re: Official Aggy Board Basketball Thunderdome Thread

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To all of you who said we're suffering in basketball because we got cheap and took Billy Kennedy instead of a better, more expensive option so that we could funnel more money into football

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I don't know who you are talking to, but if its me I don't think we hired BK to save up money for the stadium or Chavis or something. It was a different time, Bill went cheap because the right hire (Buzz) had a huge buyout. Bill was arrogant he could find another diamond in the rough like the previous hire, and he wasn't going to pay for the sure bet.

That decision killed our momentum (Buzz would have gotten to the tournament by now) and nothing the AD or BK can do will change that. Now that the program Billy created is gone I don't see the utility in trying to make up lost time going forward. Etch the tombstone and move on, pinch the pennies and be happy when he gets to the second round next year.

It was this moment, the Buzz failure, when I lost faith in Bill. Hyman has my support for now because we faced the same moment when USC came for Sumlin and he paid up.

As far as football expectations I expect way more out of our football program than I did five years ago. I expect to be in the playoff race this year (more likely given our history) or next. I never expected that (or the old standard BCS bowls) out of a Sherm program.