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While we are discussing Coach Mills and poor performance of his team in year 3 of his tenure, perhaps it is a good time to talk about the entire athletic department at ORU. Blame President Wilson all you want, but Mike Carter apparently turns a blind eye to every other athletic program we have. The GBB, Volleyball and Baseball coaches were all hired well before President Wilson came to ORU, and both GBB and Volleyball are pathetic at best. I watched the OSU game GBB played a couple of weeks ago and quite frankly it was an embarrassment. Not only did we lose, but most NAIA programs would have given Okie State more competition. Going further, does anyone want to talk about how the GBB team performed in Brookings last night? It was worse than MBB. Coach Cussen has had a team that has failed miserably for years and I do not see that changing anytime in the future. As for the Volleyball team. they fare even worse. Then there is Coach Folmer's Baseball team which is slowly fading into the tank, year by year. Unless things change this year he and his staff should be fired. Baseball competes in one of the weakest leagues in all of D-I baseball and we could not even win the conference despite the fact that we spend way more on baseball then any other team in the Summit and also have some of the best facilities in the League. Can someone tell me when was the last time we competed for the overall best athletic program in the Summit? Our athletic programs by and large have been a joke for years even before Dr. Wilson showed up. What then is the one common factor in all of that? Mike Carter. He allowed the Suttons to tank MBB when the plug should have been pulled on that regime years before it actually was pulled. Be honest with yourselves, is ORU athletics overall really that good? Athletic spending and donations to the program have increased. About five or so years ago there were 270 Golden Eagle Club members. This past year that number was very near 1,200. If Coach Mills needs to be fired this year, and I am not taking a position either way at this time about that, then every other program needs a house cleaning as well because most of the other programs are in far worse condition with seemingly no accountability or expectations regarding the respective staffs of those programs, vis-à-vis wins and losses. If we are gong to have this discussion then lets start by addressing the real elephant in our living room, that being the entire athletic department at ORU.