I do not known why you state 'it will take 2 to 3 years....'
yes, he has a huge job to rebuild the foundation that was unattended for the last 6-7 years. that won't happen in one year
on the other hand, the entire Big West is wide open. so from a conference competition stand-point, actually yes the program is in a great position competitively. so no, it won't take two to three years.
he has an opportunity in year 1 to make a massive impact.
and yes, no one knows the future, but to say 'no one knows..' nope, don't buy it, I do know he will do well, because he's already doing better than his predecessor in spades via communicating, just like Tyler did better in spades than his predecessor. so yes he will do well.
lets stay with the future of this program -- no one still knows how well this new coach will do -- has to replace almost a whole team with new talent -- how good will this talent be - no one knows at this time -- it will most likely take the coach 2 to 3 years to rebuild and bring us back up to the top of the bw -- how many of the new players be at lbst -- will they stay to graduation -- or are we going to be rebuilding every year or so -- in this day and age we have no idea what to expect as of now -----------------
so far, Ackers is doing everything he can, and doing it well. He's not looking for someone else to do his job, and at least doing MORE than his job.
there's renewed enthusiasm in MBB, he has to sell Long Beach anew, and doesn't have the core that left to be as selective as he'd probably like to simply add a few key pieces
he has to build up donors and support from scratch, the AD and admin and Coach (Fee and Doubtfire & Monson) had collectively caused (however one views their decisions) MBB to shrivel out of lack of desire or skill or drive.
he has to build up teh program from scratch, even with a NCAA bid where our outgoing coach sadly used it as an opportunity to promote himself and not the school
the prior coach had failed miserably to actually be a part of the community, failed social media, failed to build any NIL base, there was no base of anything left. if CDM had stayed, we'd have no title, no team and had the same situation with two guys + Silva, only worse with the core guys leaving (and any of those CDM apologists thinking otherwise were delusional about that), CDM should be thanking his lucky stars and kissing SMiteran's arse that Smitheran acted like he did.
Smitheran deserves a TON of credit for acting decisively when he did, and not a second too soon.
the next month there be more transfers starting May 1, a huge pool of guys, lots of them will be hungry.
really pathetic MBB has only 10000 followers on Instagram (granted social media isn't everything), while MVB has 40k credit to Knipe, WVB 25k credit to a legacy plus Tyler started building it back up.
USC has 160k MBB followers, and 60k MVB, so shows how well Knipe has done and how poorly CDM promoted (He didn't evne try) MBB as the head of that program. at USC, they only have to sneeze and they can grow.
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