Wrong Call made in move to fire Heath

[flsportsfan83]

Agree with this article 100%, I have been saying since the day he was let go, it was a mistake.

 

http://www.usforacle.com/news/view.php/1027563/USF-made-wrong-call

[JTrue]

So you think Heath was better than Antigua? You're really going out on a limb.

[206BULL]

9 minutes ago, JTrue said:

So you think Heath was better than Antigua? You're really going out on a limb.

I'll go a step further and say Heath is the best MBB coach since I started following USF; in all fairness USF MBB coaches spanning that time are McCullum, Heath, Antigua and now Bartow though. Holding out hope the next coach we hire is the best MBB head coach in USF history however. 

[theman123]

I don't know if firing Heath was the wrong call. I do know that hiring Antigua was.

[Apis Bull]

6 minutes ago, theman123 said:

I don't know if firing Heath was the wrong call. I do know that hiring Antigua was.

You beat me to it.

[charsibb]

 

[SANJAY]

Heath is in the top 3 all time as USF MBB coach. Bobby Pascal, Lee Rose and Stan Heath. Maybe top 2. If you count NCAA tournament wins as the only barometer he is the best of all time. Says a lot about our MBB history.

[Who'sYourData?]

44 minutes ago, charsibb said:

 

Of course.  But the firing of Heath seemed strange at the time and I disagreed with it then.  So it is not hindsight in my case, or the case of many others.

[raptorcj]

Ahh, the offseason...oh, wait.

[Triple B]

1 hour ago, charsibb said:

 

 

46 minutes ago, Who'sYourData? said:

Of course.  But the firing of Heath seemed strange at the time and I disagreed with it then.  So it is not hindsight in my case, or the case of many others.

It was a firing that would have made sense at plenty of programs with a decent basketball history. Those were two pretty bad years following the NCAA run. If you didn't do a little dissecting of some possible reasons explaining the drop off, what the immediate future potential may have been, and the dismal basketball history before Stan, the firing would have made some sense ..... however, someone at USF should have been smart enough to see those things and Stan should have had at least one more year.