"whine less donate more" say's the "dude" who hasn't given a penny to the men's basketball team!

Dude, whatever you donate to the men's basketball team in the next 30 days (including $ to NIL), I will match!

Time to step up.

Unfortunately, I'm not surprised by any of this.
Vogel was the "convenient" hire after the school was once again humiliated and forced to fire Nero within a year of accepting his bs on the Lonergan debacle. She was not qualified then and the last 7 years have proven that. Why the 2nd in command to Nero while the athletic program was destroyed was then hired to continue it's demise made no sense to me and everyone else.
As GW fans and alums, this is what we have been dealing with for years. An inept administration and terrible decisions year after year.
CC better save his money and hope his 3 to 5 year tenure at GW doesn't sink his future. He's too young to retire.

I was one of those "pessimists" who used the term "decade" to describe the time it would take us to overcome this self inflicted wound from 2016. At the time, I was in shock by how GW could "F up" a program that was on such an upward projectory but hoping for 4-5 years instead of the decade I was projecting. 

8 years later, I believe that incident destroyed our program and any hope that we will ever recover. We cannot adapt to the changing D-1 Athletics and NCAA landscape after that incident. It's impacted recruiting, the school can't afford to compete in this landscape and the majority of the school administration, students, alums could care less about basketball. NIL is another issue but we are lacking in this area as well.

It may not be the America East, but I believe our future will be to de-emphasize athletics by moving to a conference like the Patriot League (in which I think we are best suited for instead of the NEC, MAAC, AE, etc.

If CC can't rise up this sunken ship next year, he could be gone after his 3rd year with no success like the 2 coaches before him. I have always said TV needs to go. Perhaps the school will make wholesale changes after blowing this thing up and starting over.

Just look at this board as an example of how low we have fallen. I used to enjoy reading posts after and before games 8+ years ago when we had hundreds of posts on a topic. Now we have only a handful of people who follow this board, less who actually post on a regular basis and one (Dude) who posts 20 times a day, often being the only one responding to his own posts.

I have loosely followed Siena since the Patsos days. I was a little surprised by their fans reaction to both Carm and the AD this year. They have clearly run out of patience up there. Despite having to pay off Carm's buyout, I applaud the school for listening to the fans and alums and pulling the trigger. From the sound of it, the AD will be "retiring" soon.

Incredible that almost 8 years to the day we had a core group of players at GW that spent 4 years together before not only graduating with a degree but winning the school's only post season championship in men's basketball history.
This group was complemented by another group of young talented men and the entire team went on to accomplish other great things and become people of great character.
Hopefully we can come close to accomplishing great things in the future in our lifetimes.
Buckle up for a long off season to stew in our misery. Year 3 of the CC era will be interesting. Will his fate be the same after year 3 as the previous 2 coaches?
 

Coach Dambrot is a feel good national story. Happy for the Duke's.

I'm in LA for work this week and Dambrot is getting almost as much attention here as the Shohei Ohtani story. Mainly because of his Lebron connection, who is "the man" out here.

Rising, get real. GW has historically had very little alumni support (in terms of $) in men's basketball (or in any GW sport).
Why should it surprise anybody that after what we have been through in the last 8 years big alumni donors will suddenly start donating the big bucks. NLI is no different.
Let's start getting more than a few hundred people to attend games before using our lack of NLI as an excuse. News Flash: we need to put a better product on the floor before people want to take the time and money to come see us play. This has been the case for years. It takes investment by the university to accomplish this and get a return on their investment (like Dayton and others).
Siena heard the message and bit the bullet with Carm (and the 2 years he had left on his contract) in fear of losing all their season ticket holders  (and their $). GW can't and won't do the same. Is it due to GW's financial situation right now? That's a topic up for debate.

GW's AD position is no different than any other A-10 or D-1 school. They make a very good salary and are evaluated on various criteria. The criteria is the same, the weight given to each criteria differs from school to school based on the leaderships intent and priorities, The evaluation may be different, but is not "easier" or "harder" at GW vs the other schools.

To add to Mayhems statement, GW better be careful regarding their support (or lack thereof) of athletics. I remember a time not too long ago when the A-10 Conference was prodding it's member schools to provide the appropriate resources to athletics in order to continue the overall upward momentum it was experiencing at the time. I remember on the old GWHoops board posters joking about kicking Fordham out for dragging the conference down. That kind of pressure has not been with us as a conference for the last several years as we have experienced a decline (partly due to conference re-alignment, NLI, etc).

Back to the AD job here at GW. If GW wants to remain in D-1 athletics and be competitive, they need to act like it. This includes holding our AD accountable and evaluating her using the same criteria as every other D-1 AD. Her poor record speaks for itself. Otherwise, lets move to the Patriot League and divert the resources elsewhere. Colgate is a good example of how a D-1 school can excel in all facets, including athletica and academics.

LFO, I agree with you 110%.
I just hope I live long enough to see GW Basketball "rise" again and be competitive in whatever league we may be in. I also miss the wisdom, opinions, humor and insider information of many of our old posters who stopped following/posting long ago for the same reasons previously stated.

Don't take the bait and spiral into a discussion about racism.
GW0509 made a very good point and then our resident expert had to chime in. If you go back to the ML era, we had several big men on our 15 man roster who led us to success (Larsen, Zeke to name a few).