Let me start by saying I've been lurking these boards for the last 20 years. Also, maybe I'm an outlier but I was extremely happy with CDM during his tenure at Long Beach State.
Having said that, I get people are and were frustrated with the success of the men's basketball team over CDM's tenure. I'm wondering, what expectations everyone has and how a new coach will play into them.
The Big West is a competitive conference with some great coaches.
Here are some stats over CDMs 17 year tenure:
of the 11 BW schools that have existed during the last 17 years, 9 different BW schools won the BW tourny
UCSB: 4 wins
Fullerton:3 wins
UCI: 2 wins
Long Beach: 2 wins
5 other schools with 1 win
Long Beach made the BW conference tourny final 6 times. The only team that appeared in the conference final more was UCI with 7 appearances. They share the same number of conference tourny wins.
I think CDM did a great job building competitive teams and coached them well. We were essentially 3 games away from being the most successful BW program during his tenure if you measure success by making the NCAA tournament (which I do because it is the first step in advancing a program from mid major to the next level)
Really hope Coach Acker can keep the team together for next year and has success going forward. Also, I think Bobby Smitheran made a serious blunder with this comment and if I was a player on the team, I would be pissed: “My belief and hope is that by doing what I did and the timing of it, they would play inspired, and that's what they did,” Trying to take credit for the team's work and success is pretty f'd.
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