(03-14-2019 09:34 AM)Seahawk Nation 08 Wrote:  If they wanted to let go of Shaver, it should have been delayed at the minimum. Paying someone $1.7M NOT to coach is by far the biggest financial commitment the school will have made to basketball in a very long time.

82 keeps talking about Shaver's failure to make the NCAA Tournament. The only reason W&M was ever even in a discussion to make the NCAA Tournament was because of Shaver. Now they're likely going to hire an outsider who has no idea how difficult it is to win there.

Good luck making a splashy hire: Who is going to pay the new coach substantially more than Shaver made AND pay the $1.7M buyout? It makes zero sense. Yes, the school itself has money from a sizable endowment. But why couldn't they have just spent that kind of money in the past to help the basketball program over the last 2 decades?

Shaver made this program competitive with very little funds. Imagine what he could have done with that $1.7M. He was the Mark Scalf of basketball coaches.

This post on the Tribe board sums it up nicely:

(03-14-2019 08:28 AM)wmmii Wrote:  So Huge can find 1.7M to buyout Shaver but could not find enough funds to pay for the team to attend summer school for each semester? Shaver and his staff worked with a shoestring budget and we now will magically find $1,700,000 to fund his buyout. Hope the Tribe Club makes sure no private funds are used to fund this as i know my contributions were never intended for this purpose.

I'm not talking about anything, i'm quoting their AD. Take a minute and read the W&M threads from when she was hired. Then, take a minute and look at HER statement as to why it was time to move on. SHE specifically mentioned the lack of an NCAA tournament spot...ever.

Furthermore, I stated I don't have a strong opinion one way or the other. I can see both sides of the argument. But, the kicker for it all is that the AD cannot and did not make this decision, the school President did. Their "trustees" did. The AD may have a vision and may have recommended this happen, but this diid not happen without the full support of the administration.