The Bobcat Nation

We all know MSU hoops is in the tank and it has been for the past 5-6 seasons, maybe longer, some of us have tuned out MSU hoops. We get off to a fast start, melt down in the 2nd half, limp into the tournament and then done.

Brad has been here six years to get some type of identity build and have some success. 6 years. In those 6 long years, Huse has produced 1 above .500 team and that was in 2009-10 season and a whopping 1 game over at 15-14. Huse and his coaching staff is 79-95 a .454 clip and 16 games under .500 total.

UM is recruiting circles around MSU and this is not acceptable.
The Fieldhouse crowds are complete jokes except for 1 game of the year.
Big booster corporations have the "NBA" front row seating - nice if they actually show up to a game. Bozeman Senior High has more people at the high school gym that MSU.

It may be time for Fields and the President to cut the ties here I'm feeling. With the new BSC forming next year it's not going to get any easier, but there is no reason why MSU is not year in and year out in the top 3 of the Big Sky.

Bring in a new young coach who has some fire, runs a face paced offense like the good ole days when Starner was here. We saw how quickly things can change with the right coaches/players in place with the football team, maybe it's time now to give that needed attention to the Basketball program before it's too late.

This was a press release from 2010. It looks like Huse is under contract until 2013.

BOZEMAN - Montana State University has extended the contracts of football coach Rob Ash and head basketball coaches Brad Huse and Tricia Binford through mid-2013, athletic director Peter Fields said Wednesday.

The coaches have been successful in bringing stability to their programs, he said.

"Their teams consistently compete for conference championships and their student-athletes have also succeeded academically and socially," Fields said in a statement. "They are each committed to operating their program the way Montana State University asks them to, and I'm happy that the university is committing to each of them."

Binford and Huse's base salaries stay the same, with Binford earning $90,306 and Huse earning $109,507.

Binford is entering her sixth season as MSU women's basketball coach and has led the Bobcats to the Big Sky Conference tournament championship game the past two seasons.

Huse is going into his fifth season as the Bobcats men's basketball coach. His team has advanced to the league tournament all four seasons, including an appearance in the 2009 championship game.

Ash has led the Bobcats football team to three consecutive winning seasons, the first MSU football coach to do so in his first three seasons. His new three-year contract keeps his base salary at $130,000. All three contracts include incentives.

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Interesting article there.

Anyone can limp into the BSC mens basketball tournament and we even got lucky enough one year to reach the title game, when they changed the tournament format a few years ago it almost seems like we don't even have a tournament. Why not give it to the regular season champ?

Will be interesting to see if anyone on the MSU board will even look at the possibility of a buy out if it ever came to that with huse.

They won't buy him out unless a Kramer situation happens (APR dips, legal issues start popping up). And if he has another hot conference start (next season), which usually happens, Fields might ink him to another extension.

Hot starts are great but the records speak for themselves.

Gidal Kaiser wrote:They won't buy him out unless a Kramer situation happens (APR dips, legal issues start popping up). And if he has another hot conference start (next season), which usually happens, Fields might ink him to another extension.

this is what scares me the most. imagine if our football team won al their games in september and the first week in october but then lost all the rest?! i just hate how we have different expectations for football and basketball.

our basketball is simply terrible in february and march.....

Gidal Kaiser wrote:They won't buy him out unless a Kramer situation happens (APR dips, legal issues start popping up). And if he has another hot conference start (next season), which usually happens, Fields might ink him to another extension.

Just wondering if this would be a Cruzado or Fields decision ?

Hawks86 wrote:

Gidal Kaiser wrote:They won't buy him out unless a Kramer situation happens (APR dips, legal issues start popping up). And if he has another hot conference start (next season), which usually happens, Fields might ink him to another extension.

Just wondering if this would be a Cruzado or Fields decision ?

Fields...

2012-3 is probably a good year for Huse to be given one more year to finally put it together, or possibly be let go at the end of the contract. With all the JC guys from this year as Seniors plus a pretty good looking recruiting class (on paper) coming in, if he can't do it next year then it probably isn't going to happen. Unless we are ok with mediocrity as long as the APR is high enough and the players stay out of the court reports section of the newspaper, but I hope that is not the case.

There's always the chance he takes a plum assistant position-maybe with his good buddy Larry in Utah. I gotta believe he's as sick of losing as anyone. Just a thought.

MSU01 wrote:2012-3 is probably a good year for Huse to be given one more year to finally put it together, or possibly be let go at the end of the contract. With all the JC guys from this year as Seniors plus a pretty good looking recruiting class (on paper) coming in, if he can't do it next year then it probably isn't going to happen. Unless we are ok with mediocrity as long as the APR is high enough and the players stay out of the court reports section of the newspaper, but I hope that is not the case.

Much depends on what happens with Dison, Stewart, and Bigelow and whether they can run the point.

I think Fall and Johnson are decent down low, and Blount/Moon/Reid are decent wing players.

If everyone works their asses off this off season and buys in to Huse's system (that's another story), we may be able to finish in the top three.

That said, if Lillard comes back next season there's no way we finish ahead of Weber or UM, as they will both be very strong.

I predict we hover around the .500 mark and end up 4th/5th in conference.