In a poorly written editorial Technician says that Sendek should resign or be fired.
When will people understand that this isn’t about one game? It isn’t about the losses to Wake Forest or the win against UConn last year. Herb isn’t a better/worse coach because he beat GW or lost twice to Wake.
The big picture is simple and is all that needs to be discussed — Sendek has been given 10 years of opportunity to succeed and has generated a record of success unarguably below any coach in NC State history not named Les Robinson and inarguably worse than 14 of the 17 coaches in ACC History whom have been given the opportunity to coach for a decade or more.
Self-selecting single games and constantly moving the subjective-based criteria of how to judge the program is how we got into this mess to begin with – one year it is ACC record, one year it is “improvement”, one year it is “recruiting”, one year it is winning a single game in the NCAA Tournament.
For the record, Technician has run multiple polls through the years on Sendek that have all produced with very bad results. In 2001 and in 2005, Technician’s polls indicated that approximately 85% of students favored the removal of Coach Sendek. Since this year’s Technician editorial is so poorly constructed, allow us to turn your attention to last year’s editorial that we linked on Februray 24, 2005
Nine seasons have yielded no regular-season ACC titles, no ACC Tournament titles, three NCAA Tournament bids and no Sweet 16s. That isn’t really impressive for a coach at a school known for its basketball history.
But for State Athletics Director Lee Fowler, those three (if a miracle happens, maybe four) NCAA Tournament bids are good enough for him. If that was the case for athletic directors throughout the ACC then Dave Odom would have gotten a lifetime contract for taking Wake Forest to the Elite 8 in 1996, and Matt Doherty would still be coaching at North Carolina, because he took the Heels to the second round of the NCAA Tournament his first season.
But both coaches are gone now. Under fire, Odom left Wake Forest for South Carolina, and everyone knows how the guillotine was brought down on Doherty. Wake Forest and North Carolina currently have top-10 programs and will both get, at worst, No. 2 seeds in the NCAA Tournament. Think those athletics directors are second-guessing themselves now? I seriously doubt it.
And then there’s the Pack – that other team from North Carolina that has played above expectations for one season in the last decade. The gap between State and the other three Tobacco Road schools keeps increasing. Something has to change.â€?
What year is it?
