Temple, from what I read, spent around $4,000,000 for the 30 second regional Super Bowl ad this year, and must have spent a decent amount on the same ad last night following the Oscars. Imagine how much better the return on investment would be if that money was spent on a name brand basketball coach who could both recruit and coach. How much more publicity and positive press would a real coach get for Temple by making even the "Elite Eight", compared to returns from the advertising. Dunphy makes somewhere over $1,000,000 a year. We could pay a coach $4,000,000 and get more "bang for the buck" than we do from 30 second TV ads. And we certainly could get a name brand coach for less than 4mill with our facilities, conference and media market. Additionally, and most important to me, fans would get to see better basketball. We lose to the better teams in the conference because they have more talent and equal, if not better, game day coaching. Just for fun, someone might want to figure out how much Dunphy made for each of last night's fourteen missed foul shots. You might say he isn't to blame for the players misses, however, he is to blame for the quality of the players who are missing the shots. And while I'm on this rant, we have seen how poorly the team does without Cummings, or if he gets in foul trouble. What are we going to do next year with no true point guard? Unless Dunphy pulls a decent player out of a hat, he can add another recruiting failure to the long list on his resume. Next year will be "point guard by committee."
