2027 preseason basketball mega-thread: Inaugural season in the Mountain West I don't think the portal situation is the reason we should fire him. I'm saying that I think a part of the issue with sustained success, funding and the portal are intersectional in the core issue of Les having such a long tenure at Davis and lacking the success to back keeping him on at this point. The energy is not in the building. While obviously the portal, attendance and funding have a ton of external context other than Les, I don't see how keeping him on and having a stagnant program with no juice (and this is from personal experience, talking to family and 10+ students) makes any sense. In the portal era losing a ton of guys in unfortunately the norm, but I also hear from everyone on here that he's an amazing recruiter... and then we have mediocre season after mediocre season... and then half the team leaves... and then we keep the coaching staff (
which is the longest tenured in D1). Its insanity.