(12-18-2015 11:08 PM)fsquid Wrote: gotta give him his money first.
Yep, even after this season he gets 10.8 M over 4 years to not coach. Declining at about 2.65 M per year for each year beyond this one that we keep him as the coach.
If a change was going to be made the time to do it was after last season before the auto-extension kicked in.
The roster is a disaster. If you think we're struggling this season just wait until next year when Shaq, Burrell, and Tarrant are gone and we have to start and play 4 freshmen or sophomores. Whether the coach is Psstner or a new guy, the results will be about the same.
There were warning signs even at the end of the 31 win season and certainly after our first year in the AAC. Mistakes happen BUT the real issue here is that we're boxed in by his contract.
None (or very few) of us have any real appreciation of just how hard it is to run a successful major college athletics program. It's absolutely got to be like herding cats; however, there are people who have figured out how to assemble, the staff and the players into a system that works. Getting it done is one thing and then maintaining success over time is another. When the pieces aren't fitting together it probably becomes overwhelming.
Low major, mid-major, and high-major programs all have a different expectation level of what constitutes success. Memphis is pretty high up the food chain of basketball programs. We're not Duke, Kentucky, North Carolina, or Kansas but we probably slot in somewhere in the 2nd tier. It took the Kentucky job to pry X away from us.
If the top tier of programs are Feraris then we were at least a Cadillac. Pastner has turned us into a Ford station wagon. Good dependable transportation for sure and still better than most but not where we should be.......