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The night after his team’s final loss, Monson texted his athletic director to set up a meeting to discuss his future. The Long Beach State coach said he told Smitheran that it “might be time for a new voice” and that he intended to resign if he couldn’t “turn things around in the [Big West] tournament.”
By that time, Smitheran had been evaluating Monson for months — how he coached, how he recruited and how he fundraised. The first-year athletic director told Monson he had already decided that a change in leadership was necessary and that he wanted Monson to announce his resignation later that day.
“How we finished, tied for fifth place in the Big West Conference and finishing the season on a five-game losing streak, didn’t equate to the talent that I saw on the roster,” Smitheran said. “We were underachieving, and I think Dan would agree with that,”
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GO BEACH
Yes precisely, and that's why a change needed to happen. That has been clear from all sides I think. Everything else is just media noise, speculation or blind support.
GO BEACH
The most frustrating part of the story is that it just adds confirmation that it took something like this to get the team to wake up and pay attention.
You could see that there was a real lack of cohesiveness and effort. Reading from other articles to the team admitted they got comfortable. All of this comes back to coaching.
Absolutely infuriating
A friend just sent me an article from "sports.yahoo.com" that tells the whole story!!!