With current rules in place, it is easier to turn a program around with a supportive administration - allowing you to dump players you don't want with no scholarship penalty - and transfer portal access. LSU doesn't care how you make the cake now but did when BL was there.
Is there not the guarantee of four year scholarships in the SEC? If so, then the coach doesn't have that leeway to dump players scholarships.
I think a big part of the success was using the Idaho hiring model and making sure they had a ginger on staff. Luck of the Gingish. Only interim head coach I know just now is big Stevie Volzwagon at LA Tech currently strutting his stuff.
Some interesting situations. La Tech and Troy interims not doing themselves any favors. Both hard places, but both have had past success. Pacific killing it. La Tech might have one maybe two wins left on the schedule. Two of the four wins so far coming against non Div I teams. Troy has gone 1-1-1 vs SWAC teams in what was a schedule set up to keep the departing coaches job. Pacific is 8-1! Who gets the job between the two, do they both get it?
When Louisiana Monroe made their hire last year there was lots of talk on this forum about how he was doing some underhanded stuff…nothing came of it or course. Now he is proving to be one of the best coaches right now - just beat Coastal Carolina 6-1 - For a program like ULM to beat Coastal that bad says a lot. Credit also to The Citadel coach who is also working miracles.
Insert beatadeadhorse.gif. Some people just like to keep crying. Even when they've been proven wrong.
Does Pacific just keep these two on permanently? Looks like things couldn't be better. Utah State seems to be great under their new coach too.
Proved you wrong, multiple times. Yet, you keep crying. Get over it. People can be successful without doing anything unethical.
Pacific should just keep doing what they're doing because it seems to be working. The only change I would make is to remove the word "interim"
I hate to be a Debbie downer but I looked at Pacific's schedule and of their 8 wins just 2 have come against winning teams. 7 of their 8 wins have come against teams with RPIs of 200 or lower. Combined records of all the teams they have faced so far are 26-57-11. I do see the last time they got to 8 wins was 2011 which they have matched already and obviously there is a good amount of the 2021 season left, so that's good for them. But before we award any Coach of the Year honors this needs a little perspective. I'll await until they start WCC play. They should be able to start off with beating a historically awful LMU team but getting results after that will be difficult. The wins may good for confidence now but doesn't help when they see the quality and speed of play they will contend with in the WCC. Could it be the new coaches simply inherited a very soft schedule and are doing OK with that?
Definitely get your point and totally agree on waiting to see what conference play holds. But definitely a good start beating what is in front of them. As for ULM Poncho can disagree with the guys ethics. The ULM coach has a poor reputation and is seen as a shady douche. If you disagree go to an ecnl event and listen to how his name has been brought up. I personally have no respect for his ethics, but I do agree that he has improved the results greatly regardless of how it is done.
Coastal lost to Richmond. Richmond just lost to George Washington - GW's first win of the season after eleven games. Just looked at ULM's schedule and yes they're winning, but are any of those teams even top 200 RPI?
It as Always been possible to drop a player from a program, continue the scholarship, and not have it count towards the scholarship limit a long as the player doesn’t play again. It is often the case of career ending injury and has been done in a couple cases I know of after a coaching change. Players are offered a continued scholarship with those conditions or help transferring.
I am aware of how career ending injuries and scholarships work. What I am saying is that players in the SEC cannot have their scholarships taken because the coach wants "to dump players [they] don't want with no scholarship penalty".
When a coach tells a kid they will never play at that school, majority of the time that kid leaves. If not then, then after the next semester when they get less and less reps at training to prove a point. The problem with kids chasing big name schools and not having a club coach honest enough to tell them they aren't good enough to be there.