Volleyball Coach Terminated!

[DECKS]

Wonder what happened besides a 4-61 record?

onnidan.com/index.php/newsroom/april-2011/748-nc-aat-makes-volleyball-coaching-change.html

[aggie75]

I think 4-61 is enough.

[Aggie One]

Yep, that just about sums it up.

[oleschoolaggie]

this really doesn't look good for our former ad. i really like wheels as a person, he's a good guy. but i got to call it the way that i see it.

under his watch, we re-signed eaves to a 3 year extension after having a horrendous 3 point shooting very underachieving season, he hired a football coach who looked promising in his first season only to go 1-10 in his second season and gets fired, the track incident happened on his watch (i'll leave it at that), and now the volleyball coach who he hired gets canned after going 4-61.

wow. say what ya want about martin and hilton, but no one can argue that we're seeing an awful lot of change in aggie athletics. let's just hope its change for the better. after all, it can't get much worse...

[DECKS]

Terminating her this far after the season has concluded would leave me to beleive there must have been other issues.
We also must do a better job of putting people in position to win. We've really just been setting folks up to fail and that has to stop.

[oleschoolaggie]

can't disagree with that. makes me wonder if the volleyball program is adequately funded. the last two coaches pretty much yielded the same results...

[aggiebred09]

Apr 11, 2011 9:18:03 GMT -5 oleschoolaggie said:

can't disagree with that. makes me wonder if the volleyball program is adequately funded. the last two coaches pretty much yielded the same results...

Good question. Volleyball has probably taken a back seat in the past few years. Especially considering expansions in Football and Basketball Budgets. I wonder how many scholarships we carry in that sport.

[DECKS]

If we're going by records then tennis coach, James Dunwoody will probably be next. Of course the man virtually has no chance at getting more than one or two wins a year considering he has no assistant coaches and almost everyone else in the conference is recruiting European and South American players. This is a perfect example of being set up to fail.

[DOOMS]

So is fielding 44.5 scholarship football players
So is having to recruit basketball players from your home state with your own money and hoping for reimbursement from the school.
So is feeding players 2 piece KFC meals after games
So is competing in a division where the average athletic budget dwarfs your own by more than a 2 to 1 ratio.
So is trying to recruit a d-1 baseball program by only recruiting in the state of NC.

So basically, if you coach here you should know what you're getting into in the first place.

[aggiebred09]

Apr 11, 2011 9:57:43 GMT -5 DOOMS said:

So is fielding 44.5 scholarship football players
So is having to recruit basketball players from your home state with your own money and hoping for reimbursement from the school.
So is feeding players 2 piece KFC meals after games
So is competing in a division where the average athletic budget dwarfs your own by more than a 2 to 1 ratio.
So is trying to recruit a d-1 baseball program by only recruiting in the state of NC.

So basically, if you coach here you should know what you're getting into in the first place.

When the odds are stacked up like that it really seems as if Pride is the only thing keeping us in the MEAC.

[DECKS]

Apr 11, 2011 10:15:06 GMT -5 aggiebred09 said:

Apr 11, 2011 9:57:43 GMT -5 DOOMS said:

So is fielding 44.5 scholarship football players
So is having to recruit basketball players from your home state with your own money and hoping for reimbursement from the school.
So is feeding players 2 piece KFC meals after games
So is competing in a division where the average athletic budget dwarfs your own by more than a 2 to 1 ratio.
So is trying to recruit a d-1 baseball program by only recruiting in the state of NC.

So basically, if you coach here you should know what you're getting into in the first place.

When the odds are stacked up like that it really seems as if Pride is the only thing keeping us in the MEAC.

I have no illusions about us being competitive on a national or even regional level. At this point all I want for us is to be competitive within the MEAC. There's no reason that can't happen.

[aggie2ru]

I'm gonna be very direct. Things REALLY started going down hill during the Renick regime. Renick fell into a position where he was blessed with a lot of capital funds as a direct result of state bonding. That is why we were able to take on new campus building projects. A lot of folks who did not really know what was going on thought everything was being done as a result of Renick. Athletically, our programs began to suffer because the vision did not meet reality. Does anyone remember our dalliance with D-1A football??? Riduculous!!!! Remember the horrible hirings of AD's (Re-Todd, etc.) and coaches (unceremoniously firing Bill Hayes and hiring duds in his place). As been said on here before the fault lies with past administrators and their fatal decisions. We have now become the graveyard and laughing stock of the MEAC in ALL sports, whether we want to admit it or not. Also, I like Wheels as a person he has always been good people but point blank he was incompetent. Hopefully, Martin and Hilton will continue to be aggressive and make the RIGHT decisions to get us back on our feet. (I realize the "fall out" from Renick has not been the only reason but check out our records in ALL sports since his regime).

[aggie2ru]

My bad rushing through this-- gotta take momma out to lunch or I might not get any dinner tonight. (They tell me an even swap ain't no swindle!!). I forgot to say the only program performing up to par is Women's BB and a little of Women's softball. I put a lot of blame on Renick (which I think was rightfully so) but it also has been going on so long that I think a lot of people have forgotten how it was when we got it RIGHT!!!

[4XLAGGIE]

Apr 11, 2011 8:18:31 GMT -5 oleschoolaggie said:

this really doesn't look good for our former ad. i really like wheels as a person, he's a good guy. but i got to call it the way that i see it.

under his watch, we re-signed eaves to a 3 year extension after having a horrendous 3 point shooting very underachieving season, he hired a football coach who looked promising in his first season only to go 1-10 in his second season and gets fired, the track incident happened on his watch (i'll leave it at that), and now the volleyball coach who he hired gets canned after going 4-61.

wow. say what ya want about martin and hilton, but no one can argue that we're seeing an awful lot of change in aggie athletics. let's just hope its change for the better. after all, it can't get much worse...

Check your PM

[ohsixrain]

Let's be fair here now....our school does not allow athletics to operate with its own autonomy. Thus, good ideas only become bottle-necked at the top. What kills me is, the top will come back and blame athletics for all of the shortcomings. I understand life's not fair, but hot dayum...what do you honestly expect? We can all sit and post on this site like it's Monday Morning Quarterback. That's why I have no beef with any coach in athletics, ESPECIALLY non-revenue making sports. You should see how they travel and what they eat. And we have the nerve to look down on St. Paul and Livingstone. I remember coach Eaves explaining to me when getting hired at A&T having to give back some of his salary because there was no more money for assistants. That was unheard of until this year at WSSU with their d-line coach. So, I think we have to keep it in perspective when we begin bashing coaches and don't even know the half of it. If a non-revenue making coach was to exceed his/her budget, just take one guess what would happen. And Fobbs came and blew his budget to hell.