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Post by lmutex on Dec 26, 2007 16:18:29 GMT -5
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Post by ldawg on Dec 26, 2007 17:04:30 GMT -5
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Post by ldawg on Dec 26, 2007 17:21:26 GMT -5
OUCH! ESPN now covering that Sutton is going to USF... that is South Florida!  |
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Post by golions on Dec 26, 2007 18:30:45 GMT -5
This definitely didn't come as a surprise. Evans inherited the program and has disgraced it during his tenure.
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Post by lionspride on Dec 26, 2007 21:08:38 GMT -5
This does not spell well for our Lions and Coach Tention. With Sutton at the helm, USF has better probability to sweep us this year.
WHO is next to get the door in the WCC head coaching ranks?
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Post by lionboy on Dec 26, 2007 23:39:20 GMT -5
I am very excited to have Sutton join the WCC family. He is a great coach and is very well respected in the college game. I can't wait to see him in Gersten, and I know we are going to tear him apart for his few mistakes he made in his last year with Ok. St.
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Post by fanblade on Dec 27, 2007 0:46:43 GMT -5
Wow. Crazy turn of events this kwanzaa season! sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=3168981USF's AD does not seem to know how to handle these sort of situations. Amateur hour for her. Obviously JE was shoved out the door and she had been scouting a replacement for sometime. These pieces don't just fall together while sprinkling Christmas cookies. I wonder how long Sutton will stay at USF? He is not relocating his family. |
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Post by ironlions on Dec 27, 2007 1:44:37 GMT -5
What a crazy turn of events. I'm not sure I like it yet...
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Post by smc4 on Dec 27, 2007 3:19:24 GMT -5
Funny farm going on up there. Sutton will create some hype for the hapless dons for a few games but once he reaches 800 the news crews will leave and the Dons will be left with a geriatric short term solution waiting to get a cash retirement bonus. Sutton has never been to USF. Smells worse than that hyped up newscaster Rick Majerus was paid big $$$ to go to St. Louis. I remember that got all the press but then what happened. Not much.
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Post by shredaahead on Dec 27, 2007 4:03:06 GMT -5
Devastating news for Tention, I'm afraid. I want to see LMU's sophomores and juniors next season, but USF grabbing a hall of famer ups the WCC ante more than any of you seem to realize. Lowhorn,sp, might be the player of the year in this devision. Add a hall of fame coach to a program that any Boston/LMU fan is terrified of(Jonesisis and Mr. William Russell) I like OJ, Deidrichs, Deadwiler and Wright, and I'm rooting for Coach Rodney, but if he can't beat out the Pilots this year, he's a dead man walking. LMU has to show me that they're playing with the big boys, but the athletic department is still a complete and utter joke.
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Post by fanblade on Dec 27, 2007 5:02:38 GMT -5
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Post by lmu on Dec 27, 2007 17:23:35 GMT -5
This guy just wants his 800th career win, as soon as he gets that, he will lose all the motivation to coach and guess how the team will perform after that.
Coach T might be in the hot seat but it's due to the team performance not this sutton guy.
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Post by lionspride on Dec 28, 2007 0:19:21 GMT -5
I will admit to two things....1) LMU Lions basketball does not look good this year and another losing season is a reality, 2) I don't know what the right answer is to get the train back on the track, but something has to give if this continues....that something may be Rodney Tention or the President stepping in and firing Bill Husak.
#1 does not need any further explanation.
#2 does open debate. As we are not on the inside, I don't know how to diagnosis the bigger problem...is the AD not making things happen or allowing RT the room he needs or is RT just plain not recruiting/coaching sufficiently? This year's team is virtually ALL RT's except for JZ and Deric. You tell me if his recruiting ability is up to snuff. One thing that disappoints me is that we cannot win UCR or CSULB. These are schools that we should beat year in year out. It is obvious that recruiting may be our sore spot. RT did take his predecessor's talent and did nearly pull a WCC conference title two years ago. His coaching may be sufficient enough (but jury is still out). His recruiting seems lacking?
Husak has the benefit of having other sports finishing on the top of the conference standings for the past few years. BUT men's basketball is what is the main anchor of WCC program. It has been disappointing for a solid decade. SOMETHING is WRONG.
IF and ONLY IF this year's men's basketball performance keeps up, what is your conclusions.....RT or Husak or both or none? I realize it is extremely early, but what is the diagnosis out there? Any thoughts from the board would be interesting to see?
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Post by shredaahead on Dec 28, 2007 4:33:37 GMT -5
I hold no happy feelings about RT not making it through next season, and think that clearly Husak should lose his job, but that is just not how academia/semipro ball operates. Tention has shown me that he can coach, and while not being a dynamite recruiter, he at least seems like he has a plan. Coming from the east coast, I would never have heard of LMU and it's film program, had Gathers/Kimble not happened. Perhaps any of you business majors are familiar with the "Flutie Effect" LMU's professor's and faculty are great and not much different from Boston College's, but you need exposure. If you have no football program, you have to all out it on hoops like our Catholic brethren at Gonzaga and Georgetown.
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Post by lionspride on Dec 28, 2007 15:37:48 GMT -5
I hold no happy feelings about RT not making it through next season, and think that clearly Husak should lose his job, but that is just not how academia/semipro ball operates. Tention has shown me that he can coach, and while not being a dynamite recruiter, he at least seems like he has a plan. Coming from the east coast, I would never have heard of LMU and it's film program, had Gathers/Kimble not happened. Perhaps any of you business majors are familiar with the "Flutie Effect" LMU's professor's and faculty are great and not much different from Boston College's, but you need exposure. If you have no football program, you have to all out it on hoops like our Catholic brethren at Gonzaga and Georgetown. shredaahead: I agree with LMU needing to have men's basketball as the anchor to their sports program. There is no excuse for a decade of merely NOTHING. The President needs to step in. In his convocation address this year, he did say that sports was a priority. We will see. I don't know what the right answer is because I don't have enough information to diagnosis the problem. As is always the case, the easiest thing to do is to blame the coach. But this one may be on Husak. Who knows? |
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