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It is a hypothetical and meaningless. I understand you don't like Pastner. I hated the hire as much as anyone. His tenure was a mixed bag, though, not as bad as the Gregorian period of dribbling in place. The first year was a pleasant surprise. The absolute worst attempt at spin to make Pastner...

So you understand that we have a portion of our fans who act more like enemies? That's good to know.

To the first point, yes, we excel at that, especially the less we know about the subject. To the second, nah. We probably are low on that scale. Most fanbases have people who love the hire and then told you he would never work out. Most of ours just grumble from the start.

Your first point is correct. Fortunately, conference realignment has little to do with negative fans.

Do you work for On3? Don't use their data. It isn't accurate.

The thing to do is to discard the source.

They are trying to approximate a "market value" and don't appear to do that well at all.

I clicked a link once to a team I had recently seen play. The numbers didn't make any sense. I am fairly certain they built some kind of model using their recruiting data and some other stuff unrelated to any claimed figures by any involved party. After the Rashada fiasco we know he is worth in...

I don't think their numbers are based in anything. They get references since they are the only ones putting out any numbers. Sportswriters are gullible for things like this. Think back to all of the made up numbers that were quoted by sportswriters during the realignment "rumors." Heck, the...

This made me chuckle

I don't believe their data is accurate at all.

While this is correct, don't underplay the value of marketing. The SEC gets it. They have since the '90s. Heck, Big 12 fans just make up positive things about their league that are based in nothing. The Pac fans are more negative than the ACC fans. There are A LOT of very casual college...

This is a good summary but I will add a few things. Drad didn't just leave for Clemson on his own. He was asked to leave after the NCAA fiasco where his people harassed the dumb NCAA investigator and turned a few minor violations into a major. Unprecedented and utterly dumb. Drad is the builder...

It doesn't have to be. I just think Braine thought we could win and was cheap. Drad didn't care about basketball. Mboob didn't fit in with GT alumni and it seems like he figured that out quickly.

I think your perception of GT basketball at that time was correct and I don't think Braine thought differently. He was just being cheap.

In retrospect it is funny to think he was once a hot name for the NBA. I figured he might go and hoped we could get Mike Brey. Man, that was a long time ago. As you said, we paid a LOT for being cheap then.