UL Keeps Rogers For Uncertain Future

[SlappyCajun]

_ So since baseball draws only 2000 we shouldn't care? Or softball? I call BS. If we are going to field a
sport we owe it to ourselves, our fans and our athletes to provide them with all the resources necessary to compete at least at the conference championship level, even sports like golf or tennis which don't have any fans. If you feel differently, IMO you are part of the problem.

igeaux.mobi _

If his contract was up his services should not have been retained. However, I do not believe that we should buy out a coach in womens basketball outside special circumstances.

[sportsfanatic21]

I agree 100%!!!

So since baseball draws only 2000 we shouldn't care? Or softball? I call BS. If we are going to field a
sport we owe it to ourselves, our fans and our athletes to provide them with all the resources necessary to compete at least at the conference championship level, even sports like golf or tennis which don't have any fans. If you feel differently, IMO you are part of the problem.

igeaux.mobi

igeaux.mobi

[Rebel02]

_ So since baseball draws only 2000 we shouldn't care? Or softball? I call BS. If we are going to field a
sport we owe it to ourselves, our fans and our athletes to provide them with all the resources necessary to compete at least at the conference championship level, even sports like golf or tennis which don't have any fans. If you feel differently, IMO you are part of the problem.

igeaux.mobi _

They have consistently drawn that many fans, even in some "down" years. And add it to, some of the highest attendance in the country for baseball.

Women's basketball on other hand has had horrible attendance, even in the very few winning season they have had. Fact is, women's basketball is not a sport that fans of UL show interest in.....except when its time to fire a coach. They only care then.

[Boomer]

_ I agree 100%!!!






igeaux.mobi _

OK So why was he retained???? He is a great recruiter----He is a great coach---He draws the fans----He has a great record----He has a sure championship team coming back----He wasn't given a chance----He was promised a palace to play in when hired----We ALL know that the answer to all these questions are---NO---This forum is open to reasons he could possibly be kept!!!! Anybody up for it????

[Rebel02]

_ OK So why was he retained???? He is a great recruiter----He is a great coach---He draws the fans----He has a great record----He has a sure championship team coming back----He wasn't given a chance----He was promised a palace to play in when hired----We ALL know that the answer to all these questions are---NO---This forum is open to reasons he could possibly be kept!!!! Anybody up for it???? _

It costs too much money to buy him out AND hire a new coach in a sport that really doesn't bring in much revenue???

[Boomer]

_ It costs too much money to buy him out AND hire a new coach in a sport that really doesn't bring in much revenue??? _

I was under the impression that his contract was up and there is no buy-out---only a renewal of a contract for one year!!!!

[Cajunsmike]

_ If his contract was up his services should not have been retained. However, I do not believe that we should buy out a coach in womens basketball outside special circumstances. _

I believe his contract was up so it would not have cost anything to let him go. I wonder what the requirements are to keep his job after next season. I hope it is at least a winning season and I would be shocked if that occurred.

[Parrott]

I was under the impression that his contract was up and there is no buy-out---only a renewal of a contract for one year!!!!

His deal was up after this season. No buyout.

[sportsfanatic21]

I was agreeing that we need to give ALL scholly sports a chance to succeed. If their attendance isn't good, even in good years, should those athletes be ignored? I say "Hell no!". Coach Rogers has proven he can't do the job, and the university needs to hire someone who can. And if money is too much of a deterrent, give someone who won't cost as much a chance. Again, status quo is/has been unacceptable.

OK So why was he retained???? He is a great recruiter----He is a great coach---He draws the fans----He has a great record----He has a sure championship team coming back----He wasn't given a chance----He was promised a palace to play in when hired----We ALL know that the answer to all these questions are---NO---This forum is open to reasons he could possibly be kept!!!! Anybody up for it????

igeaux.mobi

[Turbine]

_ It costs too much money to buy him out AND hire a new coach in a sport that really doesn't bring in much revenue??? _

UL would save money with an interim coach, and who knows you just might strike lightning in a bottle.

With Rogers you just want to hit the bottle.

[cajun4life]

_ It costs too much money to buy him out AND hire a new coach in a sport that really doesn't bring in much revenue??? _

His contract was up! WBB IS the third most popular sport in the NCAA. There is not another sport that is even close on a national scale.

J Kelly Hall had no fan support, because WE HAVE NEVER WON PRIOR TO HIM. How can you have fan support when the program never in its history had won? Under Hall the WBB program did something that was unthinkable, an at large bid to the Big Dance. Had we continued to win you could bet your ass that WBB would have drawn around 2K for home games.

Keeping Rogers is a very poor move by this AD.

[Turbine]

Keeping Rogers is a very poor move by this AD. _

It's worse than going the interim route.

jmo