Rick Ray

[She Mate Me]

Ran across this looking for the worst D1 teams this year. I assume this has to be his last year as a D1 HC...

http://warrennolan.com/basketball/2020/schedule/Southeast-Missouri

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[Shmuley]

Every child he has sired should have "Scott" as a middle name. Damn.

 

[thekimmer]

Bless his heart. He'll still make someone a decent assistant. I hope he socked away most of his HC salary.

 

[maroonmania]

Bad enough that we gave him a HC job. But its really hard to believe someone actually gave him another HC job after his stint at MSU.

 

[aTotal360]

It was a match made in heaven.

 

[kired]

They have a basketball forum with the dozen SEMO basketball fans debating whether he should stay or go. Unbelievably there are a couple ok with him coming back. They mention wanting to just make the tournament again... the Ohio Valley Conference tournament.

http://www.semofans.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1562

 

[She Mate Me]

They have a basketball forum with the dozen SEMO basketball fans debating whether he should stay or go. Unbelievably there are a couple ok with him coming back. They mention wanting to just make the tournament again... the Ohio Valley Conference tournament.

http://www.semofans.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1562

This is painful...

"This is Rick Ray's 8th season as a head coach, he has never won 16 games in a year."

 

[patdog]

Ouch. I don't even know why they bother to field a team if they're not going to care any more than that.

 

[bruiser.sixpack]

Ouch. I don't even know why they bother to field a team if they're not going to care any more than that.

Yeah, I know. Scott put us on 3 year probation when he forced Stansbury out. The best teams A&M has had probably this decade were all built by Stansbury. Western KY just doesn’t have the resources many of the other mid-majors have apparently.***

 

[Go Budaw]

This is painful...

"This is Rick Ray's 8th season as a head coach, he has never won 16 games in a year."

That’s the equivalent of a surgeon who has 40% of his patients die on the operating table every year, yet the hospital keeps renewing his contract.

 

[maroonmania]

Yeah, I know. Scott put us on 3 year probation when he forced Stansbury out. The best teams A&M has had probably this decade were all built by Stansbury. Western KY just doesn’t have the resources many of the other mid-majors have apparently.***

The probation was hiring Ray, but yea, had we known what we were going to get I would think 99% of MSU fans would have said to just keep Stans.

 

[GloryDawg]

There are two types of coaches. Those who have been fired and those who are going to be fired.

 

[MSUDC11]

I’ve discovered that when the best thing someone can say about your coaching career is “I like him as a person” or “he’s a nice guy”, then you’re probably not a very good coach. There are nice guys that are good coaches, but that’s just a side note to their success.

The 2012 basketball coaching search was the worst thing handled by MSU Athletics this generation. I have no idea what Stricklin was thinking.

 

[FlotownDawg]

He’s not done bad at WKU. Second place in C-USA this season. Got a good chance to win the tourney and get the auto bid.

 

[17thebears]

Just got fired, per Jeff Goodman.

 

[dawgstudent]

He was genuinely a nice guy. He was very fun to interview when we did This Is Our Show.

 

[CuzDawg]

Speaking of......

 

[dawgstudent]

I can’t get the other 2/3 of This Is Our Show to do it. He’s too much of a celebrity.

 

[hailstate19]

I’ve discovered that when the best thing someone can say about your coaching career is “I like him as a person” or “he’s a nice guy”, then you’re probably not a very good coach. There are nice guys that are good coaches, but that’s just a side note to their success.

The 2012 basketball coaching search was the worst thing handled by MSU Athletics this generation. I have no idea what Stricklin was thinking.

We are still paying for this to this day

 

[hailstate19]

I hate this hire so much. This was even worse then Croom. We were actually in a fine place as a program prior, and Stricklin decided to kill our men’s basketball program for no reason. Nothing has been the same since.

 

[She Mate Me]

If only I could have been this prescient on the MSU Football Coach search...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.es...-state-parts-ways-coach-rick-ray?platform=amp

I do feel for him because he is clearly a good guy, but gudamn did Stricklin make this average college assistant a rich man!!

 

[CuzDawg]

Hahaha

 

[patdog]

Never met him, but he's one of my favorite failures as a coach we've ever had. I hate he didn't succeed at SEMO and wish him the best.

 

[patdog]

Yeah. Really nice guy, but maybe the worst possible hire we could have made.

 

[Requiem For A Dawg]

He was genuinely a nice guy. He was very fun to interview when we did This Is Our Show.

I met him on a Road Dawgs tour one year, and I believe he’s genuinely nice guy. He asked me a bunch of questions and seemed interested in my responses. It didn’t seem like it was a pain for him to be there.

He saw a friend of mine wearing a MSU shirt in the Atlanta airport and sat down beside him and struck up a conversation

He was a good dude, who I believe tried hard. It just didn’t work out. I wish him the best.

 

[olblue.sixpack]

Never met him, but he's one of my favorite failures as a coach we've ever had. I hate he didn't succeed at SEMO and wish him the best.

Way to late for that because his best is in the rear view mirror. He’ll never have a better job than he had at MSU.

 

[dawgstudent]

Rick Ray made 4 million plus from Mississippi State. In that regard, he is fine. And he will be picked up as an assistant by someone.

 

[She Mate Me]

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