I’m guessing Carla thought she was in the clear after BOC turned down A&M but she didn’t produce for him and also slapped him in the face with the rev share stuff
Miss St is basically abandoning their bball program to go in on baseball.
Anyone on their bball team we can poach? I assume Hubbard is a bulldog for life
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Not sure we can do what Carolina did to replace its legend Fox with a longtime assistant.
So have to poach a guy like Clemson did (decent Michigan HC who was the right hand at Vandy) or as FSU did — an HC from a good program that has become a cradle of coaches.
You don’t wanna hear the other rumor floating around, which is that Dickinson will be one of the potential candidates to take over if BOC leaves.
Ugh — if they’re going that way, give it to McMullan.
If BOC leaves KMac almost certainly goes with him.
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John Grisham, we need you! A Time to Save.
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I don’t have any inside info, but I can do math, so I can tell you with 100% certainty that if the pie is the same size, if you make one slice bigger, some other slice or slices have to be smaller. Even if the pie’s getting larger, but not fast enough to keep up with the size increase of one slice, the other slices still get smaller.
As far as job performance, I’d say figure out what sports the largest, most influential donors care about. I don’t know the answer to that. I do know that WBB has at least 1 well known donor who would be very upset if his donation to fund WBB was redirected to baseball.
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Depends whether he wants another run as the head guy. He was great in his interim year at ECU, and he managed a minor league team in the Braves org.
He could be really good for a decade — especially his reputation— national assistant of the year three times, multiple great hitters who’ve been first-rounders, etc.
Maybe he’s our Scott Forbes, after all.
I think this general dynamic is not always clear in the revenue sharing discussions. How much of the revenue sharing pie is actually coming from donor funding that has the typical strings attached? That really matters when it comes to allocation.
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He’s been at UVA for 22 years … how long is a long haul??
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I should’ve clarified as well. Donor to WBB would be very upset if his donation to WBB were redirected to baseball or prior WBB funding was reduced and redirected elsewhere because he donated to WBB.
I would guess that he expects his donation to be in addition to regular funding, not in lieu of it.
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Got it, that makes sense, as I think donations are excluded from the revenue sharing calculation. But as you’re putting it, there are intuitive second-order effects of the revenue sharing model that would position donors to continue to have influence (e.g. athletic departments need to cover expense gaps that appear after re-allocating revenue to athlete payment).
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Also, my bad sorry. For some reason I thought you were saying whether or not funding for one had to decrease if funding for another was increased, but now I get that you were saying whether or not it is true that WBB was getting funded over baseball.
Totally my mistake and sorry about my tone in the earlier post.
I’d say that the Author would not be happy if Coach went to his other school’s main rival. We’ll see if he has enough influence or really cares enough to spend even more money.
Or if he’s at the point Charles Barkley is with Auburn and just tapped out.
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I mean Grisham went to MSU undergrad.
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TIL
I never knew, always thought he went to Ole Miss for everything. Guess it was just law school.
Yikes, he could be tipping the scales in the wrong direction this time
I know. Accounting major. And Ole Miss for law school. But he’s been a loyal UVA supporter as well.
I hate to be the “this isn’t the ____ I used to love and know guy”, but I can’t help but be saddened by the news.
I’m sure they’ll hire someone who keeps the program in good standing but I’m a 25 year old guy who grew up going to UVA sporting events and being obsessed with the football, basketball, and baseball teams. Dad is an alum, it worked out in a way that I ended up attending a different university while keeping my UVA fandom.
Having Oak and Tony leave while not being an alum has certainly hurt my feeling of connectedness to the school. Still bond over UVA sports because my Dad and I share that, but still a bummer.
Odom was a good hire and I’m sure whoever baseball hires will do a solid job too. Just feels….. different.
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