I keep seeing this and it is my favorite out of all the contrived things to care about.
a losing conference record after nine years
Contrived. BS word by an apologist for failure.
It's a legitimate benchmark, considering the pillow-soft non-conference schedules Oscar regularly treats us to.
How many losing conference records did Snyder have once he'd been here for nine years? How many times did you think he should be fired for it?
3. And hot take here but the ‘88 football program Snyder took over was in much worse shape than the ‘11 basketball program oscar took over. Also after 9 years his teams were consistently improving. Chum I assume you’re being facetious and I’m just not picking up on it bc this is otherwise a monumentally stupid comparison
No, the idea that a coach shouldn't have a bad season after they've been around long enough to have things figured out is rough ridin' stupid.
i don't think anyone would be calling for his head after one bad season. but this has been 2 bad seasons. like, historically bad seasons. like how could this team have won the conference just 2 years ago? And on top of that, there is absolutely no reason to think its going to get any better next year. Barring it a miracle it will be 3 seasons of absolute dumpster fire trash and that is not hyperbole the team has been so gd bad the last 2 years. So just a quick recap for the folks at home:
2015: bad team, no postseason
2016: bad team, no postseason
2017: milquetoast team. ever so barely makes it to the play in game as an 11 seed (so like, quite literally one of the last 4 at large teams to get selected)
2018: yay umbc
2019: conf champs that's cool, but shitty luck we get stuck with the juggernauts of the west, UC Irvine. tough luck on that draw.
2020: atrocious
2021: i shouldn't have used the word atrocious to describe the 2020 team b/c its not leaving me much room to sink lower but here we are
2022: barring a miracle this team is going to be hovering right around the 2021 team.
So that's the resume over the last 7 years (the majority of his time as the coach). Yeah i mean, he's really been doing a great job, nothing wrong w/ that resume. i don't see where all the hate is coming from.
Also i'm no historian, but if memory serves snyder over a decade of almost continual marked improvement and sustained success, winning the conference championship in his 13th season and then 2 years after he won the conference...gone. idk, food for thought.