Kevin Saal Not Hot Seat

[Kung Wu]

At least this thread is funny!

[1972Shocker]

From my grade schools days. One we made up.

1,2,3,4,5,6,7 all good teams go to heaven, when they get there they all say we got beat by STA.

Good old St. Anthony's in the Wichita Parochial School League. Hey we were a bunch of altar boys, what do you expect?

[shock]

That will require Jim Schaus appearing to him on his way to the office and blinding him for a time.

Post of the year

[Shocker82/85]

You ain’t got no alibi. You ugly. You ugly.

[Onegreatracer]

Lol! Sounds like we need a Ted Woodward Hot Seat thread.

Shooting……………………………………………………………….…………………………………………… ……………….…………………………………………………………….………………………………………………… ………….two

[ShockerFever]

Well, you gotta admit he screwed up listening to people like you rather than take control of the situation at hand. No? Just look at the results.

Your guy Mills might not even be able to handle a watered- down CUSA. I sure hope that couldn't possibly be the case, but did you watch the Monmouth game? That was almost worse than Cohen level bad, if not, and to think otherwise someone would have to be a serious moron, or mongoloid. I know you agree with me on that...

lol man your butt got super sore when Brown’s name got dropped out here. Are you boning the guy or something?

Youre unhinged and are arguing meaningless semantics at this point. Brown was hot garbage that was running a sinking ship into the ground. Saal had to make a great hire and he flunked the course. You saying that Mills is “my guy” really shows how few IQ points you have stored in your unglued brain of yours.

[RoyalShock]

U G L Y

You ain’t got no alibi. You ugly. You ugly.

Yo mama said you ugly!

[SubGod22]

You ain’t got no alibi. You ugly. You ugly.

The current state of Shocker basketball.

[wsushockerdude]

Per the Eagle, Wichita State, Kevin Saal agree to 3-year contract extension with annual raises

Read more at: https://www.kansas.com/sports/colleg...orylink=cpy


I would say he's probably not on the hot seat.

[Maizerunner08]

Per the Eagle, Wichita State, Kevin Saal agree to 3-year contract extension with annual raises

Read more at: https://www.kansas.com/sports/college/wichita-state/article297262019.html#storylink=cpy


I would say he's probably not on the hot seat.

I swear we are the worst at negotiating contracts. I highly doubt there were other schools trying to poach ADKS. The ink has barely dried on his original contract.

Someone smarter than me explain why this was a good move and/or necessary.

[SB Shock]

I swear we are the worst at negotiating contracts. I highly doubt there were other schools trying to poach ADKS. The ink has barely dried on his original contract.

Someone smarter than me explain why this was a good move and/or necessary.

Except for Schaus, ADKS has probably been the best AD WSU has had that I can remember. After revenue tanking in 2021 with COVID and Boatright running the program into the ground (revenue in 2021 was $20.6 million), the athletic department revenue recovered and was reported in FY2024 at $33.8 million, which now exceeds the high point of $33.3 million in 2018. That probably looks pretty good to President Muma.

[SubGod22]

Except for Schaus, ADKS has probably been the best AD WSU has had that I can remember. After revenue tanking in 2021 with COVID and Boatright running the program into the ground (revenue in 2021 was $20.6 million), the athletic department revenue recovered and was reported in FY2024 at $33.8 million, which now exceeds the high point of $33.3 million in 2018. That probably looks pretty good to President Muma.

Think how good it could be if we actually had a good basketball coach.

[ShockerFever]

Except for Schaus, ADKS has probably been the best AD WSU has had that I can remember. After revenue tanking in 2021 with COVID and Boatright running the program into the ground (revenue in 2021 was $20.6 million), the athletic department revenue recovered and was reported in FY2024 at $33.8 million, which now exceeds the high point of $33.3 million in 2018. That probably looks pretty good to President Muma.

The bar is being set pretty low. Of course he was better than the last 2 ADs, but anybody with a pulse would be..

His defining hire to basically save the athletic department is Paul Mills. Are you ok with that? You’re the one who started a Paul Mills hot seat thread 8 months into his gig.

[Ted Lasso's Neighbor]

Per the Eagle, Wichita State, Kevin Saal agree to 3-year contract extension with annual raises

Read more at: https://www.kansas.com/sports/college/wichita-state/article297262019.html#storylink=cpy


I would say he's probably not on the hot seat.

Old news - https://shockernet.net/forum/wichita...56#post1465556 :)

Also, in that post is a link to an article in the Sunflower with some quotes from Saal regarding firing of coaches like the following:

Wichita State Athletic Director Kevin Saal said that the decision to buy out a contract can sometimes be a better fiscal decision for the university because it can “turn financial components around.”

“If you’re going in the wrong direction from a season ticket … standpoint, you’re going to struggle to make your annual budget as a department,” Saal said. “You might have to make a decision that puts you in a different place with season tickets and scholarship donations.”

Saal said “a lot” goes into the decision to fire a coach, including academic performance, NCAA compliance, community engagement and competitive success. These expectations are even higher for the men’s basketball coach.

“It’s no secret that there’s a lot of pressure on our men’s basketball program in terms of elevating it and maintaining (it) in a spot that will regularly produce the finances through season tickets (and) scholarship donations that are tied to seat locations within Charles Koch Arena,” Saal said. “It’s critical to our program from a financial standpoint.”

Saal said student-athletes are given a survey every semester in which they evaluate aspects of the athletic department.

Shocker athletes consistently rate WSU coach performance above the national average of head coaches. Saal said contracts for coaches are designed to maintain those marks.

“What we want to do, just like everywhere on campus, is position ourselves to recruit and retain top-level talent to lead our student-athletes,” he said.

[WstateU]

I’m guessing Saal has made some ‘inroads’ with the heavy hitters…