The Sun Belt isn't very good at all which is why we should be more devoted as an athletic program to having a championship men's basketball program.
Corny needs a chance. But he needs another quality recruiter/connected assistant coach on the bench. Fulford will help us and Adam Williams works hard on the high school circuit. White and Moore weren't horrible gets by him. We have another assistant that I can't name his last recruit.
Corny stated on his post-game that we didn't shoot as many threes and he thinks as a coaching staff that they need to really look at that and start developing more mid-range game. I hear some say they miss listening to Dan. I don't. I think Corny handles himself well and is candid and on point on questions that are asked.
Corny does far more coaching on the sideline during games. He will challenge players. He communicates more to the players throughout the game. To me, he has some refreshing qualities.
I hope we can get him some support thru NIL. He is going to need it after this season. But we, as a school, should be thinking more about building a championship program. He needs to move some players off the bench to other schools. I actually wish more would have left last season and we could have worked the portal/JUCO for two more players. Speer, Mingo, the one Gibbs and Dawson have been good finds for this season. I think we really needed one more post/forward type player from the portal for this year's team.
Devoting to going to the NCAA tournament has great benefits. We seem to always invest in football and seem in a lot of seasons to end up in some 6-6/7-5 bowl game that no one watches. I think would be easier for us to contend yearly for a basketball title in this league in my opinion. I especially think that is true after watching all this helter-skelter that is going on right now with football.