The truth is the program has been in decline for the past eight years. The new AD decided it was time for a change and opted not to renew his contract.
Based on these results LBSU should threaten to fire the coach every year.
Bid-thieves should bump teams from their conference out of the tournament, not teams from other conferences.
It is becoming normal in conference tournaments for teams assured of qualifying to lose. This doesn’t cost them much, and actually benefits the conference the way that the profits of the tournament are divided-up. Remove the money incentive, and we’ll get more normal results (which will sometimes include lower-ranked teams winning their conference tournament).
Similar to Michigan in 1989 except that when Bill Frieder told Bo Schembechler right before the tournament that he was going to Arizona, Bo essentially said don’t let the door hit you in the tuchus and fired Frieder on the spot. Bo then elevated assistant coach Steve Fisher to interim head coach and Michigan ran off six straight victories on their way to winning the ‘89 championship by one over PJ Carlesimo’s Seton Hall squad 80-79.
I’m happy that the writer refers to the team as the 49ers (the school was founded in 1949). Recently, the student body voted to drop the name 49ers because it’s “racist” and voted to rename the team the Sharks, a name that doesn’t seem to have caught on.
The name change resulted in the school removing a huge statue of a nineteenth-century gold-seeker known as Prospector Pete, which must have cost tens of thousands of dollars. However, the campus newspaper remains the Daily 49er.
Their program is in decline because they DO NOT have the MONEY it takes to manipulate players into committing to play for Long Beach State.
College is fast-moving to a DOLLARS business-model much like the NBA. The intervention of LEGALIZED GAMBLING has also removed the purity of sports at the NCAA level.
You can already began to regularly use the phrase.. "Why I remember when _____________ was how it was."