When Haith gets to the Big Dance with his recruits, he will get the salary bump.
ORU is dead athletically and as an 'educational' institution. Better to use the land as an amusement park called TV Preacherland.
There are some different issues facing ORU, some of it is budgetary as they simply don't have the same pool of money for recruiting or assistant coaches' salaries. The other part is the type of university it is. They can get most recruits admitted, but finding players who are able to live the lifestyle expected at ORU is more difficult and contrary to popular belief, ORU really doesn't look the other way. There are reasons why some of their better players the last 3-4 years have transferred out at weird times. It's certainly not for lack of playing time.That's all a little cruel. They are in a bad spot, but deserve better than a lot of the other low majors they are lumped in with. I don't understand what happened, unless Eddie did the player evals or they can't afford their Swaim subscription anymore. They just don't have the quality of players they used to. They've also lost some assistant coaches over the years.
If it were us, we'd be demanding a new coach. They are nothing if not loyal and I think that is part of this. But man, they are going to have to get lucky on some of these young guys they have. Sutton has done it before so I won't create a record saying they can't. Last time that happened we got four years of Caleb Green.
That's all a little cruel. They are in a bad spot, but deserve better than a lot of the other low majors they are lumped in with. I don't understand what happened, unless Eddie did the player evals or they can't afford their Swaim subscription anymore. They just don't have the quality of players they used to. They've also lost some assistant coaches over the years.
If it were us, we'd be demanding a new coach. They are nothing if not loyal and I think that is part of this. But man, they are going to have to get lucky on some of these young guys they have. Sutton has done it before so I won't create a record saying they can't. Last time that happened we got four years of Caleb Green.
There are some but what program doesn't have their fair share of bad eggs that come in? The majority are actually good kids. I get to see them almost every day outside of the basketball realm.Little Fuqua is pretty good, but isn't the shooter his dad was yet. I think he will struggle on defense and that's really their biggest issue. He's fast.
I see BLA defending the players above, but I know of some who didn't follow the code of conduct over there. I'm not impressed.
From news reports quoted on the AAC board Tubby is making just over 3 million per year.Don't think Tubby is making that much.
Call me shocked... He only made $1.6M at Texas Tech. Reported his first year at Memphis he was paid $2.6M, $2.8 next year and then $3.25M the last 3 years of his deal. Was the situation in Minnesota so bad that he took a pay cut of $600k to just be able to leave?From news reports quoted on the AAC board Tubby is making just over 3 million per year.
I think the Minnesota situation was like Haith and Misery - get out while the getting out is good, before the crowd with pitchforks breach the gates.Call me shocked... He only made $1.6M at Texas Tech. Reported his first year at Memphis he was paid $2.6M, $2.8 next year and then $3.25M the last 3 years of his deal. Was the situation in Minnesota so bad that he took a pay cut of $600k to just be able to leave?
TU_BLA...There are some different issues facing ORU, some of it is budgetary as they simply don't have the same pool of money for recruiting or assistant coaches' salaries. The other part is the type of university it is. They can get most recruits admitted, but finding players who are able to live the lifestyle expected at ORU is more difficult and contrary to popular belief, ORU really doesn't look the other way. There are reasons why some of their better players the last 3-4 years have transferred out at weird times. It's certainly not for lack of playing time.
TU_BLA...
ORU quit looking the other way after Ken Trickey left ORU. Before that it was anything goes...