(04-21-2021 10:20 AM)EMUGLORYDAYSthe90s Wrote:  

(04-21-2021 09:26 AM)emu steve Wrote:  

(04-21-2021 07:52 AM)dansplaining Wrote:  

(04-21-2021 07:26 AM)emu steve Wrote:  

(04-21-2021 07:02 AM)dansplaining Wrote:  Stan Heath has been a successful head basketball coach for multiple programs. English was a career assistant who was in over his head. Totally different situations.

Agree, AND some people thought that English wasn't a great DC, but rather was beneficiary of coaching a lot to top drawer talent.

No one accuses MAC teams, Arkansas, So. Florida as being haven for top talent.

I'm a broken record on this - but i like coaches who have been head coaches already. I think it makes a world of difference having experience being the leader of an organization like that.

DP, I think most agree with you. HOWEVER, it is hard to get an experienced HC to come for what we pay. Are we going to ask a coach in the HL, MVC, etc to take a 33% pay to work for $320K.

Best hope has been to get lucky and find a very good candidate who is unemployed OR under-employed.

Heath is a very experienced HC but apparently had a reasonable salary at the G-League.

I truly believe Stan Heath did this not for the money! He made 7 figures at Arkansas and S Florida! E Michigan is where he played college basketball, he met his wife at E Michigan, he wants to restore the glory days! He literally talked constantly about having A packed house similar to Bowen Field House, all the greats from the 80's and early 90's by name! He said he did pay attention on how E Michigan basketball was doing, and he realizes how far this program has fallen! He's from Detroit, Michigan, and he's a Huron and now an Eagle! He said all of this over a 12 minute speech! His enthusiasm was phenomenal, but can he restore the program? I don't mean .500 in the MAC consistently, I mean 14-4, 15-3 MAC records that we were accustomed to for those 10 years! Football and basketball have never come close to those years from 87-92 in both, and basketball from 87-98! Eagle Sam, who I've the upmost respect for on his knowledge of basketball deserves to see A MAC championship! We went to FOUR consecutive MAC title games from 94-98! I sure hope Stan Heath can do it........

What you say is true, but I don't think G-League HCs are paid that well so the salary fit wasn't bad.

Never ask a rich coach (e.g., John B.) to work for a pittance, even if they don't need the money.

Boy, the City of Detroit should hire you to do PR. Remember when Detroit was the Paris of the Midwest. It was considered great. Now it is a city in great decay.

Things change over time. Never know the next great city or next city to go into decline.

I have no idea where we'll be in 3 - 5 years. I'm not a basketball prophet.

We'll never have huge crowds at the Convo. Folks will not drive 25 or 40 miles to see a game which is on the Internet.

As I have said many times, the Convo was built for a DIFFERENT ERA. There were ZERO games on the Internet. EMU might have gotten one or two home games on ESPN2.

Only way to see the game was hop in the car and drive.

Now, I see it all the time here in D.C. A friend says, "Why should I go and freeze my ***** off to see the Nationals (wind chills in the 30s) when I can watch it on television and turn it off if it isn't good."

The Wizards had 14K seats on sale for 7 home games (2,100 per game) MONDAY They still have sold out yet.