BingGrad

The Binghamton website now lists only head coach Mark Macon and assistant Don Anderson. Julius Smith and Ron Brown are no longer listed.

Earlier reports in this forum were that no assistant coaches were being retained.

GoCatsGo

HoopDirt had an ad on their Jobs page, I think it went up yesterday, showing that Binghamton was looking for an assistant. I guess make that 3 assistants.

c00per

Weirdness continues as Smith and Brown seem to have returned to the website:
http://www.bubearcats.com/sports/mbask/coaches.html

BingGrad

I think that is an old page. If you follow the link from the Basketball page to "Coaching Staff" you get this page http://www.bubearcats.com/index.php/...ens_basketball which shows Macon, Anderson, TBA and TBA.

Bing11

This program is a complete disaster.

bosiydid

It has to end at some point...right?

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Bing11

I just don't understand it. Logically I would think unless you are cleaning house, you keep all of the coaches together until Macon's contract is up, and then move forward. But this decision, in my opinion, is indicative of the fact that Macon has someone in the program/university who believes in him, and is willing to exhaust all other options before firing him.

Personally, I think this only extends the turmoil for 2 more years at least. By hiring two new assistant coaches, and keeping Macon, you're buying into two more terrible seasons and then what?

c00per

Holy crap. And then there were 2.

goBing

This is crazy. beyond crazy in my opinion. Ive always been some what of a Mark Macon fan, but can someone please tell me how firing 2 assistant coaches on his staff is going to instill confidence in Mark to do better job when they are saying basically that "you do not know what you are doing" (by firing the coaches he picked out). You have one of two options fire Mark Macon and start over or let him pick his own staff. In between is the worse possible thing to do.

farfromtheshow

And some people STILL don't think I know what I'm talking about... I hinted at this a month ago (or more) on twitter.

NotDeadYet

Has there been any further news of players leaving Bing? A rumor we heard here was that 5 players were considering leaving. I wonder if that and the coaching changes are related.

It's a mess.

goBing

Last I heard they are going to hold open try outs with the local middle school, to get some more players on the roaster. One middle school-er is 5'2 and is said to be able to score at will.

Bing11

Exactly. What the hell are we doing

UVM7680

No, actually this makes perfect sense, if what people were saying during the season was true.. that Macon just sat there and didn't do any coaching. So logically, the poor record couldn't be *his* fault: you'd have to blame the assistants, who actually had interactions with the players during the games. That's how it isn't crazy..

Bing11

I understand that this is probably a half joke - but the key is "macon just sat there and didnt do any coaching". That begs the question...why the F#!K didn't he get thrown out with the assistants? (yes i know he is under contract, but if that's the case, then the assistants should have lived the contract out with him).