#MillerTime

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Originally Posted by xavierj

Travis was a 16 year employee

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I'm okay if they want to hook him up with a job in the ticket office so he can keep his health insurance.

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Originally Posted by xavierj

I disagree. You don’t even fire Travis unless you have the guy everyone wants. Travis was a 16 year employee who won nearly 60% of his games, 72% in the non conference. Lost 11 non Conference games in 4 years and only one to UC who is a mid major. Went 3-1 against his rivals and was probably 4 games away from being in the NCAA tourney every year they had it. Also this was Travis first time as a head coach and everyone knew it. If Xavier does not get miller, loses all three highly rated recruits, while paying Travis $2.7 million to walk and then you end up with a mediocre Dennis gates or Pat Kelsey, it will be an absolute cluster fuck disaster.

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I think each season he had a few odd things, for sure. But pointing out how great the OOC has gone is the point. Last three years we got worse as season went on, rather once we played good teams and coaches. At some point you have to show some level of improvement as a coach but frankly his best year was year one (where Naji had like 4 games that saved us at the end). Keeping Steele is a sign that mediocrity, well worse than mediocrity, is acceptable

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Originally Posted by GoMuskies

If we end up with Kelsey, Christopher is still a hero. Just like a minor hero instead of Batman.

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No. Id stick with Steele one more year and go after someone else at that point.

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Originally Posted by GoMuskies

I'm okay if they want to hook him up with a job in the ticket office so he can keep his health insurance.

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Hell nooooooo, he will screw that up too. I got to believe Miller is the head coach and X is just doing it's due diligence to make sure there will be no sanctions coming down on the program. That's what the waiting is for.

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Originally Posted by Xavier

No. Id stick with Steele one more year and go after someone else at that point.

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I'm not advocating for Kelsey in any way shape or form. It's just that he's 10X Travis Steele. Not a huge compliment for sure.

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Originally Posted by Xavier

No. Id stick with Steele one more year and go after someone else at that point.

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Pretty sure you can't put that genie back in the bottle.

"Um, Travis, we were just kidding, why don't ya come back for a year while we look for your replacement"

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Originally Posted by drudy23

Pretty sure you can't put that genie back in the bottle.

"Um, Travis, we were just kidding, why don't ya come back for a year while we look for your replacement"

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Uh, ya think?? Just that if Kelsey was the plan I take my chances with Steele one more year.

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Originally Posted by Xavier

Uh, ya think?? Just that if Kelsey was the plan I take my chances with Steele one more year.

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I might agree with that too. I'm not high on Steele, but I also don't love the idea of re-starting the 4 year 'new coach' clock with Pat Kelsey. Xavier needs to as close to a sure thing as they can get.

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Originally Posted by Caveat

Dismissing Steele was 1,000% the correct move.

Even if they don't get Miller, it was the correct move.

Dismissing Steele *right now* was 1,000% the correct move too. The last thing this program needed was Steele stumbling through an NIT run, winning some games, and making himself more difficult to fire.

Everything I've heard said that today should be interesting, so buckle up.

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Absolutely agree with this. Steele was a disaster. Whether or not, we get Miller, terminating Steele was the right call.

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Originally Posted by Jumpin_Jamal_Forever

Absolutely agree with this. Steele was a disaster. Whether or not, we get Miller, terminating Steele was the right call.

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1000%.

With that said...finalize the deal to get Sean back home.