Red

[PoppyHart]

I understand Red had a COY-like season last year, nearly winning 30 games,

But 14 of his 21 career losses have been by double digits.

 

[kcsu]

If Red actually has a $20M buyout everyone in the athletics département, to include the people selling hot dogs, should be fired.

Read the post again

 

[kingtidge]

Syracuse has done before what it’s about to do again. Attendance was dropping in football but had “settled in” at about 35K/game in GRob’s 2nd and 3rd year. Then the university decided to give him a fourth year, mostly due to $$$$$. Then that 2008 season, attendance was about 30K minus the Penn State game and the university was putting out sad articles about how fans not coming was hurting finances and was going to make it hard to recover. In other words, saving money by not firing a coach doesn’t save money (or nearly as much as expected) - instead of having an added expense in paying two coaches, you have less revenue.

I agree with you based on history - Red is going to get another year, but he’s incompetent and couldn’t lead a pack of hungry wolves to meat so I don’t care who he’s got on the roster - next year is going to be mediocre at best. Another trainwreck is possible. Fans are going to stay away in droves, and we’ll get articles and statements from the school talking about how badly that revenue is needed to support basketball - basically telling fans it’s their fault the team is awful. That didn’t play well in football; I think it will play even less well in basketball due to differences in the overall fan profiles.

On the plus side - Kent doesn’t seem like the type to tell fans to get a life, and JW is unlikely to describe Syracuse as a one horse town…so we might be able to avoid the PR clownshow we went through the last time.

Agreed on this however, consider this.

What if GERG was getting 10 -14k in attendance yesr 3?

Red can't continue pulling 5-7k turnstile attendance in our venue.

And if the prepaid season tix renewals crater as well, the school really has no choice.

Maybe a couple new buildings on Kent's want list get put on hiatus and they execute the buyout and new hire?

Maybe the money comes from somewhere else?

The current attendance trendline cannot continue into next year or the revenue loss will be substantial. We can't have home games at 18% capacity or worse for an entire season.

It's worse than the GERG situation.

 

[SU Mania]

I understand Red had a COY-like season last year, nearly winning 30 games,

But 14 of his 21 career losses have been by double digits.

Have I missed something? Is this sarcasm? Last year's record was 20-12, wasn't it?