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[Veritas]

Eric Sexton. The Wizard of Oz representative for WSU. The guy has no courage, no brains, and no heart!!!

He couldn't manage a Cat House in Las Vegas.

What has HE ever accomplished?

You're next to go Eric. You screwed the pooch again.

[SB Shock]

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[shox1989]

I used to be behind ADES 100% up until about a year ago or so. Just too much incompetence in the Athletic Dept. I just kept making excuses and standing behind our AD, but I just couldn't do it anymore. I think maybe being AD is way over ADES head. He had no athletic dept. experience when he was hired. He was actually put in an impossible situation. But I think it is time to hire a new, experienced AD.

[wu_shizzle]

Because ad hominem attacks and misspelled titles are totally going to win you support.

[SB Shock]

I'm sure after the Coy issue and the way Mean Gene treated Marshall - Dr. Sexton earned some points with Marshall today.

[SB Shock]

I used to be behind ADES 100% up until about a year ago or so. Just too much incompetence in the Athletic Dept. I just kept making excuses and standing behind our AD, but I just couldn't do it anymore. I think maybe being AD is way over ADES head. He had no athletic dept. experience when he was hired. He was actually put in an impossible situation. But I think it is time to hire a new, experienced AD.

lol - you sure are butt-hurt.

Women's Volleyball - 3rd Place Regular Season - NCAA At-Large - Sweet 16
Cross Country - Women 2nd and Men 3rd - Aliphine MVC Individual Champion & MVP and All-American with her 4th place finish in the National Championship
Men's Basketball - 2nd Place Regular Season - NCAA At-Large - Final Four
Women's Basketball - MVC Regular Season Co-Champs and MVC Tournament Champs - NCAA 1st Round
Indoor Track & Field - Women 1st and Men 2nd - Aliphine finished 3rd in the 5K at the National Meet
Men's Golf - MVC Champs by a record margin - NCAA Regional
Women's Golf - MVC 2nd Place
Women's Tennis - MVC Regular Season and MVC Tournament Champs - NCAA 1st Round
Men's Tennis - MVC 2nd Place Regular Season and MVC Tournament Champs - NCAA 1st Round
Outdoor Track & Field - Both women and men finished 2nd Place - 3 Men and 2 Women have qualified for upcoming NCAA Championships including a decathlete and a heptathlete - mulitple All-American performances are possible
Baseball - MVC 2nd place and MVC Tournament Champs - NCAA Regional
Softball - MVC 8th place. The only Shocker team not finishing in the Top 3 of the league.

All-Sports Trophy Winner - Average finish of 2.30 in 15 sports setting a new record.

WSU has had perhaps the best year overall in the history of its athletic programs. Congratulations and kudos to all Shocker athletes and coaches who have contributed to this very successful year.

[WuShock16]

Eric might deserve criticism for several things, but how is this one of them? How could Eric have handled this situation with baseball any better? Give Gene a lifetime contract with a seven-figure salary? I guarantee that Eric's predecessor would have handled this virtually the same way. If anything, Jim Schaus might have tried to find a way to raise money for a buyout to fire him sooner. The only reason we are in this situation was because when Gene had the OU episode, he went above Schaus's head (to Beggs) to ask for his job back. If it were Jim's choice, Gene probably would have stayed in Norman.

[Awesome Sauce Malone]

I knew it was a matter of time Veritas was in here with his schtick..

[ABC]

I'm sure after the Coy issue and the way Mean Gene treated Marshall - Dr. Sexton earned some points with Marshall today.

Completely forgot about that - and some on this forum blamed Sexton for that, if I recall.

[Veritas]

Because ad hominem attacks and misspelled titles are totally going to win you support.

Yep.... Might be time for glasses with this iPhone.
I probably will have more support than your midget puppet will ShizzleMcDrizzle

Ops Sorry Shiz. Danged AutoCorrect!

[Ricardo del Rio]

Women's Volleyball - 3rd Place Regular Season - NCAA At-Large - Sweet 16
Cross Country - Women 2nd and Men 3rd - Aliphine MVC Individual Champion & MVP and All-American with her 4th place finish in the National Championship
Men's Basketball - 2nd Place Regular Season - NCAA At-Large - Final Four
Women's Basketball - MVC Regular Season Co-Champs and MVC Tournament Champs - NCAA 1st Round
Indoor Track & Field - Women 1st and Men 2nd - Aliphine finished 3rd in the 5K at the National Meet
Men's Golf - MVC Champs by a record margin - NCAA Regional
Women's Golf - MVC 2nd Place
Women's Tennis - MVC Regular Season and MVC Tournament Champs - NCAA 1st Round
Men's Tennis - MVC 2nd Place Regular Season and MVC Tournament Champs - NCAA 1st Round
Outdoor Track & Field - Both women and men finished 2nd Place - 3 Men and 2 Women have qualified for upcoming NCAA Championships including a decathlete and a heptathlete - mulitple All-American performances are possible
Baseball - MVC 2nd place and MVC Tournament Champs - NCAA Regional
Softball - MVC 8th place. The only Shocker team not finishing in the Top 3 of the league.

All-Sports Trophy Winner - Average finish of 2.30 in 15 sports setting a new record.

WSU has had perhaps the best year overall in the history of its athletic programs. Congratulations and kudos to all Shocker athletes and coaches who have contributed to this very successful year.

Those damn facts keep getting in the way of a good argument.

[Awesome Sauce Malone]

you can do alot better than that

[BostonWu]

It's 10PM Monday and I'm stil not exactly sure what ADES done with Mean Gene. So can someone spell it out for me? Exactly what has he done that causes someone to want to fire him?

[jdmee]

This thread is one of those times we need to pause and take a deep breath before posting. I can completely understand the emotions during this time. Coach Stephenson has been here longer than most of us can remember, even longer than some of us has been alive. The results the last 5 years haven't been what we are accustomed to, this cannot be debatable. However, is this enough to replace a living legend in college baseball? I see both sides, but what we all are missing is the behind the scene factors.

Both sides need to relax a bit. Gene has not destroyed this program as many have said. We have been close to making the NCAA the last few year. We will still be one of the top programs in College baseball. This will be an attractive job for many college coaches. Money will not be the deciding factor in the replacement coach. The program will still be one that competes for NCAA tourney berths year in year out.

[The Mad Hatter]

I love how everything that goes well in the athletic department is not Sexton's doing and everything that goes wrong is always his fault (and the examples that generally come up often seem dubious - e.g. people complaining about the timing of a notification about changes to parking; when did you want the notification, AFTER you had sent your SASO check in?).

But if we are going to use the logic that the person in charge only gets blame for the bad and no credit for the good, that still doesn't explain outrage over firing Gene. After all, by that logic, Gene had no responsibility for WSU's national championship or other CWS appearances. He only was responsible for the disappointing seasons and the OU incident, right?

I can't say for sure what the right move here is, but after what has happened post OU and especially the last few eyars, I don't know how anyone can assert that either firing or retaining Gene is an untenable decision for the AD. It would be stupid to be mad at ADES for retaining Gene, after all, he is one of the winningest coaches of all time and built the program. It would be stupid to be mad at ADES for letting Gene go, after all, he has made a pattern of cutting himself off from the AD's office, made no attempts to correct obvious holes in the coaching staff, had steady decline in performance not just at a national level, but even in a mediocre league, and seen a major drop in attendance. Very good reasons for either action, and maybe ADES ultimately made the wrong one, but I'll save my indigation for situations that have an obvious right choice not ones as messy as this one.