Stone or Littlejohn would have been great selections. Stone understood the Culture and knew the kids. I doubt a lot would have changed with him. Littlejohn was not interested. Knotts or Palmieri would have stayed at their last Charlotte programs. Definitely no interest between those 2. Butler's Varsity could easily go 4-6 this year, with the JV potentially doing worst. It's already difficult geographically to get parents to relocate to Mathews. If they don't figure it out this year. How do you convince anyone to play at Butler. Parents are already on the phone, trying to find homes for next year. If Charlotte paid like SC, and GA the Aaron Brands, Mike Palmieri's and Tommy Knotts would still be here. 85% of the head coaches in Charlotte wouldn't have jobs. Six figures would increase the talent level of coaching pedigree.
Relocating to Matthews isn’t the roadblock. Half of Butler’s zone is in East Charlotte with way more affordable housing. It’s all about coaching up and winning games, not transfers.
Same thing with Indy. McFadden is getting kids into Indy because they have East Charlotte as well. If Indy was dependent on mint hill alone, the surge of families moving their kids to Indy for football wouldn’t happen bc most houses in mint hill are now north of 500k. Indy and butler are located in the suburbs geographically, but their student body isn’t as “suburban” as you would think. Butler is only 35% white for example…that is NOT a direct representation of the town of Matthews lol, most of their student body and independence are minority students. Same thing with north meck, school is in huntersville but decent amount of kids zoned there are from north Charlotte.
All in all none of that really matters. Butler is just getting dealt a rough hand and that happens. I for one have been tough on this staff but we must take everything into consideration. They hired a staff super late in may, have one of the toughest schedules in the state with multiple state title contenders, and also have an injured starting QB. Folks are being up creek changers and dub c…all 3 of those schools would go 0-4 as well with this schedule if they were dealing with a back QB as well.
Since when is Chambers thought of as some power? They built their program in a couple years with Brand/forebee off the backs of residency changes that everyone knew. Kids stop transferring to chambers and their programs gradually has been declining…
