Paul Mills Carmalized Marshmellow Seat

[ShockHat]

Do you think ADKS sees what we see in that article?

[Maizerunner08]

ADKS know he done messed up and there isn't an exit.

FADDB set this Titanic in motion, and ADKS hasn't done anything to stop it.

[rjl]

That article tells me all I need to know about Mills.

He's not a man. He's a coward, blaming kids for his own abject failings.

The kids don't understand? Well, what makes these kids different than the kids playing on all the teams that are winning?

Sure, Mills recruited them. But I still have a hard time believing that every one of our players cannot be coached.

Mills is a liar and a slimeball and a loser. **** this guy.

[Kung Wu]

What if in the age of sports gambling we have a player that's throwing like on Temple last year?

[Kung Wu]

That article tells me all I need to know about Mills.

He's not a man. He's a coward, blaming kids for his own abject failings.

The kids don't understand? Well, what makes these kids different than the kids playing on all the teams that are winning?

Sure, Mills recruited them. But I still have a hard time believing that every one of our players cannot be coached.

Mills is a liar and a slimeball and a loser. **** this guy.

But tell us how you really feel.

[Kung Wu]

I only want to hear Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and maybe some Radiohead in the stadium from here on out. Or at least until we right this ship.

[shox7]

Mills, doesn’t get it. The reason we are losing is we don’t play defense. He is unwilling to get away from his switching man to man defense. Teams know they can create miss matches every time down the floor due to our defense. How many times have we got Q guarding a smaller player 20’ from the basket who then shoots a wide open 3 with nobody within 5’ of him.If that doesn’t happen we then have one of our guards trying to stop a post player within a few feet of the basket. Q is not getting as many blocks many times because he is too far from the basket due to the switch. We consistently go under screens rather than over thus leaving shooters wide open to shoot 3’s. Until we get away from switching on defense teams are going to shred our defense. They may not make the open 3’s but they are going to get an opportunity.

Our offense sucks because we don’t share the ball. The only two players that will actually pass the ball to open team mates is BC and Bev. This one on four offense we have with Hill and Bell is so easy to guard. We supposedly have good offensive numbers when someone makes a cut, but again we never run a back door play which is a cut. Again every time any player gets to do an interview it is always Bell the most selfish player in recent WSU history. Bell is probably a good kid, good student, but his selfish one on four BS is really frustrating to watch, and I assume his team mates are tired of watching it as well.

Until Mills changes to his defense and tries to get Hill and Bell to pass the ball on offense, when they drive we will continue to lose. If Mills is too stubborn to make some changes to the way we play, he will be unemployed after next year. Our talent has to go up, but Mills is a huge problem, He is being out coached almost every game. I just read on TE article he is going to make changes, to the players who get playing time. I would bet those changes won’t include Bell or Hill or any changes to our switching man to man defense. End of rant!

[ShockerFever]

What if in the age of sports gambling we have a player that's throwing like on Temple last year?

Hard to narrow it down to 1.

[ShoxFan7]

When the hire was first announced, my enthusiasm meter was running low, but I tried to keep an open mind. I did enjoy what he was saying before seeing the team in action, but it’s been a downward spiral ever since, plummeting into the depths of apathy.

His talent for projecting "I'm in my over my head" vibes is nothing short of impressive. IB had the "this is probably what a head coach does, right?" aura, which might not be great, but is it any worse? To be honest, I'm at a loss and baffled that I'm even weighing these dreadful vibes against each other.

And to think, this was supposed to be the controversial, villainous coach everyone talked about. Turns out, they meant a villain working from the inside to continue dismantle our program!

I don't have the solutions, but I'm certain he's not the answer. He seems to have brought in talent—at least on paper—but he lacks the know-how to mold and develop a team. This has always been crucial for a college basketball head coach, but now, with the ever-revolving door of players every year, it's even more essential to fast-track team cohesion.

[tw805]

FWIW, I agree. I was a defender of Mills last year and the start of this season. Obviously, I'm no longer defending anything he does. Realistically, I won't watch another game this season.

There are several assumptions about the current situation that seem accurate and generally accepted:

1. The NCAA is unapologetically doubling down on all but one of the conditions that made it the transparently monopolistic racketeering organization it has been for at least 20 years.

2. The move to direct payment of players in revenue producing sports will exacerbate the current annual game of musical chairs played each year, and it would be surprising if the "transfer portal" wasn't bypassed altogether at some point.

3. The market forces that led to skyrocketing coaches' salaries will now be applied to players, too. (Yet without binding the players to contracts, apparently.)

4. All of this will result in dropping the last vestiges of the "student athlete" facade, to the extent that still existed at all, but without any of the salary caps, revenue sharing, collective bargaining, or, most importantly, without the rookie draft that the pro sports have to facilitate some amount of fairness, imperfect as those systems may be.

5. Notwithstanding the seemingly universal grumbling about these points, donors and the public are not just failing to put a stop to all of it, they are enthusiastically enabling it.


So, we are in a doom loop that has been created by this mafia that calls itself the NCAA, which apparently believes that the best way forward is to create a system that is little more than a perpetual free agent market. Thanks to that system, which is only going to get worse, withdrawn support shown through declining revenues, leaving the arena 2/3 empty, and general community apathy only perpetuates the problem further. Does going this route essentially doom the program altogether?

In a much less harsh "college athletics" environment, isn't this what happened to football? Individual donors and supporters didn't want to be the last one to buy deck chairs for the Titanic, as it were?

[ventichai]

I think realistically he’s getting one more season and if we’re in the same spot this time next year, he’s gone. I’d prefer not to wait that long but that’s the gut feeling right now.

[WuShock Reaper]

There are several assumptions about the current situation that seem accurate and generally accepted:

1. The NCAA is unapologetically doubling down on all but one of the conditions that made it the transparently monopolistic racketeering organization it has been for at least 20 years.

2. The move to direct payment of players in revenue producing sports will exacerbate the current annual game of musical chairs played each year, and it would be surprising if the "transfer portal" wasn't bypassed altogether at some point.

3. The market forces that led to skyrocketing coaches' salaries will now be applied to players, too. (Yet without binding the players to contracts, apparently.)

4. All of this will result in dropping the last vestiges of the "student athlete" facade, to the extent that still existed at all, but without any of the salary caps, revenue sharing, collective bargaining, or, most importantly, without the rookie draft that the pro sports have to facilitate some amount of fairness, imperfect as those systems may be.

5. Notwithstanding the seemingly universal grumbling about these points, donors and the public are not just failing to put a stop to all of it, they are enthusiastically enabling it.


So, we are in a doom loop that has been created by this mafia that calls itself the NCAA, which apparently believes that the best way forward is to create a system that is little more than a perpetual free agent market. Thanks to that system, which is only going to get worse, withdrawn support shown through declining revenues, leaving the arena 2/3 empty, and general community apathy only perpetuates the problem further. Does going this route essentially doom the program altogether?

In a much less harsh "college athletics" environment, isn't this what happened to football? Individual donors and supporters didn't want to be the last one to buy deck chairs for the Titanic, as it were?

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[Dan]

I think realistically he’s getting one more season and if we’re in the same spot this time next year, he’s gone. I’d prefer not to wait that long but that’s the gut feeling right now.

The only positive about Mills getting one more season is that he gets to start over with a fresh batch of players. He's either going to get things back on track or prove that he's not the man for the job. All the pressure is on his ability to assemble and coach a team next year (without any IB holdovers).

[ShockTalk]

I think realistically he’s getting one more season and if we’re in the same spot this time next year, he’s gone. I’d prefer not to wait that long but that’s the gut feeling right now.

If he is back, I think it will only be because WSU needs to get more of the Coaches' Salary Mess off the books.

[rjl]

There are several assumptions about the current situation that seem accurate and generally accepted:

1. The NCAA is unapologetically doubling down on all but one of the conditions that made it the transparently monopolistic racketeering organization it has been for at least 20 years.

2. The move to direct payment of players in revenue producing sports will exacerbate the current annual game of musical chairs played each year, and it would be surprising if the "transfer portal" wasn't bypassed altogether at some point.

3. The market forces that led to skyrocketing coaches' salaries will now be applied to players, too. (Yet without binding the players to contracts, apparently.)

4. All of this will result in dropping the last vestiges of the "student athlete" facade, to the extent that still existed at all, but without any of the salary caps, revenue sharing, collective bargaining, or, most importantly, without the rookie draft that the pro sports have to facilitate some amount of fairness, imperfect as those systems may be.

5. Notwithstanding the seemingly universal grumbling about these points, donors and the public are not just failing to put a stop to all of it, they are enthusiastically enabling it.


So, we are in a doom loop that has been created by this mafia that calls itself the NCAA, which apparently believes that the best way forward is to create a system that is little more than a perpetual free agent market. Thanks to that system, which is only going to get worse, withdrawn support shown through declining revenues, leaving the arena 2/3 empty, and general community apathy only perpetuates the problem further. Does going this route essentially doom the program altogether?

In a much less harsh "college athletics" environment, isn't this what happened to football? Individual donors and supporters didn't want to be the last one to buy deck chairs for the Titanic, as it were?

Regardless of whether all of the above is true (it probably mostly is), every suckass team that's beat us is playing in the same environment, and there's no way a lot of them are getting more NIL money than WSU.

If WSU still had the same fan support it did 5 years ago, then the NIL thing would have been a benefit to the school.