re: Head Coach Search Thread

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What is also forgotten was Frank berating fans for not buying enough tickets. Is it the admins fault for not marketing it, absolutely. Some of the blame still lies on his shoulders.

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here's Frank whining about fans again after beating UMass in 2017.

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Following USC’s 76-70 victory over Massachusetts on Saturday inside Colonial Life Arena, the Gamecocks coach was anything but satisfied.

“The job me and my staff are doing right now is pathetic,” Martin said. “We regressed this week. We’re a worse basketball team today than we were eight days ago – and that’s my job to make sure that doesn’t happen.”

Carolina is now 6-2. Saturday’s game was its first in Columbia in 19 days. The Gamecocks were less than sharp in front of a barely half-full arena, something Martin also noted in his post-game observations.

“There must have been some kind of a golf tournament or an evaluation of seventh-round offensive linemen or something in town because obviously our fans decided that showing up here today wasn’t that important,” Martin said. “But I can’t worry about fans. I got to get my team right. We’re soft. We had a bad week. We have not played worth a crap this week. “And that’s my job, to get us to play the game the right way.”

The announced crowd was 10,382. That’s the fewest at CLA since 10,088 showed up last December for USC-Lander. Nonetheless, Carolina didn’t put on a great show. The Gamecocks made three of 15 3-point attempts and missed 12 of their 29 free throw attempts.

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Dawn is a marketing and brand genius. I remember thinking, those two went two totally different ways with marketing their product. Dawn was big on "fams" and challenges. fun ways to get people out and to care. She filled the venue. Frank pouted and fussed at fans pubicly. it just seemed to cast a cloud on the program. Their careers went different directions.

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