TJ Gets a Well Deserved Extension
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Cletus Van Damme
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Getting rid of that loser would be the best 685k investment TXST could ever make in athletics. Looking at his shameful lack of recruiting effort, he seems to know his shot clock is winding down and is basically quiet-quitting. There’s zero recruiting, no half-time adjustments, no passion on the bench. Enough.
slycat
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We get it you hate the man. But you're whining is so much worse than him losing.
atxman
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His contract two years ago seemed justified at the time. He had maintained Kaspar’s momentum his first two years, winning the West his first and finishing first in the regular season conference standings his second. We hadn’t done that since the ‘90s. No doubt there’s been serious regression since then, which seems to require a change. But that buyout would be painful.
carmanjello325
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bingo
eh withers salary was 250k higher and somehow the final 2 years were bought out though now it peaks my interest if that is still in the process of being paid off. the best thing that happened in withers 3 seasons was beating a winning ohio on the road. probably about the equivalent of excitement as tj winning the meaningless god awful sbc regular season in basketball in 4 seasons.the buyout that would be owed april 1 is pretty dang close to what ew was owed
gaht daym.
None of this needs to be a mystery to you jello. You're on the internet, where all answers live.
carmanjello325
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having the pay most of his own jmu buyout effectively offset from him ever getting his full buyout after being fired at txst
franslasttwinkie
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Well that makes perfect sense. TJ gets 20K to go to the NIT while Kinne gets just 25K to go to a bowl game. TJ gets 25K to be a regular season Co-champ and GJ only gets $25K to win the west. GJ inherited a team that had just won 33% of their games and was hired to compete in a quality conference and TJ inherited a team that had just won 66% of their games including making it to the conference semi final game.
Cletus Van Damme
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Your, not you’re….you must not have paid much attention in freshman English.
slycat
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Oh you sure got me good
carmanjello325
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rather peculiar that clitus exclusively lurks the mbb board
Cletus Van Damme
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Is that you, Ennis?
Bobcats2011
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That’s unfortunate that basketball is considered a bigger money earner than baseball because in my eyes trout definitely deserves more than TJ but I know that’s not how it works in college.
curious what the average attendance numbers look like for the 2 sports at end of baseball season…
Goldievirtuoso
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It's interesting to me that college baseball isn't a bigger deal. MLB is huge and most likely has a larger average attendance than the NBA.
bigred24
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MLB definitely has a larger attendance, their stadiums hold significantly more people than NBA arenas. I saw this graph, from 2022 though.
NBA is much closer to filling their arenas then MLB though.
franslasttwinkie
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You’ll have somewhat of a conclusion on Saturday. Feel free to check back. Even then you’re comparing AC vs 51 degees with some rain. I was there.
Baseball is the most boring of the Big 4, even at the highest level, and the dropoff in quality is pretty steep as you drop down the levels. We're a pretty decent program overall and in single games, we can compete vs the best, but not so much over a full season, and certainly not over X amount of years. Now, think about being a fan of ULM or ARST and how miserable that experience is. Half the time you're watching your crap team get beat like a drum and the other half your watching a competition between your terrible team and another terrible team. Now think about the fact that there are 100 teams worse than ARST. IMO, college baseball is only a quality experience if you're a fan of the top 50 or so programs, and for maybe 16-50, only about half the time. There's a LOT of bad baseball being played out there.
That's a venue issue, imo. If we were building NBA arenas w/ 45K seats, you'd fill them no problem.
I wish there was more scarcity of games in both MLB and the NBA. I think that's what makes the NFL so great is that since there are relatively few games and they're generally on the same day of the week the games are bigger events with individual wins and losses having much more meaning. Makes it a lot easier to keep up with as well.