Lutz To South Alabama?

DING!

 

You should give Harry his blinders back.

That shitty conference has produced some pretty good NCAA scares over the years, and while the bottom certainly is weak, you are fooling yourself if you think that Winthrop, Coastal Carolina, and College of Charleston have not played good basketball through the years (and please don't try to come up with one or 2 down years to say that they have always sucked). And obvously, you must not ever have been to Winthrop, because they have a pretty nice little arena, and the campus is way nice than UNCC.

As for the pay, what is Lutz pulling down now? Marshall was at 250 -300K I think.

So, he'd be giving al of that up for a shot at the A10 title , an delusionally unrealistic fan base, and absolutely no shot at any of the decent hometown prospects. Yep, that's a definite step up right there.

Of course, none of this means jack shit because he is going to Wichita.

 

You should get a new spokesman.

 

My sister went to Winthrop. I've been there 100 times. It's an old dump. The coliseum is crappy and smells bad. They play in the #29 RPI conference in the nation. The program had a couple of nice years with Marshall at the helm. But now its over, and no one will remember who they are in 5 years.

BTW, snob, you obviously haven't been to Charlotte's campus recently. It's more than halfway through a complete metamorphasis. They have spent literally hundreds of millions on buildings and improvements in the past 5-10 years, with much more on the way, including the new $65m student union about to break ground.



Examples of other new buildings:

 

25 years is now old? We should probably get rid of the Smith Center then I guess.

Didn't smell bad when I was there. Maybe it's just you that stinks.

Anyway, like I said, none of this matters, because Marshall took another job.

Edit - Holy crap, I could have sworn that CoC was in the same league as Winthrop.

 

Is that place still losing money?

 

I have no idea.

 

That's cool. I had just read that the Smith Center never really made any money. Didn't know if it was still that way.

 

I actually tried to find some numbers, but couldn't. My guess is that there is some wort of accounting (e.g., not including advertising, donation, or possibly even basketball ticket prices) that is causing that to look like a loss. To be honest, if the Dean Dome doesn't generate a profit, then I can't think of any facility that would, because I would think that its revenues would be bigger than just about any facility out there.

That's just a guess though.

 

Pick out the good years at Coastal... one winning season in the last 14.
Yearly Records
1974-75, 6-17 .261, Dan Selwa
1975-76, 10-16 .385, Russ Bergman
1976-77, 21-10 .677, Russ Bergman
1977-78, 20-9 .690, Russ Bergman
1978-79, 18-13 .581, Russ Bergman
1979-80, 10-19 .345, Russ Bergman
1980-81, 15-11 .577, Russ Bergman
1981-82, 21-9 .700, Russ Bergman
1982-83, 21-10 .656, Russ Bergman
1983-84, 14-16 .467, Russ Bergman
1984-85, 7-21 .250, Russ Bergman
1985-86, 10-17 .370, Russ Bergman
1986-87, 12-16 .429, Russ Bergman
1987-88, 17-11 .607, Russ Bergman
1988-89, 14-14 .500, Russ Bergman
1989-90, 23-6 .793, Russ Bergman
1990-91, 24-8 .750, Russ Bergman
1991-92, 12-19 .387, Russ Bergman
1992-93, 22-10 .688, Russ Bergman
1993-94, 15-11 .577, Russ Bergman
1994-95, 6-20 .231, Michael Hopkins
1995-96, 5-21 .192, Micheal Hopkins
1996-97, 11-16 .407, Michael Hopkins
1997-98, 8-19 .296, Michael Hopkins
1998-99, 7-20 .259, Pete Strickland
1999-00, 10-18 .357, Pete Strickland
2000-01, 8-20 .286, Pete Strickland
2001-02, 8-20 .286, Pete Strickland
2002-03, 13-15 .464, Pete Strickland
2003-04, 14-15 .483, Pete Strickland
2004-05, 10-19 .345, Pete Strickland
2005-06, 20-10 .667, Buzz Peterson
2006-07, 15-15 .500, Buzz Peterson
33 YEARS, 447-491 .477

Big South Conference Yearly Records
1985-86, 1-8 .125, 8th, Russ Bergman
1986-87, 4-4 .500, 6th, Russ Bergman
1987-88, 9-4 .750, 1st, Russ Bergman
1988-89, 9-3 .750, 1st, Russ Bergman
1989-90, 11-1 .917, 1st, Russ Bergman
1990-91, 13-1 .929, 1st, Russ Bergman
1991-92, 6-8 .429, 5th, Russ Bergman
1992-93, 12-4 .750, 2nd, Russ Bergman
1993-94, 10-8 .556, 6th, Russ Bergman
1994-95, 3-13 .188, 9th, Michael Hopkins
1995-96, 1-13 .071, 8th, Michael Hopkins
1996-97, 6-8 .429, 5th, Michael Hopkins
1997-98, 4-8 .333, 4th, Michael Hopkins
1998-99, 4-6 .400, 4th, Pete Strickland
1999-00, 7-7 .500, 3rd, Pete Strickland
2000-01, 6-8 .429, 4th, Pete Strickland
2001-02, 5-9 .357, t-6th, Pete Strickland
2002-03, 5-9 .357, 7th, Pete Strickland
2003-04, 8-8 .500, 5th, Pete Strickland
2004-05, 7-9 .438, t-4th, Pete Strickland
2005-06, 12-4 .667, t-2nd, Buzz Peterson
2006-07, 7-7 .500, 4th, Buzz Peterson
22 YEARS, 150-150 .500


Lutz's contract pays him between $450,000-500,000.