GW73 wrote:

GWRising wrote:

squid wrote:

What do you suggest to fix this?
 

 Simple ... 5-point plan

1. Charter flights so student athletes can return to class quickly and miss less class.(like the rest of the A-10)
2. Academic standards commensurate with the rest of the A-10 (like we used to have)
3. More money for assistants (salaries are below market for other A-10 schools)
4. Practice Facility - start construction ASAP
5. Revamping of Sports Information - when was the last time you saw GW regularly covered in local media? Lack of exposure hurts the program significantly both in terms of attendance and visibility with recruits.

Now this won't be cheap. Charter flights are $35,000 or more a pop. The practice facility will be millions. You need proabaly another $250,000 annually for assistants. 

Sounds great. All for it. Although, let's not get carried away with your academic standards point. There is evidence that academic standards weren't all that high in recent years.
 

 What evidence that academic standards weren't all that high? Did somebody become ineligible?

There is a small group of fans who continue to step up donation wise. The baseball field has most of the names of people who contributed. The Colonial Club although the attendance dropped dramatically this year still has people who donate. I don’t think the current administration really cares about the fan base. The AD needs to make the right hire ASAP or we are looking at a John Kuester year. I’m pretty confident the hire will be a mediocre one.

2twooed wrote:

There is a small group of fans who continue to step up donation wise. The baseball field has most of the names of people who contributed. The Colonial Club although the attendance dropped dramatically this year still has people who donate. I don’t think the current administration really cares about the fan base. The AD needs to make the right hire ASAP or we are looking at a John Kuester year. I’m pretty confident the hire will be a mediocre one.

Who is the right hire?

Gwmayhem wrote:

GWRising, that's a well-thought out list.  My question, which is not a snarky one, is who should be paying for these items?  And, if it's a combination of the school dipping into an endowment or elsewhere, a capital/fundraising campaign, and/or increasing regular annual donations, to what extent should the school be footing the bill as opposed to alum and other possible donors?

 The University at-large has this money should they so desire to spend it.. That has never been an issue. We have plenty of money when we seem to want to have it - spending millions to buy out or settle with former coaches and administrators. But GW claims poverty when GW doesn't want to spend it - like the need to cut 7 sports.. And guess what? If you make these capital investments in the basketball program, the performance will improve, you will raise more donations and sell more tickets - might even get some NCAA money by participating in the tournament. GW either needs to make these investments or drop down to a league commensurate with what they are willing to spend.

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        [color=inherit]Samurai Hoops[/color][/url] [url=https://twitter.com/samurai_hoops]@samurai_hoops·22s While Caputo remains the favorite at Samurai Sportsbook…we’ve had some sharp money come in on Becker here at The Dojo

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The other name emerging at GW… John Becker Samurai sources in DC indicating to The Dojo we should be taking Becker “seriously” here… @GWcolonialhoops

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Yes, more than six days have passed since JC was let go. So by Vogel terms this is a very long search period. But clearly the University wants to get this right, and there is a good possibility that the Chosen Candidate is still busy with a team that is still playing (sigh, we all wish that was us). I really don´t see why we are getting our panties in a bunch over rumours on Twatter. An annoucement will be made by early April at the latest, as per Vogel´s own statements, so let´s see where events take us. Personally, I´d like to see a really outside-the-box pick with a young coach who can draw media attention (my choice for that is Lindsey Harding, but Twatter rumours do not seem to be giving me any reason to think I am within 100 miles of the real candidate).
Do we get what we want or not? That remains to be seen, but until then I hear cherry blossoms are in full bloom, the Beaujelais Nuveaux are about to hit the market and (at least where I am) the weather is nice. So go out and do something more productive with your time than speculate about things we have no knowledge of (dittoheads on the cable news channels do enough of that already).

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Free Quebec wrote:

2twooed wrote:

I would like to see Wojo, Williford, maybe Pegues. I’m not high on Caputo, the Delaware coach, or Danny Manning.

Personally I have no way to evaluate assistants. 

Can you elaborate on why you would like those three, but not Caputo (I don’t think you need to expand on why not Manning or Inglesby since they have established track records)?  And how you would feel about Becker?

Becker would be an excellent choice. Mason did not hire Caputo twice. I’d prefer someone who’s been a head before with some success. Back to Caputo I’d prefer a candidate that gets the job on his merits not his relationship to Diaz.

2twooed wrote:

Free Quebec wrote:

2twooed wrote:

I would like to see Wojo, Williford, maybe Pegues. I’m not high on Caputo, the Delaware coach, or Danny Manning.

Personally I have no way to evaluate assistants. 

Can you elaborate on why you would like those three, but not Caputo (I don’t think you need to expand on why not Manning or Inglesby since they have established track records)?  And how you would feel about Becker?

Becker would be an excellent choice. Mason did not hire Caputo twice. I’d prefer someone who’s been a head before with some success. Back to Caputo I’d prefer a candidate that gets the job on his merits not his relationship to Diaz.

Thanks.  Seems pretty clear that insiders (assuming there’s not just one using multiple names) feel like Diaz having a prior relationship disqualifies Caputo.  As I’ve said before, I really don’t care as long as he turns out to be the right guy.


I do think head coaching experience is nice, but it’s no guarantee at all of future success - as JC, Dave Paulsen, and many others can attest.  Lack of head coaching experience also can be fine (like Karl Hobbs and apparently Kyle Neptune at Fordham).   

Whoever it is I will back (though Danny Manning would be really hard to feel any hope, as would some others with uninspiring results like Inglesby.   We hire one of them and I’ll do my best to believe, but I will literally be expecting it to go bad from day 1).

Since his name is being mentioned, here is the UVA bio on Williford.

Free Quebec wrote:

2twooed wrote:

Free Quebec wrote:

Personally I have no way to evaluate assistants.

Can you elaborate on why you would like those three, but not Caputo (I don’t think you need to expand on why not Manning or Inglesby since they have established track records)? And how you would feel about Becker?

Becker would be an excellent choice. Mason did not hire Caputo twice. I’d prefer someone who’s been a head before with some success. Back to Caputo I’d prefer a candidate that gets the job on his merits not his relationship to Diaz.

Thanks. Seems pretty clear that insiders (assuming there’s not just one using multiple names) feel like Diaz having a prior relationship disqualifies Caputo. As I’ve said before, I really don’t care as long as he turns out to be the right guy.


I do think head coaching experience is nice, but it’s no guarantee at all of future success - as JC, Dave Paulsen, and many others can attest. Lack of head coaching experience also can be fine (like Karl Hobbs and apparently Kyle Neptune at Fordham).

Whoever it is I will back (though Danny Manning would be really hard to feel any hope, as would some others with uninspiring results like Inglesby. We hire one of them and I’ll do my best to believe, but I will literally be expecting it to go bad from day 1).

No, no, no. It's not the prior relationship that is of concern. It's the concern that the previous guy was likely undermined to enable the coaching position to become available so that the guy with the prior relationship could be hired.