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Post by FLCATAMOUNT on Dec 11, 2023 20:19:47 GMT -5
That’s fine. Coach Kerwin Bell better have a plan to win the SoCon next year is all I have to say. This is not a normal situation when your son is the OC and takes another job. Coach Bell does not get a pass because he let his son take our players. We need to win more next year. I guess his priorities are to help his son get promoted and to help players leave Western. The head football coach and ADs only message should be, Western is the best place for all players or they are not true Catamounts. My expectations are that we better win. These players signed with Western Carolina and not Kade Bell. I'll said this on another thread, Coach Bell does not have the power to stop ANY player from entering the portal. So, he's not "letting" his son take "our" players. As the NCAA has it now, all student-athletes are now "free agents" every year, free to enter the portal any time the portal is open, and they get one "free pass" to not sit out a year... I understand all that but I am sure when players we want to keep say they want to enter the portal, Coach Bell asks them why and tries to convince them to stay. This is a different situation since this is his son. I would bet Coach Bell is torn between keeping our team intact and helping his son be successful. I would not allow Kade within 500 feet of any of our players and forbid him from having any interaction. Like I said though. I expect winning and lots of it next year. I don’t want to hear whining and excuses that we lost a lot of players to the portal and especially to Pitt. No excuses. It is his job to figure how to win the SoCon next year. As long as that happens, I will not say a word. Portal or no portal, his job is to win.
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Post by bullmarket on Dec 11, 2023 20:26:03 GMT -5
Coach Bell is the best we have had since Bob Waters. Understandably, we are all disappointed that Kade is leaving but that is just the way it is in today’s college sports. We should wish Kade well and support Kerwin. He is a great coach and recruiter….support him. Quit bitching about him….change is the way it is in today’s NCAA. It sucks…for all schools….but this is the way it is. Being a coach today is difficult.
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Post by wheeman04 on Dec 11, 2023 20:33:27 GMT -5
I think on a moral level Pitt shouldn't offer our players. If they want to take off somewhere else so be it. This is a different situation then the run of the mill coach getting hired away, it's family. However I'm not naive enough to think there is any morality left in pro I mean college athletics. They offered Lee even before the hire was official, they knew what they were doing.
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Post by catamountalum04 on Dec 11, 2023 20:42:31 GMT -5
Coach Bell is the best we have had since Bob Waters. Understandably, we are all disappointed that Kade is leaving but that is just the way it is in today’s college sports. We should wish Kade well and support Kerwin. He is a great coach and recruiter….support him. Quit bitching about him….change is the way it is in today’s NCAA. It sucks…for all schools….but this is the way it is. Being a coach today is difficult. My sadness is not due to Kade leaving as most expected it but my issue is all the players and coaches leaving with him. It feels like when Prosser left and took all the good players and coaches and we had to rebuild from the ground up
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Post by FLCATAMOUNT on Dec 12, 2023 5:31:49 GMT -5
I think on a moral level Pitt shouldn't offer our players. If they want to take off somewhere else so be it. This is a different situation than the run of the mill coach getting hired away, it's family. However I'm not naive enough to think there is any morality left in pro I mean college athletics. They offered Lee even before the hire was official, they knew what they were doing. And Kade told them who to go after. No way that was a coincidence. There are probably others that Kade will poach with his dad’s permission. Kerwin had to bless it which is just wrong since he is being paid to be our coach. Conflict of interest and a violation of NCAA rules. What comes around goes around though and Karma is real. You reap what you sow. It sometimes takes 20 years but your actions always catch up with you. I wonder if the NCAA will investigate this since there is a family connection and there was obvious collusion going on to help Kade be successful. I guess blood is thicker than water. This has been handled all wrong by Western. The AD and head coach are allowing Kade to walk around campus and poach who he wants. He should recuse himself and agree not to steal our players. Again, no way this is a coincidence.
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Post by Speedwell Cat on Dec 12, 2023 7:36:28 GMT -5
Well, he did show up from Tusculum with several of their best players. But who besides Lee is he trying to take to Pitt? Frankly not sure how many ACC caliber players we currently have - ACC potential, yes, but not too many that would make an immediate impact. Coach Lassiter maybe, but not sure as an OC how much coach-replacement he gets to do, if any
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Post by catamountfanatic07 on Dec 12, 2023 7:55:50 GMT -5
Well, he did show up from Tusculum with several of their best players. But who besides Lee is he trying to take to Pitt? Frankly not sure how many ACC caliber players we currently have - ACC potential, yes, but not too many that would make an immediate impact. Coach Lassiter maybe, but not sure as an OC how much coach-replacement he gets to do, if any There’s some good intel that some others are going and possibly a coach going as well.
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Post by catamountfanatic07 on Dec 12, 2023 7:58:42 GMT -5
I think on a moral level Pitt shouldn't offer our players. If they want to take off somewhere else so be it. This is a different situation than the run of the mill coach getting hired away, it's family. However I'm not naive enough to think there is any morality left in pro I mean college athletics. They offered Lee even before the hire was official, they knew what they were doing. And Kade told them who to go after. No way that was a coincidence. There are probably others that Kade will poach with his dad’s permission. Kerwin had to bless it which is just wrong since he is being paid to be our coach. Conflict of interest and a violation of NCAA rules. What comes around goes around though and Karma is real. You reap what you sow. It sometimes takes 20 years but your actions always catch up with you. I wonder if the NCAA will investigate this since there is a family connection and there was obvious collusion going on to help Kade be successful. I guess blood is thicker than water. This has been handled all wrong by Western. The AD and head coach are allowing Kade to walk around campus and poach who he wants. He should recuse himself and agree not to steal our players. Again, no way this is a coincidence. I’m sure Kade did tell them who to try to get BUT I highly doubt Kade and Kerwin are colluding on who to let go with him and let him walk around and cherry pick players. Either way though it doesn’t matter. Thanks to the stupid portal schools like WCU are going to be a revolving door for athletes from now on. My honest thoughts are we are 5 years too late with a coach like Bell getting us a SoCon championship and deep runs into the playoffs. Hope I’m wrong though.
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Post by Speedwell Cat on Dec 12, 2023 8:16:51 GMT -5
The portal might calm down a little on our level once the last of the Covid kids move through. There’s a real glut of players trying to move around, and as somebody wrote someplace else, a lot of FCS players are trading a little NIL money for a lot less playing time - if they get picked up at all
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Post by catamountalum04 on Dec 12, 2023 9:22:11 GMT -5
I think on a moral level Pitt shouldn't offer our players. If they want to take off somewhere else so be it. This is a different situation than the run of the mill coach getting hired away, it's family. However I'm not naive enough to think there is any morality left in pro I mean college athletics. They offered Lee even before the hire was official, they knew what they were doing. And Kade told them who to go after. No way that was a coincidence. There are probably others that Kade will poach with his dad’s permission. Kerwin had to bless it which is just wrong since he is being paid to be our coach. Conflict of interest and a violation of NCAA rules. What comes around goes around though and Karma is real. You reap what you sow. It sometimes takes 20 years but your actions always catch up with you. I wonder if the NCAA will investigate this since there is a family connection and there was obvious collusion going on to help Kade be successful. I guess blood is thicker than water. This has been handled all wrong by Western. The AD and head coach are allowing Kade to walk around campus and poach who he wants. He should recuse himself and agree not to steal our players. Again, no way this is a coincidence. The NCAA does not care about WCU much less know where Cullowhee is
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