KermitErickson 7282 posts
Jan 9, 2:13 PM
What if this team doesn't win many in this awful league this year? They lost to freaking Montana State, and yes it matters that they lost to an awful Big Sky team AND that they gave up 95 points to an awful Big Sky team. It shows a pattern of no defense and not caring.
Yes, they lost to an awful Santa Clara team. There's no indication WSU is even going to win 5 conference games this year the Pac-12's worst season in years if not ever.
Then the buyout must happen. I'm sorry, it just does. They can't afford to be letting 4K-5K at the gate not show up for 15 home games a year. Yes, should they invest more in the program.
But they can't invest in Ernie. I wanted him to succeed, but any middle school coach can see that they don't do basic defensive fundamentals, like close off-baseline, weak-side help (worst I've ever seen at the college level), or freaking stop ball, like the UW guy who went coast-to-coast uncontested, even when he got past half-court and the entire WSU five were there. It's a freaking joke, one can't win with this kind of ball, period. Why haven't any of these assistants -- one clown considered it a "great staff" on the Rivals board -- implement any kind of defense? Haskins' teams played no defense at the high school level; Seltzer had a near player revolt as head coach of Samford. Some "dream team", huh? I like the recruiting coordinator, keep him.
They can't afford to bring Ernie back if he doesn't win in this bad conference. How can anyone justify it ... and I used to be on the Ernie bandwagon.

oskidunker said:

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...one can't win with this kind of ball, period....

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I guess Kermit will be in for a surprise Thursday night.

Here's the crazy thing about Ernie Kent at WSU - this is his 5th season as head coach there, and even though he originally signed a 5-year contract, he's gotten three one-year extensions at the end of each his first three seasons. So WSU is still on the hook for three more years at the end of this year (through the end of the '21-'22 season). And Ernie makes $1.4 million a year, so the buyout at the END of this year is still $4.2 million (for comparison, I believe Wyking's buyout would only be $1.0 million for three years, for a total of $3.0 million).

https://www.cougcenter.com/wsu-cougars-basketball/2017/5/2/15525304/ernie-kent-contract-roll-over-bill-moos

Not to get all cb80 here, but if my math is right, Ernie Kent has a 18-61 conference record at Wazzu, counting Pac-12 tourney games, good for 22.8%.
2018-2019: 0-3
2017-2018: 4-15
2016-2017: 6-13
2015-2016: 1-18
2014-2015: 7-12

Wyking Jones has a 2-21 conference record so far counting Pac-12 tourney games. Good for 8.7%.

So we've got some catching up to do. Let's beat the Cougs and prove Kermit right.