Porter Moser has had five years. One tournament appearance. A conference record that would get most coaches walked to the parking lot before the buyout conversation started. Every coach before him reached the Sweet 16 at least once. That’s not a high bar. That’s the floor. Moser hasn’t touched it. So what does the new AD do? He keeps him. Then tells the fans they need to be louder. Tells the community it needs to show up harder. Down South we call that talking around the point. The point is: they didn’t want to pay the buyout.
That’s fine. Buyouts are real. Say that. Don’t tell the fans who packed Lloyd Noble for Billy Tubbs and Kelvin Sampson that the problem is their energy. Those fans know what this program was. They lived it. The one honest thing Denny did was say plainly he’s keeping Moser. No spin, no national search theater. That matters. It’s the minimum. It just isn’t worth a Sweet 16.
Porter Moser has had five years. One tournament appearance. A conference record that would get most coaches walked to the parking lot before the buyout conversation started. Every coach before him reached the Sweet 16 at least once. That’s not a high bar. That’s the floor. Moser hasn’t touched it. So what does the new AD do? He keeps him. Then tells the fans they need to be louder. Tells the community it needs to show up harder. Down South we call that talking around the point. The point is: they didn’t want to pay the buyout.
That’s fine. Buyouts are real. Say that. Don’t tell the fans who packed Lloyd Noble for Billy Tubbs and Kelvin Sampson that the problem is their energy. Those fans know what this program was. They lived it. The one honest thing Denny did was say plainly he’s keeping Moser. No spin, no national search theater. That matters. It’s the minimum. It just isn’t worth a Sweet 16.