Beckman made $1.8M. Lovie makes $5M. The results should not be comparable.
Unfortunately pay doesn’t necessarily correlate to results, but that said I‘m happier paying Lovie 5 million than Beckman for free. At this point, past results aren’t as important as where we go in the future. We were better last year. IMO Beckman was a disaster, wrong direction, clown show.
Lovie has made mistakes, but we are improving, we have shown with Beason & Williams that we are capable of recruiting some talent. If it is player development or good scouting I also think we have shown we can get really good players that are not going to impress based on scouting rankings.
Last year we absolutely killed it with transfers, personally 1 year isn’t a trend, so I think the jury is still out on how successful that strategy will be long term.
We also have recently had a recruiting spurt that has caught us up to the back of the pack in the B1G. Not good enough to get us to where we want to be, but it looks like if you squint, argue at how good we are at finding hidden gems, ... then it is at least possible to think it is passable.
Lovie has done enough to at least give us a shot out of our current hole. We really need a good year this year, an uptick in recruiting this year, & another uptick next year, & likely another good year with some key transfers.
Despite all that, I’m optimistic. I think we have a chance to be more than competitive in the west next year. I think improvement this year & getting Lovie off the hot seat could lead to a very nice class next year. Filling in the depth on the roster is I think our Achilles heel for long term stability.