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hallstorm said:

This is exactly my point above. The dollar amounts that a couple posters point to as being the same game but larger figures clearly don’t understand what’s happening and the shopping around ( egregiously). It isn’t that simple and it’s easy to understand.

Every single division I kid—and his family and friends—now expect money and perks. It used to be the top 50, now it’s every one.

If anyone can’t understand that plus the free transferring rule as being a completely and entirely different animal, I really don’t know what to say.

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Yet you ignore the fact that 2-4 people were taking care of payments in the past. Now schools are reaching out to local businesses and all donors. I can do the same thing and say imagine if Willard, Gonzo and Orr could’ve gone to every alum and local businesses to get players. When you have 1,000 times more people involved of course prices will quadruple or more.

Hall 63
Nova 60

Some people are impossible not to like.

MichiganStoleTitle said:

No idea. But irrelevant. The fact remains that Sha was stubborn and misjudged the market—it’s no excuse to say he might not have gotten the money had he asked for it. And had he asked and been denied, it simply would have represented yet another of his infirmities as a leader of program: inability to persuade admin and donors to give him the required resources.

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How can you misjudge a market you have zero dollars to spend on?

How do you know he didn’t ask for it?

Just to be clear: when a SWAC coach can’t get a Kadary Richmond or lets a player transfer out to a school that can pay him it’s the coach’s fault?

SHUSource said:

Again, there is a huge difference between coming up with $50,000 and $1.5 and then also having to pay on a scale on down the line. And in the cases where, historically, we could not afford the star, we took three-star guys and developed them. Now, they show some skills and they are gone to chase their own million somewhere else. The entire dynamics around it all are entire different and thus, not comparable. You have examine these things as occurring in two different eras.

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This is exactly my point above. The dollar amounts that a couple posters point to as being the same game but larger figures clearly don’t understand what’s happening and the shopping around ( egregiously). It isn’t that simple and it’s easy to understand.

Every single division I kid—and his family and friends—now expect money and perks. It used to be the top 50, now it’s every one.

If anyone can’t understand that plus the free transferring rule as being a completely and entirely different animal, I really don’t know what to say.

Hall 42- Nova 41
Just will not let Season end without more pain

If you are focused on improving our trade balance it might make sense you have to balance that against negatives of decreasing value of dollar.My point was Trump seems obsessed with improving our trade balance as a way to support more investment in US and to have more produced in US of critical items like chips to reduce US dependence oh foreign countries for national security reasons..He may obviously be wrong but I think his approach is rational even if only supported by a miniority of economists

I called Willard. He assured me how hard it is to be beat the same team 3 times in a season. Hence Hall 65. Nova 59

Personally, I'm just rooting for quadruple overtime.

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JoePeppitone2012 said:

I don’t know why we didn’t t hire a GM seems like the move that should have been made

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Because what should be done and what actually is done are two totally different questions! This is why some people still want you to believe our NIL situation is just fine the way it is!

Rockaway said:

Trump seems to want to devalue the dollar either through tariffs or if they fail having Treasury buy foreign currencies.China sets their exchange rate at constant 7.5 to the dollar to keep the price of exports constant Tr.ump I think correctly feels that lower value dollar is needed to correct trade imbalance.

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Again, is this rational thought that we want to devalue our dollar????

HallGuy23 said:

I don’t know. Just going by rumors here. His job was to entice donors and create new partnerships. Who would have prevented him from doing that? Nobody. The man simply failed epically.

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No admin person at any school can do this on their own. Coaches need to be involved. Businesses in Ohio are going to partner with the OSU if Ryan Day shows up for 15 minutes a hell of a lot quicker than if a Mike McBride says I'm here to build a relationship with you and the school. Guys like McBride are there to make sure we don't miss any of the scraps and make sure relationships stay strong, but the real money needs coach involvement. If we think Pitino is going to have his record relying on some administrators building new donors and partners, we're all out of our minds. Pitino is going to make sure his record is good and that means making sure he's making the big relationships that matter, not relying on others he doesn't control. If Mike's doing it on his own, it's just another failure at the top.

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I helped the Sports Information Department (as many of my WSOU colleagues did) during John's early days at SHU.

He had a bit of a hill to climb with me as John Wooding was very good to me and helped create some opportunities for me.

But John won me over and likewise gave me some opportunities to grow.

He's a good man and the Big East will miss him. Here's to an enjoyable retirement.

SHUisNJsTeam said:

Did he really steal it or was he not allowed to really earn it? Was he fired, as you are implying, or did he simply leave because he wasn’t allowed to do his job the way it should be done?

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I don’t know. Just going by rumors here. His job was to entice donors and create new partnerships. Who would have prevented him from doing that? Nobody. The man simply failed epically.

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The Hall 74 Villanova 72
I am selling a bridge at a reasonable price.LOL

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Hall Is Life said:

Feels like a job for Gus.

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I can see it now. Pink headband. Pink sneakers. Runs into the game with lots of emotion 3 seconds after tip, looking like the "big" from Teen Wolf. Throws a haymaker or all haymakers. And then waves his arms to the crowd like crazy as he is DQ'ed.

Hope we show up tonight and avoid players checking out already.

Nova 74
SHU 61

connel said:

It's so simple to say that this year we had no NIL money and couldn't assemble an appropriate roster. It's foolish to think that next year with comparable money we will be competitive. We are sooooooooooo far behind any legitimate program in terms of management, personnel, and leadership. The veritable brain trust we have is going to be responsible for $5-6M in spend. None of them were hired for this. Sha was hired to coach a team and recruit. Now we expect him to make strategic decisions about salary cap/NIL distributions. Felt...hahahahaha.

There is a reason why other schools have a GM amongst other roles which would require a significant investment that SHU will never make. So we will throw crap at the wall and misallocate money and hopefully not finish 11th. SHU is small ball....

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Devils advocate is that much of the same group oversaw a very strong 6-7 year stretch under Willard. Maybe they are perfectly competent, badly miscalculated NIL and the new world of recruiting, and used the past three months of a dead season to figure out a plan to fix everything.

Nothing I’ve seen even remotely suggests this to be the case. But it is my hope.