I’ve enjoyed your posts and appreciate you sharing your thoughts even if it’s against the grain of this board. I say this as someone who felt a lot of the same way you did 1-2 years ago.
If you weigh all the sports equally than I do think Hardt has done a good job. He definitely gets a check for the Roussell hire and I’ll even give him credit that our lacrosse team has reached an elite level even if he wasn’t responsible for the Chemotti hire. Even with football, things were a little tenuous moving to the PL but turned out to be a good decision (at least not a bad decision) with Villanova and William and Mary joining too.
I also think that under his tenure, we’ve achieved higher academic success and graduation rates that the school appreciates and even as a fan, I do too to some extent.
However, and something I agreed with other posters when I’ve had this discussion in the past, is things are not weighed equally and men’s basketball should by far be our number one priority. Up to this point, I’ve given Hardt the benefit of the doubt particular since I’m sure his hands are tied with PQ. However, the longer this goes on the more I’m going to start blaming him. He put us in this position by giving Mooney a very bad contract extension in 2023-2024 (yes GK I’m acknowledging that it was not a good decision) and now has no way to get us out of it. 3 more years of these results are going to lead to irreparable damage to our men’s basketball program.
