I used to think that this would be crazy talk, and say of course the admin cares. In many ways I still believe that, but in other ways can see where there’s a level of complacency.
Look at our women’s team. We are supporting this Operation Red on all fronts. From the University president to various social media and email postings including from Roussell. It’s even made local television. At the beginning of the season we made an effort to have a fun way to announce our schedule. So that tells me that if we really wanted to, we could be doing these things with the men’s team. Yet we don’t, why not?
My fear that I’ve said several times before is that men’s basketball will become stale. We’re viewed by other A10 coaches as a middle-tier job, we have forgettable schedules 2 years in a row, and our in-game robins center experience has been lackluster. We don’t have many freshmen/sophomores to build our program on with confidence and instead rely on transfers that have mostly been misses than success.