When we make a hire, we are going to be facing a big

Posted on: January 10, 2017 at 08:45:52 CT

perception problem. The college basketball world sees us as having given up on men's basketball and views our current approach and our tolerance of the cratering of our program as a joke. The levels of apathy of our fanbase are astonishing, we have no recruiting pipeline at all, and the overwhelming losing has reached simply previously unthinkable levels.

We are going to have to significantly overpay to get candidates to listen, and have an understanding that this is a HUGE rebuild that will be a large and long undertaking. I've always been a steadfast proponent that Kim shouldn't be fired. The decision should be his, and he should have quit a long time ago.

But it is becoming readily apparent he will not do what is right for the program and cares more about collecting all the money. I'm starting to change my opinion. For MU to get serious candidates to consider this job opening, it might be a good tactic to fire him based on lack of merit midseason and make a very strong public stance that such levels of failure are not acceptable and MU still intends to field a real program under this new AD's leadership. That we do actually have expectations and can recognize and react to mistakes rather than just tread water living with them.

I'm not sure when the right time will be, likely when it is apparent that the team is mailing it in to the same degree as the staff, but at that point if Kim still refuses to do the right thing then I think I would be on board with him being fired. As long as it is handled properly and clearly stated he is being fired for incompetence and cratering a program, and that MU basketball has expectations and intends to compete nationally. I think such a chain of events would really help our coaching search and make our opening more viable.

Edited by FIJItiger at 08:46:52 on 01/10/17