Leave students fees alone. Keep your hands out of our struggling students pockets.
Keep raising the student fees every year. Something that should have been going on for years and hasn't been happening. Like has been posted before, there are more than enough applicants that apply to Long Beach every year that those that don't or can't handle paying the fee are free to apply to other schools or go the JC route.
How are those empty seats working? Empty season = ZERO REVENUE. You want butts in the seats plain and simple
$4.5 million in debt
Cut tix prices thus revenue that is desperately needed... hoping people will attend just because it is cheap
Need better home opponents that requires figure appearance fees.. that can't be covered by cheap tickets
Me thinks this proposed business model may be flawed
We also need something with the students like the Maniacs when Monson first started at the Beach. We need the student section full for every game when the students are at the school. The new coach much get out in the community, schools, everywhere to get people involved with the team. Like I posted they need to cut the ticket prices for the time being and then they can raise them when the demand is there and the team is better. There is no reason we can't average 3,000 plus a game and no more NAIA, D2 games. We need a better home schedule to get people excited and want to buy tickets and season tickets.
I assume there will be no shortage of candidates who apply for our head coach opening that will include washed up older former head coaches, JC head coaches and current assistant coaches at power 5 and elite mid majors.
Qualities I will like to see is an energetic coach with solid a recruiting background as well solid Xs and Os knowledge who is willing to go out in the community and speak to civic groups, alumni and others. How about a weekly coaches chat?
Several here have expressed an interest in an "energetic up and coming assistant". Others prefer some experience.
There can be advantages to both. I know when I was in my 30s I had a hell of a lot more fire in the belly than I do now (in my 60s). But, I also know that I know a heck of a lot more now than I did when I was younger.
My opinion is that experience is very valuable. All hires are a gamble. Most new Coaches require a 5 year contract, to give them time to build something. Since it does not look like we will ever have the money to buy out a coach, making a poor pick would be a long term disaster. Personally, I am in favor specifically of someone who has been a Head Coach and has had some success. It could be at a JC, at a lower level D1 school, at a D2 school. But, someone who knows what he wants to do and knows it works because it has. I tend to think we wont get another shot at a Coach like Monson who had experience at a higher level. The game and the money has changed so much that seems they would have to be coming off a disaster.
This model does not always work. Larry Reynolds was from this mold and struggled here. But, one important note about LR is that his first year or two here were horrid, but in every one of his 5 seasons at the helm, the program did better. Unfortunately, things like losing at home to D2 teams and a total lack of communication skills with donors had completely soured the LB community on him by the time he started to win. Therefore, someone who is charismatic and can "sell" is a trait I would look for.
For those who prefer a hot assistant, I recall our last foray in that direction, Wayne Morgan. Wayne really was a good man, but his years at Syracuse left him completely unprepared for a lower budget environment. Additionally, I seem to recall he had a personal situation where there were complications with the birth of his child during his first year. The combo had him at odds with a core of players that Greenburg left him and he never really regained his momentum here.
I would love to hear others views on what we need to look for and why you think so.
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