I wouldn't want WT to fade from sight on here, so I thought I'd get this started.
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Next Man Up. Who"ll Be The New WT HC?
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No doubt there will be a lot of coaches interested due to the great facilities and fan support. However, getting a good coach hired might prove difficult especially when he learns about Wendler and his desire to cut 90+ scholarships across WT athletics. Also the new coach will probably be expected to continue with a high graduation rate, gpa and player discipline off the field. When Hughes was hired, he was told to clean up the mess that Carthel/Nesbitt left in those areas. He did that and still got axed.
If the new coach can handle all that, this is the ideal job.
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Originally posted by BuffAlum99 View PostIf I was McBroom, I would be making the call to Adam Dorrel over at Central Oklahoma. Has a career 82-13 record in D2 with 3 national championships
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Originally posted by oldbuff View PostNo doubt there will be a lot of coaches interested due to the great facilities and fan support. However, getting a good coach hired might prove difficult especially when he learns about Wendler and his desire to cut 90+ scholarships across WT athletics. Also the new coach will probably be expected to continue with a high graduation rate, gpa and player discipline off the field. When Hughes was hired, he was told to clean up the mess that Carthel/Nesbitt left in those areas. He did that and still got axed.
If the new coach can handle all that, this is the ideal job.
However, 90+? Don't think so. If WT fully-funded all their sports, that would be @132 scholarships. A 25% across the board cut, for example, would still leave 100 scholarship. The question becomes where those scholarship $ are spent. Do you cut across the board? Do you protect your MAJOR sports? Those are decisions the AD must recommend and implement.
If WT must reduce scholarships to 100 here's what I would do:
Football: 36
Men's BB: 10
Women's BB: 10
VB: 8
SB: 7
Wom Soccer: 9
Wom T&F: 12
Wom Golf: 4
Men Soc: 0
Men's Golf: 0
Baseball: 4
That's how I'd do it and comply with Title 9. Protect our top revenue sports-the 5 at the top of the list.
Hopefully, no budget woes exist and our AD won't have to make those decisions. Hopefully, unfolded rumors are untrue.
This opens things up to a larger discussion: is it time for new leadership and a new direction? Will new leadership have the vision necessary to marshal the support for WT to make the next step.......FCS D1.
I know that sounds strange. It would follow, if you can't support D2 how can you support D1? Personally, I believe D2 is dying. Do we Continue to play the WNMU's (yes I know we lost) and (future) Sul Rosses or the ACU's and SFA's? You have to ask the right questions. Where will WT be in 20 years? Where does it need to be? Ask those same questions about athletics. I see it as D1 or D3. Those questions and that decision should have been made 5 years ago. I don't see D2 as viable. Do we go D1 or do we become D3 and play MHB, Hardin-Simmons, Howard Payne, Trinity, Austin College, Southwestern (Georgetown), et al?
ACU, Incarnate Word, Tarleton, Commerce made the decision and haven't looked back. Will WT? The ground beneath WT's feet is shifting. For ASU, too. We all better take head.Last edited by BuffaloChip; 11-22-2022, 05:38 PM.
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