Speaking of fan-dom...

Now this is truly over the top, both simultaneously humorous and pathetic. Just like with the rumblings about the need to replace football coach Pat Hill, just who could Fresno State land that would be better than Steve Cleveland?

Or is it a matter of letting Cleveland clean up a sordid basketball team and APR mess left by predecessors and THEN have the white knight appear in Fresno?

From the Fresno State SCOUT site and the Save Mart Center message board, comes these words of wisdom, courtesy of the shallow, or better yet, dry end of the gene pool:

* BUFFFSU
Posted: 12/13/2007 3:04 PM
Steve Cleveland Should Resign At Year End

I am sorry but coach Steve Cleveland needs to resign at year end.

This year our program was banking on three potentially great players all of whom are not playing with the program to take us to the next level (see below).

1. Dominic Mc Guire (NBA Draft)
2. Kevin Galloway (Academics)
3. Rekalin Sims (Legal)

I understand that we need to clean up our program but the players that should of been "impact players" Galloway and Sims are not even here because of "issues" relating to eligibility. And Mc Guire only stayed around for one year because of the hand writing on the wall.

With Cleveland Fresno State is in another Gary Colson, Ron Adams era. And as far as "issues" with players not far off from Lopes.

I say we should take a good look at Vance Wahlberg, Jim Saia, George Tarkanian as the next head coach. Cleveland should step aside before this program unravels.

(OUR COMMENT: Walberg, who wasn't able to make it through a full season at Pepperdine and set that program waaay back, Saia who may be a fine coach but hasn't been able to convince a D-1 athletic director of his readiness despite a number of head coaching interviews and Tarkanian who makes his more famous relative look like Saint Jerry -- well, there appears to be a very tenuous tethering to reality going on here)

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(OUR COMMENT: he's back with more insight)

* BUFFFSU
Posted: 12/13/2007 3:07 PM
Steve Lavin Should Also Be A Candidate
Also, what about Steve Lavin at Fresno State. Just think what he would do to this program, recruits, attendance, money... And he may be able to bring Jim Saia over from Fresno Pacific as associate head coach like he did at UCLA...

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rbambl
Posted: 12/13/2007 3:30 PM
Re: Steve Cleveland Should Resign At Year End

HAHAHAHAHA...complete imbeciles! Soo typical of most people in today's society - you want EVERYTHING NOW, no matter what the consequences!

Keep eating your supersized value meals from McDonald's drive thru; as for me, I prefer to wait for the home-cooked meal just as I prefer to wait for Steve Cleveland to build this program into a powerhouse the RIGHT WAY.

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(OUR COMMENT: Check out this from someone who has a malady other than being vertically challenged)

* t713h
Posted: 12/13/2007 3:36 PM
Re: Steve Cleveland Should Resign At Year End

steve cleveland has as much chance of building this into a powerhouse as i do beating lebron james in a one on one matchup, and i'm 58 and vertically challenged. have you seen this team play this year? they don't have one player that a big time college program would even waste a 41 cent stamp to recruit.

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* OldFigBBJ2
Posted: 12/13/2007 3:48 PM
Re: Steve Cleveland Should Resign At Year End

t713h wrote: they don't have one player that a big time college program would even waste a 41 cent stamp to recruit.

That doesn't hold true for next year's squad. There are two incoming from "big time college programs".

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* OldFigBBJ2
Posted: 12/13/2007 3:51 PM
Re: Steve Cleveland Should Resign At Year End

BUFFFSU wrote: And as far as "issues" with players [Cleveland is] not far off from Lopes.

Sure. There must be a murder or two we don't know about yet.


(OUR COMMENT: Gotta love that last line in the last comment)