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Post by Sipowicz on Mar 23, 2024 12:47:51 GMT -5
Does everything that happened this week mean the BONA staff will o longer be recruiting MANHERTZ's son?
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Post by ohs73 on Mar 23, 2024 12:49:43 GMT -5
HEGONE!
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Post by ohs73 on Mar 23, 2024 13:06:34 GMT -5
If I'm Colgate or UNCW admin I'd steer clear of Manhertz. I'm glad he's out. No clue or concept about Bona history and tradition.
This NIT s$#%show was the last straw.
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Post by ohs73 on Mar 23, 2024 13:11:04 GMT -5
Regardless of his talent coming in, Manhertz fell short in several regards. I wish him the best, but maybe next time he doesn’t actively seek a lesser job less than a year in, and promise massive fundraising numbers that are wildly out of touch with our situation and alumni base. Manhertz had a really rough few days, but we need to get someone - ANYONE! - in the athletics department that has some kind of public relations experience. And the head basketball coach, who I have defended over and over and makes an absolute ton of money, completely hung his AD out to dry this week. Especially if he was in on the decision and subsequent lack of communication to his players. Mark could have ended the whole thing with one statement the day the graphic came out. He has clout and meaningful relationships with the community. Manhertz did not. Given his extensive experience in athletic media relations while at West Point, Bob Beretta would be an ideal candidate. |
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Post by bona20 on Mar 23, 2024 13:20:25 GMT -5
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Post by ohs73 on Mar 23, 2024 13:22:09 GMT -5
Bonas' needs a sports information officer, a person who can anticipate the question of not going to the NIT. That officer could have gone to the AD and coach and have gotten the information out before the ESPN graphic. None of this had to happen. Me! 😉 Just kidding... Bob Beretta fits your criterion. Like yours truly, he worked many years in the business until he accepted the LeMoyne AD position. Bob was a stalwart at West Point, where preparation and expertise go hand in hand. Not to mention organization, skills essential at that post |
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Post by Sipowicz on Mar 23, 2024 13:35:38 GMT -5
Bonas' needs a sports information officer, a person who can anticipate the question of not going to the NIT. That officer could have gone to the AD and coach and have gotten the information out before the ESPN graphic. None of this had to happen. TOM MISSEL? |
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Post by chrismoses on Mar 23, 2024 14:51:47 GMT -5
Half the board wanted Kenney gone before Manhertz was hired...Now you want him back?  ? |
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Post by ltbf on Mar 23, 2024 17:46:34 GMT -5
He was never invested in the SBU community. No family in town, no real estate owned Eric. This was a stepping stone for him but the tone was slippery and he fell into shit creek.
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Post by clubber on Mar 25, 2024 16:15:39 GMT -5
You beat me to it Ohs. Bob Beretta would be a great choice. Wife is a Bona Grad also.
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Post by gregmitch70 on Mar 25, 2024 19:58:37 GMT -5
Love it or leave it but: Some of you know that Bona grad and longtime sports social media guy Mike Lindsley has done YouTube wrap-ups on every Bona game this year. Good guy but basically just his opinions. Today, however, he hosted for 47 minutes a real reporter who has covered team for years, and often cited here, J.P. Butler, to try to unpack the NIT fiasco. Butler has actual sources. By the end, Butler affirms that from what he has been told, and what he now is willing to say, that Schmidt and Manhertz "collectively" read the room and made the NIT pullout decision together--with Schmidt, given his power and stature, the "primary" decider. That, yes, Schmidt would have wanted to play under better circumstances but given the players' views did not want to pressure. With all the frustration that built all year with modern day "out off control" shift in power to the players, Schmidt may have (here he is speculating) just thrown up his hands up and said, "Well, if they don't care, that's it." He and Lindsley then go on to question why Schmidt has not said a word in explanation. Manhertz had to "fall on his sword," justifiably, but that doesn't get Schmidt off the hook instead of "coming off unscathed." Lindlsey: "He's the face of the program." Butler: "He's the face of the school." Here it is: youtu.be/uPsfQKBjdyY?si=eFwEDjqseEVUOiGp |
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Post by fortytwo on Mar 25, 2024 21:55:08 GMT -5
What really needs to be known is what led MAW to cause a rift seen publicly in Bona basketball and resulting in a suspension.
Did the diviseness cause a rift between two different groups of players.
Did the rift cause an immediate housecleaning? Like" here's the door".
I trust Schmidt made a decision to move on quickly.
My hope is any divide didn't effect the coaching staff.
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Post by ctm77 on Mar 25, 2024 23:06:12 GMT -5
What really needs to be known is what led MAW to cause a rift seen publicly in Bona basketball and resulting in a suspension. Did the diviseness cause a rift between two different groups of players. Did the rift cause an immediate housecleaning? Like" here's the door". I trust Schmidt made a decision to move on quickly. My hope is any divide didn't effect the coaching staff. Nothing MAW could have done was worse than players of the past |
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Post by skeller6 on Mar 26, 2024 7:00:14 GMT -5
Manhertz was not the right fit for Bonas and never was. Compared to Steve Watson and Tim Kenney.......Manhertz was not aware of or devoted to Bona history, culture and community.
The NIT meltdown is a caution to all.......respect our traditions!
Chuck Pollock from the Wellsville Sun and formerly of the Olean Times Herald (by far my favorite WNY Sports Columnist) stated it clearly. How does an AD schedule Senior Day festivities and accolades after a home game (which they lost)?
In addition my take is that.........
And not honor our National Championship Rugby Team with some type of tribute memorial?
Or on his own destroy the Hall of Fame Memorial to our now deceased fellow alums who volunteered to be our beloved MBB season mascots the BI?
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Post by skeller6 on Mar 26, 2024 7:11:11 GMT -5
And by the way there should be no portal transfer submissions until the National Championship is decided.
Allowing the portal to open at the end of the regular season is just mind boggling.
No program should suffer through that kind of head gaming, but again until the penultimate NCAA Power 5 dictators decide that the system disadvantages them, then the current timeline will not change.
What we now have is basically unlimited free agency every single year.......and the chaos that ensues.
One can just imagine the additional chaos if Buddy Boy Baker, the new NCAA President pushes the paid salary plan on all D1 schools ! This will effectively and permanently destroy the mid major sector.
Bonas and most mid majors will never be able to afford to pay salaries to these athletes on top of monthly stipends, free tuition and room and board, and NIL payments.
There is only a finite amount of cash available to mid major programs. Any salary mandate will be the nail in the mid major coffin!!!
Manhertz never grasped that imperative............
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