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Post by wcu72 on Jan 4, 2019 13:57:03 GMT -5
Well, it's been a month and a half since the 2018 football season ended for the Catamounts.
As of today, I've heard of no changes in the Catamount football staff, not even on the very poorly performing defensive side of the ball.
Looks like the good 'ole boy system is still in play in the Catamount football program and Speir is going to go with the same team that has a proven record of not getting the job done.
I hope both Speir's & the AD's jobs are on the line with the results of the upcoming season, because both are not doing a thing to fix what is broken with football.
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Post by WesternFan on Jan 4, 2019 15:30:58 GMT -5
I guess they don't know the old saying about "continuing to do the same thing (with the same people) and expecting different results"
It's Speir's job to lose, Too bad he doesn't realize it.
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Post by bonsaiburke on Jan 4, 2019 22:54:55 GMT -5
I guess they don't know the old saying about "continuing to do the same thing (with the same people) and expecting different results" It's Speir's job to lose, Too bad he doesn't realize it. I'm sure he realizes if something doesn't happen this year he is going down with his staff. It is a contract year anyway |
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Post by jim64 on Jan 7, 2019 13:17:58 GMT -5
Well, it's been a month and a half since the 2018 football season ended for the Catamounts. As of today, I've heard of no changes in the Catamount football staff, not even on the very poorly performing defensive side of the ball. Looks like the good 'ole boy system is still in play in the Catamount football program and Speir is going to go with the same team that has a proven record of not getting the job done. I hope both Speir's & the AD's jobs are on the line with the results of the upcoming season, because both are not doing a thing to fix what is broken with football. 72, you tend to be spot on in your observations. In this case, you are right again. Speir has no backbone when it comes to changing his Staff for poor job performance. In the 7 seasons he has been at Western, he has fired one Coach for poor job performance. Therefore, the results on the future seasons will be on his shoulders & not the players or the coaches. When you have poor coaching & do nothing about it, that is an indication to me that Coach Speir feels no pressure from his boss to take corrective action and he does not fear that he is in jeopardy of loosing his job. The lack of funding by the University is an issue but I hope this fact is not being used as an excuse not to correct things that need to be corrected. |
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Post by haywoodcat on Jan 13, 2019 8:58:23 GMT -5
Very disappointed when I read the article in Smoky Mountain New about WCU athletics. Our AD comments on no mall to go to
in Cullowhee and african american students cannot get a hair cut in Cullowhee, having to go home or to Asheville. I thought after
Chip left we could be more positive and sell Cullowhee as one of the top places to live. Does this man want to get fired or just
dont get it. Chancellor needs to put a gag order him. Going to the mall is high school and I am sure he is incorrect about the hair cuts.
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Post by FLCATAMOUNT on Jan 17, 2019 17:43:34 GMT -5
I guess they don't know the old saying about "continuing to do the same thing (with the same people) and expecting different results" It's Speir's job to lose, Too bad he doesn't realize it. I'm sure he realizes if something doesn't happen this year he is going down with his staff. It is a contract year anyway I for one am extremely happy that we have lost no coaches this year and all of our assistant coaches are coming back. We have one of the strongest if not the strongest coaching staffs in the Southern Conference. At our level, staff retention is always a problem because a coach can leave for a bigger school and more money. In years past, we have lost several good coaches because we could not afford to keep them. It is good to have a year with no turnover in staff. That helps with recruiting and continuity. I hope Coach Speir is our coach for as long as he wants to coach. |
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Post by wcugamer2 on Jan 18, 2019 13:03:02 GMT -5
I'm sure he realizes if something doesn't happen this year he is going down with his staff. It is a contract year anyway I for one am extremely happy that we have lost no coaches this year and all of our assistant coaches are coming back. We have one of the strongest if not the strongest coaching staffs in the Southern Conference. At our level, staff retention is always a problem because a coach can leave for a bigger school and more money. In years past, we have lost several good coaches because we could not afford to keep them. It is good to have a year with no turnover in staff. That helps with recruiting and continuity. I hope Coach Speir is our coach for as long as he wants to coach. This is a problem that needs to be addressed. If we ever want to have a sustained successful football program, we have to start paying all coaches a competitive wage. Assistant and position coaches salaries need to be raised, or else we will continue to have turnover |
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Post by wcu72 on Jan 18, 2019 13:09:06 GMT -5
I'm sure he realizes if something doesn't happen this year he is going down with his staff. It is a contract year anyway I for one am extremely happy that we have lost no coaches this year and all of our assistant coaches are coming back. We have one of the strongest if not the strongest coaching staffs in the Southern Conference. At our level, staff retention is always a problem because a coach can leave for a bigger school and more money. In years past, we have lost several good coaches because we could not afford to keep them. It is good to have a year with no turnover in staff. That helps with recruiting and continuity. I hope Coach Speir is our coach for as long as he wants to coach. I think our assistant coach salaries now are competitive with all the other SoCon schools. I think that prior to the Speir administration we did lose coaches for that reason, especially under Briggs. Coaches will always leave for advancement opportunities and sometimes just for a higher profile school. Our problem could be the reverse, we have some that need to leave. |
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Post by The Cats on Jan 18, 2019 14:07:43 GMT -5
I'm sure he realizes if something doesn't happen this year he is going down with his staff. It is a contract year anyway I for one am extremely happy that we have lost no coaches this year and all of our assistant coaches are coming back. We have one of the strongest if not the strongest coaching staffs in the Southern Conference. At our level, staff retention is always a problem because a coach can leave for a bigger school and more money. In years past, we have lost several good coaches because we could not afford to keep them. It is good to have a year with no turnover in staff. That helps with recruiting and continuity. I hope Coach Speir is our coach for as long as he wants to coach. We had one of the worst defenses in the entire FCS last season, and you say we have the strongest coaching staffs in the SoCon? These two things don't make sense to me, or are you just blaming the players for their poor performance? Guess it had nothing to do with the defensive coaching staff? |
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Post by wcuecu2010 on Jan 18, 2019 20:14:26 GMT -5
I for one am extremely happy that we have lost no coaches this year and all of our assistant coaches are coming back. We have one of the strongest if not the strongest coaching staffs in the Southern Conference. At our level, staff retention is always a problem because a coach can leave for a bigger school and more money. In years past, we have lost several good coaches because we could not afford to keep them. It is good to have a year with no turnover in staff. That helps with recruiting and continuity. I hope Coach Speir is our coach for as long as he wants to coach. We had one of the worst defenses in the entire FCS last season, and you say we have the strongest coaching staffs in the SoCon? These two things don't make sense to me, or are you just blaming the players for their poor performance? Guess it had nothing to do with the defensive coaching staff? I think last year was due to the players very young. Wiley has only been here for 2 years and has not had a great chance to install his defense schemes with "Wileys" style of players yet, well not last year, and they were very very young. I think this year will tell the tale. But I do not completely blame the staff, but the kids were super young. Part of last year was because the offense did not play to its capability, leaving a very young defense on the field, too long and too much is going to be a disaster. I saw them grow towards the end of the year too. I think 2019 will be an improvement. I am not convinced that a defense that consists of John Wiley and Tripp Weaver is a disaster. Both are respected in their field. I was worried that we were going to lose Wiley and/or Weaver earlier this year. Thankfully, they are staying on. |
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