You look around the B12 and you see AD's with a plan and commitment to their basketball programs/coaches.
Hell, if Tech is will to pay the next coach close to what they were paying Beard, they could make a really damn good hire and still be in a good place as well.
Then we have Gene/oscar (Maybe TCU is a somewhat similar situation??)
Every time I hear Gene talk, he seems more and more losery to me.
A couple things.
Tech isn't going to pay anything close to what they paid Beard, they will end up paying someone similar to what Otzelberger is making. Kirby sounded like such an unconfident loser who is so mad his cheerleader girlfriend left him for the star quarterback.
I do think that oscar should have been fired, I was the one saying that COVID was a bullshit excuse and seemingly very few people wanted to hear it. I'm not happy that oscar is staying and I'm not overly excited about the two transfers. The 5'7" kid is absolutely going to be a huge defensive liability. I'm already having nightmares of he and Bradford defending pick and rolls.
That being said I really don't think that Gene is any different than most other ADs in the country. You guys constantly criticize him for mailing it in or some other crap, forgetting me forced Snyder out when no one in the country expected that to happen and I doubt very few would have. Outside of Joe C. at OU, who has done anything worth turning flips over? Hell, even he, does Porter Moser really keep you up at night? Doesn't me.