(02-26-2019 05:29 PM)HyperDuke Wrote:  I was SO pissed when Kenny left for VT because I saw it the same as Dukester. COA stipend and a little pay bump seemed like all it would take to keep him. I tend to side with Dukester that we could have kept Kenny with a little COLA increase and the player stipend. But we’ll never know unless Kenny is willing to say it out loud. He definitely alluded to it in the news, but never actually said it outright because he’s a pro and probably didn’t want to burn bridges.

All that said, I do agree we were probably at the peak of what we were willing to offer him.

I do want to push back on the “CAA peers” POV. JMU WBB at that point had maybe one real peer in the league, as it relates to wins & attendance. Elon had not yet truly emerged & Delaware returned to being garbage after their savior EDD graduated. Drexel was probably our only conference WBB peer then (and only due to wins as DU’s WBB attendance blows despite their success). Not sure how to properly identify our true peers from that time period, but I don’t think our conference is an accurate way to identify them.

Agree, in some ways our WBB is to the CAA as Gonzaga is to the WCC. They're not really playing peers during the conference part of their schedule.