Fire Maggard?

[CajunVic]

That group of 3 letters that used, A N D, is a common English word that signifies an addition to the sentence. Conjunction, in more traditional terms.

. . . you blew it and you know it . . . quit parsing words in an attempt to rectify the boneheaded position you took at the time . . .

[JamesTheJeweler]

Even if I agreed with you, which I don't, we have to spend about what we are spending because of Title IX. I am only saying that we should demand actual good performance for our money.

I'll agree with that.

[Turbine]

. . . so your boss for the last four years of your career is no longer a valid or relevant reference in determining the next step in the rest of your career . . . ok, I got it now . . .

A former fellow employee at the time of the supposed resignation/recommendation.

Not a valid reason to frog jump all other considerations.

[babysitter]

Here’s my Keep/Fire list of our main 5 sports teams.

Fire:
Desormeaux- with our current 2024 schedule I don’t see us winning more than 4 games (Grambling, Kennesaw, USM, ULM). If he goes 4-8 he needs the axe.

IDK:
Brodhead(?)- I don’t pay attention much to women’s basketball.

Keep:
Marlin- he led us to a Sun Belt Championship tournament and regular-season championship. We were three points away from advancing to R32. Slow start this far in the season but in a top-heavy SBC, we should right the ship.

Deggs- it’s hard to fill the shoes of such an iconic and great college baseball coach. But two tourney appearances with an SBC championship and runnerup in 3 full seasons is a good start.

Glasco- duh.

So you keeping Marlin. You are now President and CEO of the Mediocrity Club. Wow. Just WOW.

[ZoomZoom]

Turbine, while this is generally correct, the program was only 5 years away from back to back regular season championships and an At Large bid to the NCAA Tourney in a conference vastly superior to today's SBC. Brodhead has one regular season title and no tournament title in 12 years

Pointed this out awhile back, got a lot of blowback like look what he started with, injuries, family health, one of us, etc. Maybe times have changed.

Since the twins bailed on the recruiting class a few years back, it seems injuries have been a constant. And, my personal observation, the kid from Merryville, something wasn’t right. Going win POY in the conference at Samford speaks to this

I like CGB. He put in time growing career wise before coming home. He took on a crappy program. The problem is nobody really cares except parents and a few true fans I have sat with before. They love the game, know the kids, and are there every game.

But at the end of the day, still one at large NCAA bid with a world class player and that’s been it in over half a century. With a salary of 208k plus perks (not sure of any RCAF $), where does the program go?

[ManAboutTown]

. . . you blew it and you know it . . . quit parsing words in an attempt to rectify the boneheaded position you took at the time . . .

Zero parsing is going on here. I stand by what I say, unlike you, who can't even keep an honest RP screen name. My position was correct then and it remains to be seen what happens about Omaha. I still don't like the way he manages the game, but if we can pitch, we can get back to the promised land.

Your narrative on this has been blown to smithereens, just like majority of other positions you take. If you'd put down the TSAB games when you're at the Tigue, maybe you could see what the rest of us see.

[old alum]

Unpopular thing to say, but no one really cares about women's basketball.

Not true... I go to 70% of the games and there is small but consistent group of supporters there. The crowd is not bad with the regulars and people who show up from time to time.

I will say that they are nowhere near as good as Softball, but the ladies on our basketball team play really hard from buzzer to buzzer.

and while I am mentioning women's sports I will say that Kristi Gray (coach of the Volleyball team) is very impressive. The team went from 15-13 last year to 19-13 this year. She came from Odessa College and her team there was a national power among junior colleges. Maybe we need to look at Football Coaches in the Junior College power teams.

[old alum]

So you keeping Marlin. You are now President and CEO of the Mediocrity Club. Wow. Just WOW.

Bob Marlin is 247-175 (.585) at UL. Take away all the cupcake teams we play and our record pretty much stinks.

[old alum]

TWO YEARS AGO TODAY WE WERE CELEBRATING FOOTBALLS 13TH WIN IN A ROW. Since that time it took us two years to get 12 wins, and we have a 12-14 overall record. The Michael Desormeaux experiment needs to come to an end NOW.

Sorry for the all-caps. I was yelling out of frustration. I am one who likes Brian Maggard, but hiring Desormeaux was a mistake.

[zeppelincajun]

Bob Marlin is 247-175 (.585) at UL. Take away all the cupcake teams we play and our record pretty much stinks.

Bob Marlin has a 75% winning percentage at UL. Just ask our AD.

[Airden]

Who should go first? Personally I don't care about the order. I would fire everyone on this list prior to firing Brian Maggard. Everyone on the football and basketball list need to go, and I actually think that, given complete control over the future hires, Brian Maggard would get us good coaches for football and basketball.

Brian Maggard

Bob Marlin
Derrick Zimmerman
Casey Perrin
Neil Hardin
Phillip Shumpert

Michael Desormeaux
LaMar Morgan
Tim Leger
Jorge Munoz
Matt Bergeron
Jeff Burris
Mike Giuliani
Jeff Norrid
Bryant Ross
Galen Scott
Dennis Thomas
Luke Paschall
___________ (fill in the blank)

What about Troy Wingerter? Is he part of the problem too?

[Airden]

To me this was Maggard's biggest strikeout, openly stating that the hire was based on an OUTGOING coaches recommendation.

Lets all remember that Des is one of the only assistants Napier chose to leave behind when going to Florida. If Des is/was that good, wouldn't Napier had kept him? That says something too.