There are so many clichés that we could use to discuss this topic. It’s time for a change, the best is yet to come or you could even say it’s been a long time coming but I know a change will come.

ULM women’s basketball administration needs to take some of those into consideration this offseason. I do not blame the players for the lack of success on the court, but better yet, I put all the blame on the coaching staff.

A team can only be as good as its leader with senior forward Gabriella Cortez averaging 15.7 points and 5.3 rebounds a game the team had a solid leader. The staff however was not as solid and the stats speak for themselves.

The Warhawks finished the season with a record of 4-26 and a conference record of 1-17. The only brightside to that is all four wins came at home showing that the can put on a decent showing for their fans.In the last four years as head coach, Jeff Dow has amassed a record of 34 wins with 84 losses, 18 wins in conference and 58 losses.

I am all for giving somebody a chance, but you have to know when to cut a man loose and it is time to start looking elsewhere for a coach.

Coach Jeff Dow was hired after being released by Indiana University of Pennsylvania even thought he went 108-40 in his five-year tenure. He couldn’t bring the same magic to the Warhawks that he had coaching for the Crimson Hawks. I know each coach has a set scheme that they like to use and usually deems them successful, but whatever his scheme is, he needs to get rid of it. They also need to get rid of him at this point.

It is nothing personal against Coach Dow he is probably a really good person, but athletics is a business and when dealing with a business you have to put your feelings to the side or else nothing will ever work.

Watching your home team getting beat by almost everybody is sickening and I know it has to be worse on the players. The other fans and students do not come to the games because they don’t want to sit through loss after loss.

If he is not fired, he should be kept under close watch just like the administration would do with any other sport. I understand that this is his job and lively hood, but like any job if you are not producing you get replaced and he is not producing.

He has not given us a winning season or anything that’s giving us a sign that he will turn this thing around.

If the higher ups cared anything about our athletic program, they will make the necessary changes.