I would rather win at the highest level (regular season championship & tournament championship) and have that coach leave due to that quality success, then get a coach who comes in and lectures the fans about how hard it is to win at Marshall & Huntington. I would rather get a young and motivated coach than some of our other coaches who felt mediocrity was fine & collected a decent check for year after year. We have had more than one of those.
With Kim leaving for Tennessee, it does show prospects at the head coaching position that you can come to Marshall.....achieve championships and also have future opportunities. I also enjoyed the softball season last year. I hated to lose the softball coach but that is part of the winning process.
The key is to finding the next head coach. I hope that Spears has the ability to find the next quality coach. I hated to lose Stan Parrish, but we did hire George Chaump. I hated losing Chaump, but Donnan upgraded the program. When Donnan left, we got Pruett.
We botched men's basketball for so long in many different ways. The roster was on the right path when Donnie Jones was here and then left. It was the hire after Donnie that was not good. I think Hamrick hired well in Olympic sports, but we was awful for the two main revenue sports. Marcum was worse.