Should Mark Fox get one more year?

Fox has improved the program a bit from the previous coaching staff. Relevant, no. The UGA basketball program is not relevant.

The fact that there is not an outcry to dump Fox, shows what low priority the administration and fans place on basketball. Georgia gets an equal share of the SEC BB revenue, regardless of how they perform, so there is no business incentive to pay what it takes to get a top level coach.

Yante's injury will give him an excuse for another year.

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Should Mark Fox get one more year?

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Yes, until there is a stronger commitment by our admins and alumni to build a nationally competitive basketball program. Like all sports, we need coaches who can recruit the wealth of talent in the state of Georgia. Fox is not the answer but we might as well keep him until we are willing to pony up what it takes to attract a top 10 coaching staff.

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Fox is not the answer but we might as well keep him

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Where do I sign up

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Lots and Lots and Lots of donations!

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Fox should get several more years if the administration has no plans on investing in creating a highly competitive basketball program

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Agree with this

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First off, I absolutely understand this mindset and where you're coming from. I totally get the reasoning behind why someone would think like this. But I don't see how people could think this is our best course of action.

Let's assume mcgarity is here for 10 years and basketball will continue to get the same treatment it always has. It doesn't make a lick of sense to keep fox around "just because" when we KNOW that he isn't going to win us anything of substance. If we make a change 1 of 3 things will happen.

1) We will get worse. Now, considering our baseline right now is making or hosting in the NIT, when I say "get worse" the bottom line of "not making the tourney" is still the same. So let's say we go from making and potentially hosting in the NIT to an unfavorable NIT draw or not even making it at all.

2) We stay about the same. Usually a good bet for the NIT and might slip into the tourney once every 5 or 6 years on the final week and lose in the first round. This is about par for the course now.

3) We improve. We make the tourney once every 4/5 seasons and maybe even win a game while there.


Only 1 of these is truly "bad", and it's really no worse than what we already are considering the goal should be to make the tourney. The 2nd option is basically keeping the status quo, and the 3rd is obviously ideal. My whole point is that there are no variables with fox, we know exacty who he is, how he recruits, how he coaches, how he subs, what his personality is, etc. We know exactly to a T what we have with Fox. I just don't see what we have to lose by going after someone that could pump some life and energy into the program and fanbase.

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highly likely. Basketball is a revenue sport. You can't half-arse it and expect to be even decent.

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You simply can't say it's highly likely we'll get worse bringing in a new coach. Teh amount of money the AD funnels into stegeman, or branding, or facility improvements, or anything else has literally nothing to do with how well a new coach would coach and recruit.

Fox is an average recruiter and a below average coach. If we brought in a younger guy with a hint of charisma that recruited better (wouldn't be a huge stretch) and coached better, we're already on better footing than we are now.

That may not happen, I don't know bc I can't see the future. But to say us getting worse would be "highly likely" just isn't based in any reality.

Yeah, let's fire Fox and risk losing our recruits and upward trajectory to hire an unproven young guy that, even if successful, will leave in 3 years. That's definitely good for the long-term health of the program.

We are a better program than when Fox got here and we are on the verge of breaking out of the dungeon our program has been in since Harrick decided to ruin everything we had.