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Dane Fischer to be the next MBB Coach
It's been over 2 weeks since Mason played. How many coaches said "No way" in that time?

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RE: Dane Fischer to be the next MBB Coach
(04-02-2019 12:22 PM)TribeGoldenAgeofBasketball Wrote:  Has the tweet been removed


Jon Rothstein‏Verified account @JonRothstein

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Sources: William & Mary will hire George Mason's Dane Fischer as its next head basketball coach. Official announcement expected soon.



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(04-02-2019 12:16 PM)wmmii Wrote:  At this point it seems we should focus our energy on supporting whoever the new Coach will be when announced and trying to be positive.

In the 1960's we hired football coaches that were unknown at the time-Marv Levy and then Lou Holtz (no I am not comparing this hire to them) so give the team and Coaches an opportunity without having to live in the shadow of Shaver (who did deserve a chance for one more year).

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I’m sure 95% of us have the same gut reaction to this news. But Fischer is the guy, he had no hand in previous actions, and he just may have what we need (that none of us can articulate exactly right now). Let’s let it play out.

While not completely analogous, our reaction here reminds me of the sunk cost fallacy. It’s awful to think of Shaver as a sunk cost, but his departure is exactly that to us right now. That decision is made. It’s in the past. No one should be compared to him (though we all will make that comparison of course). And we should not have made the decision on our new head coach based on any comparison to strengths / weaknesses of Shaver. Once the decision was made, we got the best person we could get. Whether he’s good or not will play out in the next few months (short-term assessment based on players / staff staying vs going) and more importantly in the next few years (long-term assessment based on how much we win).


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fwiw, the most exciting thing about our football program now is a 20-something 31 year old "nobody" that was just recently coaching high school.

Interested to see this play out.

I don't think this is what she initially had in mind.
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I cannot wait to see how Huge paints this as a great hire for the College.
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I can't wait to hear people disparage whoever we hire because it isn't Tony.
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(04-02-2019 12:25 PM)wmmii Wrote:  
(04-02-2019 12:22 PM)TribeGoldenAgeofBasketball Wrote:  Has the tweet been removed


Jon Rothstein‏Verified account @JonRothstein

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Sources: William & Mary will hire George Mason's Dane Fischer as its next head basketball coach. Official announcement expected soon.



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David Teel confirmed:
https://mobile.twitter.com/DavidTeelatDP...8215215106
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Sheesh.
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(04-02-2019 12:35 PM)mrjoolius Wrote:  I can't wait to hear people disparage whoever we hire because it isn't Tony.
If Fischer is the hire, it's a blah move. I hope the first impression is the worst part and he gets us to the tournament, but this hire does not move the needle. It kicks the can down the road until the players' situations are sorted out.
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Here's hoping that Mr. Fischer hits the ground running and proves to be an outstanding coach for W&M men's basketball. It's our school, he's
our coach and I wish all the best to all involved. Time will only tell what the verdict will be.
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(04-02-2019 12:35 PM)TribeInTheBurg Wrote:  
(04-02-2019 12:25 PM)wmmii Wrote:  
(04-02-2019 12:22 PM)TribeGoldenAgeofBasketball Wrote:  Has the tweet been removed


Jon Rothstein‏Verified account @JonRothstein

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Sources: William & Mary will hire George Mason's Dane Fischer as its next head basketball coach. Official announcement expected soon.



8:53 AM - 2 Apr 2019
David Teel confirmed:
https://mobile.twitter.com/DavidTeelatDP...8215215106

Feeling annoyed that we have to find out about it through Twitter. Don't we deserve an email like the one we got about the Shaver firing?
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(04-02-2019 12:49 PM)88tribefan Wrote:  
(04-02-2019 12:35 PM)TribeInTheBurg Wrote:  
(04-02-2019 12:25 PM)wmmii Wrote:  
(04-02-2019 12:22 PM)TribeGoldenAgeofBasketball Wrote:  Has the tweet been removed


Jon Rothstein‏Verified account @JonRothstein

Follow Follow @JonRothstein

Sources: William & Mary will hire George Mason's Dane Fischer as its next head basketball coach. Official announcement expected soon.



8:53 AM - 2 Apr 2019
David Teel confirmed:
https://mobile.twitter.com/DavidTeelatDP...8215215106

Feeling annoyed that we have to find out about it through Twitter. Don't we deserve an email like the one we got about the Shaver firing?
The announcement is scheduled for 2:30. Everything thus far is projection.
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(04-02-2019 12:48 PM)LeadBolt Wrote:  Here's hoping that Mr. Fischer hits the ground running and proves to be an outstanding coach for W&M men's basketball. It's our school, he's
our coach and I wish all the best to all involved. Time will only tell what the verdict will be.

This is the credited response.

All the rest is crying over spilt milk. Let the W and L columns speak.
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(04-02-2019 12:24 PM)Tribal Wrote:  It's been over 2 weeks since Mason played. How many coaches said "No way" in that time?

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This doesn’t bother me Tribal, for 2 reasons:

1) If we weren’t rejected by anybody, we didn’t aim high enough. When Shaver was hired, did we even talk to a top assistant of a Final Four team?

2) Even P5 schools get rejected by coaches. That’s just how the coaching search process goes.


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Sorry guys. Rationalizing this one is just not going to work. Huge blew it. Big time. If she had managed to hire Jason Williford or a widely regarded assistant from a Power-5 program, this might all make sense. But it did not.

I said a few weeks ago that talented senior executives, particularly when in a new position, act conservatively when the costs of a radical change outweigh the benefits. Hubris rarely pans out. Huge is learning that lesson the hard way. She overplayed her hand and over-estimated her ability to personally persuade a talented candidate ... and now, meh...
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UVA is in Final 4 so Williford is a hot commodity. It was a smart business decision by him to say no to us. Williford can land a big time job and he will be paid X3 than $700K we may have offered him.
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(04-02-2019 01:24 PM)tribeintexas Wrote:  UVA is in Final 4 so Williford is a hot commodity. It was a smart business decision by him to say no to us. Williford can land a big time job and he will be paid X3 than $700K we may have offered him.

If we offered 700K to this guy from Mason plus Tony's buyout, i'll be expecting fund-raising calls from the Tribe Club from here to eternity.
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(04-02-2019 12:49 PM)88tribefan Wrote:  Feeling annoyed that we have to find out about it through Twitter. Don't we deserve an email like the one we got about the Shaver firing?

Don't be silly. The AD has already told Tribe Club members everything she was going to tell them. She told you that herself.
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If it's on the internet, it MUST be true...

https://tribeathletics.com/news/2019/4/2...coach.aspx
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Note to Tribe Club is out. Interesting that she said the search was guided by input from current players (among others). Gotta assume that was just thrown in there but if true that’s good.


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