Staying Close to the Vest - Coach Groce-related News and Views

[clarkwgriswold]

It's a step up in salary and donors to feed the NIL pot.

[GP1]

41 minutes ago, Reslife4Life said:

The only things that make Charleston sound like a step up are a lack of football team, and the weather. If those are actually true I don't know how Akron would prevent this from happening again with another successful coach  

And the food. 

[kreed5120]

Providence offering Hodgson $1M more in NIL is why he took that job over Syracuse. Syracuse historically is a much better program than Providence but none of that matters because Providence is willing to pay players more now in the present, which is what is driving coaching decisions in this new age of college athletics.

 

If CoC is willing to 2x-2.5x Akron's NIL spend it is a step up. It's unfortunate it has come to this, but that's the price we're paying by trying to field both an FBS team (albeit also poorly funded) and a D1 basketball program. Our resources are going to be spread much thinner compared to a school the focuses primarily on basketball.

Edited 9 hours ago by kreed5120

[1981 grad]

1 hour ago, GP1 said:

And the food. 

And the attendance.  We average 2200 fans while Charleston averages 4900 fans. 

[mrelegazna]

4 hours ago, 1981 grad said:

And the attendance.  We average 2200 fans while Charleston averages 4900 fans. 

That's it? Gawd. I don't want to turn this thread into yet another intractable discussion about how to draw more fans, but after what we saw in Cleveland, there's got to be a way.  I don't know what it is, but someone's got to be able to crack the code.