for those who are frustrated with Rhoades and want to see him gone which programs around the country they are comparing us to. I can't think of more than one mid-major program right now modeling towards greatness and clearly on the cusp of being invited to a larger conference. While this is not an attempt to defend our coach I hold serious reservations for a burn it all down and start fresh approach mainly because it is my firm view that college sports, love it or hate it, has completely and totally changed with the arrival of NIL coupled with the transfer portal. It is also my view that a lot of those who pushed for such changes have yet to fully appreciate, or simple don't care, how much damage those two changes are going to have on the majority of programs. As much as I want to hold on to the idea that we can ride past, present or future success to a higher level I've arrived at the acceptance of that being closer to something of a fantasy in the current era. The data sample is so small right now but the introduction of money to college athletes and doing away with transfer rules requiring undergraduate student athletes to sit out a year after transferring is surely going to further tilt the deck against everything we aim to achieve. Again, small sample size, but look what happened to last year's big success stories with Murray State and Saint Peters. As soon as the ball stopped bouncing they became total rebuilds from the top down. I mean everyone bolted. In the last 15 years (before NIL & transfer rules) the only real successful campaign to raise and sustain a program's profile that comes to my mind is Butler. People will quickly point to Gonzaga but their momentum started two decades ago and Mark Few has publicly stated he's going to struggle to compete for recruits under the NIL rule changes as it really comes down to resources.
My bitterness is deeper than the coaching staff or who's more deserving of a few minutes of playing time. My true concern is we're no longer competing on anything remotely close to a level playing field and I'm growing less convinced of the possibilities each passing day. I wish I felt differently but there's a growing sense of dreams slipping away and no replacement coach is going to change it given the sudden changes in the landscape of college sports. The big boys have won.
My bitterness is deeper than the coaching staff or who's more deserving of a few minutes of playing time. My true concern is we're no longer competing on anything remotely close to a level playing field and I'm growing less convinced of the possibilities each passing day. I wish I felt differently but there's a growing sense of dreams slipping away and no replacement coach is going to change it given the sudden changes in the landscape of college sports. The big boys have won.
Agree. Best in game coaches for making adjustments in my years of being Ramfsn are Dana Kirk and will Wade. Dana may have been the best.
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Agreed.
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he knew that you needed to tailor your system to the players you have even if that meant changes every week.
more important, he made all those changes untill they worked.
nothing was carved in stone other than he expected/demanded effort. even from Tillman which upset people here but was needed.
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He did straighten up and fly right though. Connecting does not require liking.
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Still need a coach to lead them
I’m comparing us to VCU... from 2007 to 2017. With 4 different coaches.