Has administration learned its lesson?

You are living in the past! Wake up dude!

 

MacElwein says Hello. If Kelly doesn’t play for titles, his act will go over like truffle oil on a corndog.

 

At least he did NOT call him maniacal.

All kidding aside I think he meant it in a positive way.

 

We will see if he can win.

 

Posts like this are why I and many others don’t come around here much anymore. The administration is not the problem. Your type of negative mentality is the main problem. It’s been one freaking year.

 

Good point. Besides the university president, who is over everything, there are 3 out of 21 board members that are in the Administration and part of the UAA board. The "Administration" has virtually no control in what the UAA does. The Administration is focus on running the university, not the athletic department.

 

He isn’t a long term play. If we wanted to go outbid someone for a coach Lincoln Riley was the answer.

 

Our administration is still too scared to think outside the box, be innovating, and embrace the way the game has changed for the better. They are still too afraid to have a repeat of the 1980s and fall on probation again, not realizing the NCAA itself has completely changed along with the game. Money calls the shots now, not the NCAA.

We finally caught up when it comes to auxilliary facilities (in comparison LSU was building their football center and indoor practice facility in ‘00-‘01). But our stadium still is waaaaaay behind some of our counterparts and in serious need of a cash injection.

As good an AD as Foley was, he was good for the time period he regined over, but his way of thinking is not good for modern times. Our athletic department still has too much Foley in it. Stricklin is just a fund-raiser but not a visionary. All of his hires have flopped (Napier and Golden still TBD).

I’m starting to believe we need a complete overhaul of the athletic administration top to bottom, to finally rid ourselves of that 1980s mentality, start embracing what college football is in the decade of the 2020s, and have a vision of what it can be for the next 40-50 years. Need to take chances, innovate, blaze trails, be early adapters, and not be afraid that any move could put us on probation.

 

So the fans and alumni are the problem, not the product on the field?

 

CTG is our 7th full time BB coach dating back to 1960 when Norm was the first. Since then, the first 4 winning percentages ranged from 49 to 56% (Kruger being the highest). BD won 72% and MW won 62%. We've not had a history of good BB. Toss out the high and the low and an 18-win season is what we should expect on average.

 

Trust me, the Administration has 100% control over the UAA....which is probably how it should be. The UAA board doesn't run any of the day to day operations, but they approve the strategy, direction, and planning. Knowing how most not for profit boards work, they are most likely not much more than a rubber stamp for Stricklin.

However, what the UAA board thinks is moot if the academic side disagrees. There is no way that Stricklin is going to do something opposite of what his direct superior (Fuchs) wants him to do (or not do).

 

After the unfortunate events of last night, expect to see this type of question being posed more often

 

As it should.

Since our last national championship, 4 other SEC schools have won a NC a total of 10 times. And 4 other times they were runner ups. Only in 2014 there was no SEC team in the NC fame.

We on the other hand are nowhere to be found.

Until Napier succeeds, it is failure after failure in the coaching hiring department.

Lot of dead weight in the administration IMO. Cleaning house should not be too distant in the horizon.

 

Interesting to consider UGA's AD was Foley's right hand man for a long time.

 

Your previous answer to the Administration control over the UAA resolved around "look at the number of Tigert Hall addresses" listed for the UAA board, which is 19%. I'm just not buying into the Administration control over the UAA.

Why should they have 100% control? They have different objectives, why should the tail wag the dog? If it is true, then that would explain why/how the Administrations "steals" $Ms every year from the UAA since the 80s.

 

Former AD. He retired shortly after Kirby's tenure began. Coincidence?

 

Interesting. He learned how to do it the right way under Foley. Smart hired, had government oversight/transparency removed or lessened, AD then resigns. Sounds about right.