Re: Looks like our fans are clamoring to fire the wrong coac
Posted: Sat Feb 08, 2020 11:18 pm
MustangJE wrote:East Coast Mustang wrote:Mays should probably go at the of the season, but Sam is trash. He doesn’t even try to hide his hatred of SMU with his “reporting.” If you cant see that, congratulations—you’re the idiot!
If you need to hear it from someone else, I can help you out with that. Every word in that article was true.
I'm not Sam Blum. I used to post on this forum under a couple of different names, ProfX and Balatro Diabolus Ex, I stopped posting for a little while in 2018,and when I tried to come back my login stopped working. Half the people on this board know me personally in real life, and they know I have followed the womens basketball program closely for more than 30 years. Every word in that article was true. I either witnessed it personally, or heard about it immediately afterward from the players and their parents.
I'm not saying this out of some kind of antipathy toward SMU. I'm an SMU alum, I played football for the Mustangs, after I graduated I was an adjunct professor in the chemistry department. Part of the reason I came to SMU is that my father went here. I grew up a Mustang. Every word in that article was true.
There's actually more. The article hits the highlights, but there's a fair bit of small, petty stuff that isn't mentioned.
Mays wont be fired this year, he has another year on his contract, and they are not about to pay to buyout his contract early.
Opinions vary within the current team on Mays, the original divide he created was between the players he recruited and the ones he didn't, but it didn't stay that way. Devri Owens was one of his recruits. So were Tiara Davenport, Marie Olsen, the Ellis sisters, and Morgan Smith, all of whom are gone now. Savannah Ellis put links to Klara Bradshaw's blog posts in her twitter feed, and expressed her support. I can tell you stories later, but time is short right now, and I have to get to the game. Tipoff at 2, but I meet some friends beforehand.
Before I go I'm going to mention that the teams on-court performance has declined progressively, every year their RPI and Strength of schedule has dropped lower. 11 wins last year may be better than 10 the year before. and we might win 12 this year, but thats partly due to softer scheduling. I believe the current RPI is 212.
Every word in the article was true. I hope that helps you.
Yeah, none of this changes my position. What Mays said and did wasn’t great, but if you reprinted the worst things every college coach says to his/her players you’d have headlines for years. It was bad, but it doesn’t rise to level of deserving an in-season, for cause firing that would expose the university to a wrongful termination lawsuit. Again, Rick Hart is not stupid and has spent a lot of time around the WBB program in response to what these girls alleged — I don’t think he’d eff this up to preserve the job of a guy whose record is mediocre. I predict Mays is terminated at the end of this season.
I just find it funny that people would run with the word of the Frolings, who complain about everything and think they’re all Michael Jordan clones, and Sam Blum who is obviously an insecure diva that is looking to make a name for himself by crapping all over SMU.