Fire Geving

[ManOfVision]

I think it is time to move on from the Geving era. The program isn't winning and there's no obvious reason for optimism. Our past two coaches were able to win, yet Geving seems unable to replicate their success. I think the next coach needs to be an assistant from a bigger program who can come in, win within 3-4 years, and then move on to a bigger job. Someday, we won't be a stepping stone job, but for now, let's acknowledge what we are and make the best of it.

 

[martymoose]

I think it is time to move on from the Geving era. The program isn't winning and there's no obvious reason for optimism. Our past two coaches were able to win, yet Geving seems unable to replicate their success. I think the next coach needs to be an assistant from a bigger program who can come in, win within 3-4 years, and then move on to a bigger job. Someday, we won't be a stepping stone job, but for now, let's acknowledge what we are and make the best of it.

I'm inclined to agree. You can't drop 11 of 13 in the bulk of your conference schedule in your third year.

I think Geving is a fine assistant coach, I just don't think that he's a good head coach at this point in his career.

 

[BroadwayVik]

No more Sobotkas. No more Gevings. Barring any unforeseen turn of events, I see Geving going down in Viking history as Joel Sobotka II, not Ken Bone II. We need to end this practice of blindly handing the job of head coach over to an unproven assistant even if it means continuation of a heretofore winning system under the head coach hired away. It doesn't seem to work in basketball the way it has at Boise State in football. We need more Ken Bones and no more Sobotkas. This was a confirmatory learning experience. Let us never again commit this hiring decision error again! From now on, nation-wide searches are the order of the day. Burman-quality hires only.

Geving is a fine recruiter and assistant head coach and needs to be true to that identity for now, and not try to be what he is not yet---he needs more seasoning, like Heath Schroyer is getting at UNLV after he got fired as head coach at Wyoming. Geving could also take a head coaching job at a high school like Joel Sobotka did.

 

[ManOfVision]

Men's basketball was the one (high-profile) program at the school that really had some momentum a few years ago. I love what our volleyball, softball, and other programs do, but like it or not, they don't draw attention to the entire university the way that football or men's basketball can. Sadly, that momentum has been squandered with a bad coaching hire and ridiculously slow arena plan. At some point, if you aren't moving forward, you're moving backward.