DannyHoke

Zero wins. Bad recruiting class.

Not going to be competitive with ZERO scholarships playing in a scholarship league. This will be a D3 program.

Share how the culture is improving? Will the culture be better when the Zips are 0-12? How's that going to sell on the recruiting trail?

Bowden was kept around for too long. No big secret there. Larry Williams is a Lawyer who is not going to assume much risk, so he waited until the buyout was down and then made the move. I am at a loss when trying to identify anything that has improved since Williams has been in the AD chair. He has brought no one new in and the same people are running the key positions in Zips Athletics who have been there for the better part of the last 30 years. Obviously the most disappointing move to date was letting Keith Dambrot leave for Duquesne, but a close second has to be the Tom Arth hire. Arth has nothing in his past that leads you to believe that he is going to be able to build a MAC-level D-1 program as a head coach. His staff is made up mostly of D3 guys, like himself, who have never recruited D1 athletes. Recipe for disaster? Time will tell. Rob Ianello went 2-22 overall and 1-15 in the MAC and then AD Tom Wistricil pulled the plug after 2 years. The program was brought back by Terry Bowden, but his time too had come, and now, here we are. If Arth's season is a resounding 0-12, Larry Williams has got to be shown the door. William's basketball hire John Groce (31-34) has killed off any remaining momentum from the Keith Dambrot era. Zips Men's Soccer is 0-5 despite paying the coach the 4th highest salary in America. No way soccer ticket sales are justifying that expense. But at least we have strong Swimming/Diving and Track & Field teams.

What does everyone think about bringing baseball back? Does anyone plan on coming out to games?