Fire Autry

[Briancuse]

At this rate I feel like he will be back next year.

Lmao, how?

 

[NineOneSeven]

Fire Wildhack. The fish rots from the head.

Basketball and Football are a hot mess.

Reminds me of your thread from Nov 2024

Thread 'Wildhack is on the Clock'

Nov 12, 2024

Syracuse should not be an OJT job.

Cut your losses.

This is football circa 2000.

Most of us will be dead before this team is good again.

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[FloridaCuse]

Isn’t it pretty well known who it is?

I don't know. It's been mentioned on here which is how I learned. I've asked some contacts I have in Syracuse and they said it's possible but aren't sure.

 

[PhatOrange]

Dusty and Danny are going to talk about Syracuse hoops right now after their commercial break

 

[PhatOrange]

Lol they're talking about Syracuse's locker room at UNC and all the different gum flavor and brand options they had. Like 10 different ones. lol. That's how bad Syracuse basketball is, that's the conversation.

 

[jgeorge322]

When ADJW made the difficult choice to force JB to finally step down, the hard part was in the rear view mirror. Unfortunately, he and certain members of the BoT absolutely BLEW IT by hiring an undequalified candidate in Autry at a time when the program was in a precarious position after a near-decade of decline under Boeheim.

People will say that JW had "no choice," or that Boeheim would have thrown a tantrum if we'd gone outside of the program. I say, so what? He would have had a tantrum, and then it would have been over, they would have given him the same job he has, and the band aid would have been ripped off.

Instead, the program has declined even further, we have the worst coach of any P4 school, and fan apathy is at an all time high. It is an expensive lesson -- the path of least resistance might be "easiest," but when you hire someone unqualified in a performance-driven role, failure is the most likely outcome.

This whole thing was botched from the start. You don't artificially constrain the candidate pool. You don't hire an inexperienced "captain" when the ship is floudering. And you don't install someone with no proven track record, and make a continuity hire, when performance is already poor.

Red is one of our own. He's a very nice guy. He is a very good assistant coach. But hopefully this is an object lesson of what NOT to do when it comes to making hires.

Jim threw a a tantrum anyway if you recall the press conference.

 

[RedtheGOB]

I don't know. It's been mentioned on here which is how I learned. I've asked some contacts I have in Syracuse and they said it's possible but aren't sure.

Legend has it that the future chancellor is trolling these same fanboards right now.

 

[dollarbill44]

Ok. But GMac has never really impressed me as a coach at all. I appreciate his legendary playing career, but he’s full of himself, as others say. And he was a very poor recruiter and a lot of his guys were busts. Red too. Hop is the only assistant with the personality to be a successful head coach but he failed to put it together at Washington.

Plus, how many good coaches were actually really good players?
I think i want a coach who isn't best known for his playing days.

 

[Dcuse]

Yes, and they couldn't hire Gerry over Autry when Autry had seniority and is a person of color without facing a shitstorm of bad publicity for passing over the Associate Head Coach to hire somebody with noticeably less experience.

I honestly think it would have been bad pub if they had hired anybody but Autry. I really think Wildhack's hands were tied.

 

[Blanko97]

I trust the opinions of former players and coaches over any of the rest of us. They know more and have better access to the facts than we do.

Well Gillon didn't play under red as HC so his opinion on reds coaching is moot

 

[Newhouser]

The takes from some of these former players make us board denizens seem a whole lot smarter.

 

[Newhouser]

If the new Chancellor is someone currently on campus he may have the ultimate say. In fact he may have been at the game last Saturday, sitting next to JB.

Hopefully not getting input on the replacement.

 

[Briancuse]

Lol they're talking about Syracuse's locker room at UNC and all the different gum flavor and brand options they had. Like 10 different ones. lol. That's how bad Syracuse basketball is, that's the conversation.

As long as they have big league chew were good.

 

[Blanko97]

I honestly think it would have been bad pub if they had hired anybody but Autry. I really think Wildhack's hands were tied.

What’s bad pub was the obvious irrelevancy that comes with picking a continuation hire from a failing staff

 

[Dcuse]

What’s bad pub was the obvious irrelevancy that comes with picking a continuation hire from a failing staff

How easy to say now. This board itself was very supportive of the Autry hire. Congrats on you 20/20 hindsight.

 

[orangepassion]

The takes from some of these former players make us board denizens seem a whole lot smarter.

Gillon's take seems to be an outlier among the ex-players. The only other supportive ones I've seen are don't boo him or fire midyear.

 

[DoctahLexus]

John Gillon is the freaking man. Disagree here obviously. But will always like John. Guys with cuse twitter burner accounts chirping him should be fired into the sun.

 

[FloridaCuse]

Legend has it that the future chancellor is trolling these same fanboards right now.

If true, good for him. Smart move (maybe with small grain of salt).

 

[RF2044]

I honestly think it would have been bad pub if they had hired anybody but Autry. I really think Wildhack's hands were tied.

Path of least resistance.

They weren't "tied," it was a choice.

 

[Bill Orange]

Lol they're talking about Syracuse's locker room at UNC and all the different gum flavor and brand options they had. Like 10 different ones. lol. That's how bad Syracuse basketball is, that's the conversation.

Per my credible source, at home games there are +/- 14 different flavors of gum on the end of the scorer's table next to our bench.

Long gone are the days of Bob Gilbert passing out sticks of Juicy Fruit before/during the game.

 

[IthacaMatt]

I honestly think it would have been bad pub if they had hired anybody but Autry. I really think Wildhack's hands were tied.

His only other choice was to go outside, and he didn't do that, because he didn't want even more blowback from Boeheim. So here we are.

 

[Briancuse]

Legend has it that the future chancellor is trolling these same fanboards right now.

How did you guys know it was me?

 

[phil77]

How easy to say now. This board itself was very supportive of the Autry hire. Congrats on you 20/20 hindsight.

There was a good number of us who were strongly for a national search over hiring Aurty.

 

[CU44SE]

I trust the opinions of former players and coaches over any of the rest of us. They know more and have better access to the facts than we do.

So because someone had the athletic ability and more talent than someone else, that automatically makes them more qualified at assessing basketball IQ and smarts?

 

[Cusefan0307]

I trust the opinions of former players and coaches over any of the rest of us. They know more and have better access to the facts than we do.

Michael Jordan ran one of the worst organizations of all time. John Elway couldn’t find a QB.