CrazyFan wrote:I wonder what happened. I didn't see any cell phone video's posted by the TMZ Tillers, so we wont get any information that way.
Give it up already. You stopped being funny 11 years ago when you joined this site.
Weren't you and the family going to buy out Roos yourselves? What are you waiting for, Geno to hit the open market?
Someone on this site told me to stop posting how much me and my family donates so I'm not going to list the actual figures but I did have a discussion with Moose.
We were willing to cut back the 2 yearly scholarships we provide to BG athletes as well cancel our 4 seasons tickets in basketball and hockey and 8 for football and use all that to help buy out a certain contract but it wasn't enough. Like others have said BG just doesn't buy out contracts even when people step up and provide financial support.
So we have officially confirmed that Kingston's handout of a contract extension after 9 wins, was a historically awful decision.
We haven't had a decent AD since Krebs left. Christopher was just a bad guy who used BG to get himself his next job. Also the most overrated fundraiser in the history of college athletics.
Kingston had no clue what he was doing. Made a bunch of promises he couldn't deliver on and really made some bad decisions.
Moose hasn't done anything in his first year to indicate we're on the right track. In his defense, I think the bigger problem is our president. You can't run an athletic department on the budget BG is asked to. We don't have enough money to fund our MAC sponsored sports and then you add a hockey program that you can't afford. The budget needs to be big enough to fully fund the scholarships of our sports we sponsor. If BG can't afford that, than really we should just drop athletics.
Yep...if you're going to be a D1 department...fund a D1 department. If that isn't what you want to do...drop to a lower division or simply move on from sports. Half assing this isn't really serving anyone's interest other than the football coaches who seem to benefit greatly from working here...eventually ...and the less competent "big" sport coaches we can't afford to fire.
It's not the fall that hurts...it's when you hit the ground.
Flipper wrote:Or to put it another way...it sucks to be poor.
The Tiller thing is weird...to just keep throwing that out there after a couple of years when no one involved in that situation is even working here any more seems pointless....like continuously saying Kingston made bad decisions. Yeah he did...he's gone now so,......
So all of the major coaches he hired are still here, and all had losing seasons. In reality, BG is the best basketball job in the conference. You get paid what BG basically cannot afford. It's pretty much stated by the AD, BG can't fire you without cause, yet they give out contracts the same length as those who do have the funds. It makes no sense yet, BG hands out contract extensions years early, when history proves that pretty much every coach with another option, leaves BG as soon as an offer is made. Just a general lack of reality in the department.
Jinks took over a program with some issues...not excusing his steep learning curve or the length of time it took him to figure out we should run the ball a lot...I have some confidence in him though. Seems like a hell of a recruiter, so I'm willing to give him a shot. Same thing with Huger. I like how the roster seems to be coming together. He really should have found a big...almost any big... last year when Mayleben left, but...again...I think he's going to get us where we want to be.
I have no faith in Roos
I don't think Bergeron is the guy to get us back to any kind of prominence. He put out the dumpster fire, but moving to the WCHA was supposed to be our ticket back to the big time and that simply doesn't seem to be in the cards with him at the helm.
There is no upside to extending a coach here...none. They'll walk on us if they're good...sure you'll get a buyout of a couple hundred grand or so, but is that worth the risk of paying out three times that if the coach turns out to be a dud. You want to talk about tacking on two years when you're heading into your last year? That would work...adding three when you're two years in a four year deal? Not on your life
It's not the fall that hurts...it's when you hit the ground.
Flipper wrote:Jinks took over a program with some issues...not excusing his steep learning curve or the length of time it took him to figure out we should run the ball a lot...I have some confidence in him though. Seems like a hell of a recruiter, so I'm willing to give him a shot. Same thing with Huger. I like how the roster seems to be coming together. He really should have found a big...almost any big... last year when Mayleben left, but...again...I think he's going to get us where we want to be.
I have no faith in Roos
I don't think Bergeron is the guy to get us back to any kind of prominence. He put out the dumpster fire, but moving to the WCHA was supposed to be our ticket back to the big time and that simply doesn't seem to be in the cards with him at the helm.
There is no upside to extending a coach here...none. They'll walk on us if they're good...sure you'll get a buyout of a couple hundred grand or so, but is that worth the risk of paying out three times that if the coach turns out to be a dud. You want to talk about tacking on two years when you're heading into your last year? That would work...adding three when you're two years in a four year deal? Not on your life
For what it's worth, Bergeron's name was mentioned a lot in the various coaching vacancies around the country. Chris Nell's father passing away just before the season started played a huge part in our slow start this year. Had that not happened I believe that we would've been watching the championship game at home as opposed to at MTU. Just my .02
Flipper wrote:I don't think Bergeron is the guy to get us back to any kind of prominence. He put out the dumpster fire, but ... [getting] back to the big time ... simply doesn't seem to be in the cards with him at the helm.
Bergeron is arguably the best coach we have in a major sport. He has led Bowling Green hockey's charge back from near oblivion. Twice now his Falcons have come within inches of making the NCAA tournament.
Of our major sports, no one else has a track record like that.
I would compare Bergeron right now to Dave Clawson in the year or two before his football team finally won a MAC title. Many on this board did not believe he could do it, but the trajectory seemed pretty clear. Clawson had accomplished much the same at two FCS programs and his Falcons seemed on much the same path.
I don't follow hockey as closely as some on this board. But when I look at the progress Bergeron has made here and the enormous success Miami had when he was an assistant there, I see a winner.
Bergeron will eventually get BG back to the NCAA tournament, but it will more because it's a poor conference than anything special he brings as a coach. The last 2 years the team has underachieved playing one of the easier schedules in college hockey. Not saying he should be fired, but he certainly isn't giving BG an edge over Michigan Tech or Minnesota State.
Bergeron is Clawson in the senses that he put out the fire and got the house in order again...Claws on built a team that won two conference championships in three years. Bergeron has two "close, but no cigar" runs in conference tournaments from a lower seed. He hasn't gotten over the hump...I'm not saying we should can him...got bigger problems to deal with...but I question if he's the guy to get us "there".
Then again...given our status in the WCHA and all the other budget constraints we face...can anybody get us " there"?
It's not the fall that hurts...it's when you hit the ground.
Show me the law that says a conversation can't take a turn and I'll have some sympathy. If you ask someone how they're doing and they start talking about the weather do you say "Hey..STFU...I didn't ask you about the weather"?
It's not the fall that hurts...it's when you hit the ground.
Flipper wrote:Show me the law that says a conversation can't take a turn and I'll have some sympathy. If you ask someone how they're doing and they start talking about the weather do you say "Hey..STFU...I didn't ask you about the weather"?
