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The school serious?? Serious?? Try the freakin fan base that never showed up while we were ranked for 2 years. Fans equals money and it takes money to play. We can’t afford to pay 3 mill a year for a coach if only 10,000 people want to watch it. This area proved they aren’t Cajun fans. Can we go back and blame the school for years of bad marketing and running the fan base off?? Absolutely. But that bed is made. Maggard basically paid for the cart(Napier) and the horse (fan base) never showed up to pull it.
Lets not deflect from Maggard's accountability. He's made one good hire since he's been here. Baseball and softball have declined since his arrival. Did Martin Hall tell him to hire Billy Napier? Maggard has to own this. It's still early for Des, but so far the results are disappointing.
Glasco has been here for 6 years and achieved one Super Regional appearance. In the previous six year span under Coach Lotief, we made 5 Super Regional appearances. Coach Lotief took the Cajuns to three Women’s College World Series (2003, 2008 & 2014), seven NCAA Super Regionals and 15 NCAA regionals. How can you say that we have not declined? The proof is in the record. And for the record, Mike Lotief won his defamation lawsuit against the university. Read the report. Every one of his players supported him with written statements and did not witness any of the accusations leveled against him.
People may not like it, but you're not wrong. The attendance during the Napier years was embarrassingly low for the quality product he put on the field. The fanbase cant complain about the admin cutting corners when the fanbase cut corners. I promise you that if we had the number of fans like we had during hud while Napier was coach, we'd be talking about another elite level coach here. Thats how cold hard facts work.
That said, Des isnt dead yet, but he had better figure this ____ out. He knows as well as we all do, he's got one shot at this, and if he screws up, there's no other job just chomping at the bit to take a cajun reject, See literally every other coach we had in the history of our program.
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