Some of you talk about things that cannot be done & furthermore ...I do not want to see them done. Time to be realistic. Our facility is fine. I have been to many of the MAC schools and some of these are FAR worse than YSU. Look at Butler ..successful & nothing but a large HS gym. They built history around it and now no one wants any changes. Indiana kids all get pumped from the movie Hoosiers in which it was featured. I do not want to be a top MBB program ...sorry it is is basketball and there is only so much $$$ to go around. There are the big-3 sports (Football, Baseball and Basketball). Well there is your order for me and the school was just about to scrap baseball for a basketball program? I mean we are in a power area for prep baseball ...absolutely zero local basketball (boys). I mean the school we recruit with most directly (for baseball) just had two CWS appearances. A school only 20-miles away. They also have a traditionally good MBB program but have been an absolute nothing in football except for a couple of years when 2 of our former coaches were with the program. So do you want to be like Kent?
Then there are other sports where we have a good shot at performing at a higher level. As you can see from past performances as to basketball...WBB is more important than MBB. We stand a chance to recruit coaches, players and major home games in our current budget. You just had both men's and women's track win the HL; what is that ...over 20 in the past 10-years? Our baseball program plays in a better facility than anyone in the conference and we stand a chance to get major programs to play here, at least in the late season ...something that will not happen with MBB. Look at your new bowling program having success already. Tennis (especially ladies) has been able to bring in Europeans and win big. Golf is having a huge resurgence in the Valley and at YSU. Just too many things that have priority over MBB.
We have 3 choices for a coach next year...coach Slocum, internal hire, or external hire. So let's start with Slocum's contract situation. Has anyone figured out if this year is his final extension or was he given a new contract for this year? If the latter, your questions are answered.
Then there are expectation terms. Be at or above .500 in the HL, or overall. Maintain 980APR, graduate players within 7-years, maintain 980APR, etc. It is not unfair to place these types of requirements (if reasonable) on any coach. However, a brand new coach will be on his second contract before any serious expectations can be put in place. Is this the solution? Only if we are lucky.