Between MBB and Football I truly think this school should focus on MBB. The in state competition is good but nothing special. You have a great recruiter and Pett looks like he can coach too, and is just getting started.
If you build an arena and put resources here you can retain him and make this a legit basketball school. The admin should take a hard look at what they already have in place and allocate resources accordingly. Football is in SEC country and will ALWAYS have an uphill battle IMO.
We'll find out a lot more about where the admin sees the football side of it based on what direction they go with the HC hire. That kinda seems like the indirect plan, though. Spend as little as possible on football while the rev sharing landscape settles. If you made me choose one or the other I'd take basketball, but guess we'll need some level of football respectability
Between MBB and Football I truly think this school should focus on MBB. The in state competition is good but nothing special. You have a great recruiter and Pett looks like he can coach too, and is just getting started.
If you build an arena and put resources here you can retain him and make this a legit basketball school. The admin should take a hard look at what they already have in place and allocate resources accordingly. Football is in SEC country and will ALWAYS have an uphill battle IMO.
We'll find out a lot more about where the admin sees the football side of it based on what direction they go with the HC hire. That kinda seems like the indirect plan, though. Spend as little as possible on football while the rev sharing landscape settles. If you made me choose one or the other I'd take basketball, but guess we'll need some level of football respectability