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Posted by LBhoops
on 2/13/2026, 11:31 am, in reply to "Re: Is Chris Acker the right person for this job?"
I was told by someone who would know that the first 2 questions recruits ask on a visit or call are: 1 How much playing time can you guarantee me, and 2 . What compensation can you give me? Some recruits ask the compensation question first.
It is true that NIL and the lawsuit (House vs NCAA) in June of 2025 that allows athletes to be paid from the college's fund up to a limit of 21 million at each school. Source: https://www.npr.org/2025/06/06/nx-s1-5426123/ncaa-settlement-deal-athlete-compensation-judge
NIL is only one way for athletes to be paid. Funds like the LB State run Anchor fund is a fund to pay players. Unfortunately the LB fund isn't large enough to get many 3+ or 4-star recruits. 
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I don't think Dan was a bad hire for his results through 5 years or so when he had his right hand man with him. I wish we had been a little bit more successful and he could have gotten plucked away rather than how we meandered later in his career.
Anyone replacing him was coming into a drastically different NCAA situation. No longer can we tout our great location, history, facility, university to woo people over. $'s talk.
Look at Pacific. They were doormat in WCC since they left. Then NIL changed, they have a great push on their donor front, and they will have a top half WCC finish behind three NCAA teams in Gonzaga, SM, and probably SCU. Previous Message
I was thinking the same thing on the ride home last night, since Greenberg we've made 4 poor coaching decisions in a row spanning what like 30 years now and the ADs have mostly sucked at selecting a good fit. Now we have too many challenges and even a good coach will have troubles here. We ain't getting a great coach and if we lucked out, the dude would be gone before his first contract is up. Previous Message
Good question. In these days of NIL is has to be difficult.
However IMO Long Beach is not good at picking men’s basketball head coaches. I will say again I wish they woulda given the team to DeAnthony. Could not do any worse.
And we lost the game at the end of the first half with the turnover and letting Fullerton score with one second on the clock. 4 point switch. And final play coach called the play for the wrong player. Shoulda put the ball in Petars hands not an injured Sykes. Previous Message
After the Beach won at Northridge, they celebrated like they made the Final Four. Have lost 6 in a row since, and all the good will built up this season has dissipated.
Every one of these games is painful, close and completely winnable.
10 of their 17 losses this year are by 7 points or less. We have blown second-half leads in 7 of those games.
Chris Acker cannot coach his team to win in these situations. His offense turns it over or becomes stagnant, and they fail to rebound or get key stops.
Just once, ONCE, could they make a big play? Can they ever just get separation? In two years, it's yet to happen, outside of the aforementioned Northridge game.
Ultimately, Chris Acker is 7-26 in Big West play. He's failed in this role so far, and I think it's very fair to wonder if he's deserving of another season if this one results in missing the BW tournament.
I have seen signs of life from this team this year, and a lot of fight. I will credit Acker on building a roster this season that seems far better culture-wise than his inaugural season. But LBSU shouldn't be 7-26 in BW play over a 2-year stretch. At some point, you're just not doing your job.
When you combine this with the catastrophe of the WBB team, it's just a total failure of this athletic department under Bobby Smitherin.