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Post by catamountalum04 on Aug 27, 2024 12:08:18 GMT -5
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Post by wcu1995gocats on Aug 27, 2024 15:32:12 GMT -5
I love Beck but thought this was interesting…He’s only had two seasons and had three years left on his contract. He’s done good but not great. Just seemed like an odd time to do it.
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Post by graycat on Aug 27, 2024 17:31:27 GMT -5
Great move! Should keep him around.
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Post by retiredcat on Aug 27, 2024 20:55:31 GMT -5
He is going to have his hands full with probably the least scholarships in the SoCon and a facility that is close to or at the bottom of the SoCon.
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Post by FLCATAMOUNT on Aug 28, 2024 5:05:40 GMT -5
We are lucky to have a coach the caliber of Coach Beck. With the lack of facilities and lack of support for athletics in general at WCU, it is a wonder that he had a winning season. Now that the NCAA has increased the number of baseball scholarships to 34, we will fall further behind. No way that the leadership at Western will fund any new scholarships so we will stick at 9.5 while others will fund the 34. They say athletics is the front porch of any public university. Well our front porch is about to fall off the house. The floorboards are rotten and the front door is off the hinges. Also there is an old washing machine and an old rotten weathered couch on the porch too. It is a-shame and disgrace what neglect the administration has shown and disdain the leadership has shown toward athletics over the years. Just look at the facts right before your eyes.
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Post by catamountalum04 on Aug 28, 2024 7:41:18 GMT -5
I understand what you are saying but we also need to point the finger at ourselves, at least starting this year, we on this board talk about what WCU needs to do but like we talked about last week we can't even get enough donors to get money to fix up the broken down facilities. So the school might look at this and say if the students, friends, and alumni don't care then we should we.
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Post by wcu1995gocats on Aug 28, 2024 9:56:39 GMT -5
I would have like to see Bell get an extension before Beck. But happy we’re doing what we need to, to keep both!
JUST SPECULATING - I’m curious if Beck was looking at leaving or wasn’t happy…Odd his wife got a new title the same time he got a contract extension with three years left. I wonder if there were talks and they wanted to make sure they were happy. (No facts to back this up. Just an observing). Happy to keep both in the department - Great Catamounts!
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Post by bobfolsom on Aug 28, 2024 10:29:53 GMT -5
I think that our Chancellor is doing everything to improve our athletics facilities, and with some changes that were announced, that we will see even more leadership changes at the Robinson building will help lead us to a big increase in gifts to add funds to the athletic facilities enhancement in the near future.
I am updating my guess on the game tomorrow. NC State 45 and our Catamounts 21
GO CATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by catamountalum04 on Aug 28, 2024 12:49:22 GMT -5
What is Kim's new title?
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Post by wcu1995gocats on Aug 28, 2024 20:18:44 GMT -5
I think she is now Assistant to the AD or something of that sort. We hired a WCU alum who was over the Bulldog Club at Gardner-Webb to take over Catamount Club.
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