Some musings:
1. The school doesn’t seem to care at all about its reputation, which stinks of living in the past. We’ve got media galore and opposing coaches calling us out. We just opened a beautiful, state-of-the-art facility and did nothing to use it to refute things and did so little to even promote it. Nobody has any media connections or positioning or anything. We sort of sit there quietly.
2. On the basketball, I do think Sha should take more of a hit here. He and his staff brought this group in and they couldn’t play. And then any notion of “development” went out the window as they all walked out except the true freshmen. Dual got a bit better late, but he was so far off to start the year and Harmon imploded (a known risk). This level of whiffing then derailed anything the team could do with DAW of all people at PG. Sha was also visibly miserable all season long, it’s a bad look. And now with the players free to come and go, that is something he needs to be cognizant of. They don’t have to just deal and learn to deal with him.
3. I’m a bit dubious on the Deloitte Clearinghouse element being a reality; seems contrary to all rulings and NCAA self-auditing to date. So, the big question is do we have the people in place to adapt? Over the 3 years of Holloway’s tenure, the sport did a 180 in terms of what it was and what it’s become. We have a bunch of people in leadership positions across business development, operations, and the basketball itself who are engrained in SHU and built their entire career on the way things were, in most cases with small schools needing the perks of guardrails. Sharp people adapt. Do we have that? Do we need to be more open to bring in help (don’t ask Mike McBride, LOL). Felt is hinting they need help but he’s seemingly unable to do it?
