Long Beach State Athletics!: Well

..I would agree he has not distinguished himself

two legend coaches retire, does not sit well

his decision to terminate Monson and the timing was spot on. yeah, ok, let's here the excuses again for Monson from some.

still, have to give him some leeway. this structure Jane put in place makes it hard to evaluate. she divorced herself essentially from the AD. that's an impossible job situation for any AD.

still, he knew the situation and constraints

I give him and Acker two more years because of it. the clock starts on July 1st, and hopefully there is some clarity although getting more concerned we'll be in purgatory for another year of some interim BS.

the State has had ample time, and crickets

crickets from Jane for the last couple of years

nothign ever from the VP, Apfel

it's just leaderless at the top.

Jane needed to retire in 2018 or 2019, and I suspect due to the mascot thing she essentially has being running Long Beach while also despising it. it shows in her actions and comments. notably that 2019 MVB semi pregame BS she did out on the lawn. she's been useless beyond useless since.

good riddance. and at least can look forward to something, anything, some bone the State throws Beach's way

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I was wondering why they selected him over the other two finalists, who both had far superior resumes then him. He had this nice title at SDSU but he was like 3rd or 4th down from the SDSU Athletic Director, not 2nd in command. Why on earth would a Big West school choose a low level guy to be your A.D.? Did he fool everyone with the rah rah Long Beach Built stuff? I don't know if Smitheran is on a at-will contract or a multiple year deal - I don't think it was announced when they hired him. I'd like to think the new president will look at him and the reporting structure, and immediately recognize the problem, but I have little faith that the powers to be will select the right person to be the next president, especially after hiring someone (JCC) without the proper credentials to be our president.

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that the VP was going to take hosting costs out of the AD budget, leaving the Ath Department in an impossible situation

but maybe not, this was a huge failure by Apfel, Smitherin, and Jane. they all should own it, but no....just I'm sure they want it to 'go away'....and it has I guess

like really, it required effort and expense, but then Huntington Beach knows the ropes as it hosts AVP regularly and even hosted the Pac-12, so it's not like everything wasn't in place anyway, jeez

sad.

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while we may not know the entire story

this week should have been the Beach VB Championships in HUntington Beach, hosted by Long Beach State

heard all sorts of lame excuses. teh bottom line is our AD (who trying to give a lot of slack since the reporting structure with is AFU right now), and our PResident and VP (the leadership of athletics) totally f'd up hosting Beach VB

Long Beach State had it as the host school for 2025 and 2026, and now announced 2026 as well yanked baack to Gulf Shores.

so the opportunitiy to show case this years team and the sport by Long Beach was mucked up

no leadership, and Jane is also to be held accountable for whatever lack of coordination with the OC tourist co-partner for support that did not happen

7 of top 10 schools from Calif, 6 of top 8, 3 of top 4, and LMU in the finals (I guess nice to see the UCLA/USC stranglehold over) tomorrow

sad there's been nothing from the AD, nothing from Jane. I suspect they just did not LEAD to make sure things were in place when they were suppossed to. t

total failure and embarrasment frankly. at least Jane is gone, and frankly Smitherin hasn't even addressed what went wrong, probably because he was in over his head along with Jane on being the leaadership to ahve made it happen.

at least Jane is gone, and hopefully the new PResident has the AD report directly and elimnate this BS structure in place. god help Beach!