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<blockquote data-quote="LibertyTurns" data-source="post: 221001" data-attributes="member: 789"><p>The AD is responsible for every aspect of our athletic programs. Coaching, finances, conduct, developing and maintaining fanbases, fundraising, etc. He should not have allowed the national narrative surrounding our basketball team's coaching situation to devolve into a state where the consensus media coverage was critical, demeaning, etc. If you believe this board is a microcosm of our fanbase (you can argue most on here are more involved than your average bear), just look at how the process has divided the masses. There was a void of coherent communication coming from our AD. The little there was I found contradictory, i.e. I've been looking since January yet results showed he had nothing "locked & loaded". Maybe he got played & just lacks savvy, but it really makes no difference. It's his responsibility. It damaged our program and is going to require a plan to recover. The fact that you appear to dismiss the reputation of our program as being important tells me you wouldn't care if a recruit passed on us because his handlers or our competitors were whispering in his ear that our program was is shambles or in decline and he decided to pass on GT. I say it cost us some recruits (impossible to prove, just my opinion). I say we have a hard enough time recruiting we don't need self-induced obstacles. You would also dismiss as being relevant loss of donations by supporters because of lack of confidence in our programs being managed effectively & dimished pride in our brand. I say it cost us much needed $$$. Again, we don't need self-induced obstacles. The AD is an executive running a multi-million dollar enterprise. This isn't a kid's game and done just for the love of it, it's business. His outward conduct during this transition projected incompetence, disorganization & a wide variety of other negative attributes. In my opinion GT would be better served if he adopted a different attitude with respect to managing the media and our branding and moved away from his reclusive approach. That may have worked better during the days of Dodd, but we're not in the middle of the 20th century any more. In my old line of work, my assessment would have been "loss of confidence in the ability to command" and he would have been sacked given what I can deduce from how this played out. Maybe that's not fair, but that's my cut. It pains me that in my lifetime we've been unable to project GT as one of the elite destinations given all our gifts- location, academics, history, etc.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LibertyTurns, post: 221001, member: 789"] The AD is responsible for every aspect of our athletic programs. Coaching, finances, conduct, developing and maintaining fanbases, fundraising, etc. He should not have allowed the national narrative surrounding our basketball team's coaching situation to devolve into a state where the consensus media coverage was critical, demeaning, etc. If you believe this board is a microcosm of our fanbase (you can argue most on here are more involved than your average bear), just look at how the process has divided the masses. There was a void of coherent communication coming from our AD. The little there was I found contradictory, i.e. I've been looking since January yet results showed he had nothing "locked & loaded". Maybe he got played & just lacks savvy, but it really makes no difference. It's his responsibility. It damaged our program and is going to require a plan to recover. The fact that you appear to dismiss the reputation of our program as being important tells me you wouldn't care if a recruit passed on us because his handlers or our competitors were whispering in his ear that our program was is shambles or in decline and he decided to pass on GT. I say it cost us some recruits (impossible to prove, just my opinion). I say we have a hard enough time recruiting we don't need self-induced obstacles. You would also dismiss as being relevant loss of donations by supporters because of lack of confidence in our programs being managed effectively & dimished pride in our brand. I say it cost us much needed $$$. Again, we don't need self-induced obstacles. The AD is an executive running a multi-million dollar enterprise. This isn't a kid's game and done just for the love of it, it's business. His outward conduct during this transition projected incompetence, disorganization & a wide variety of other negative attributes. In my opinion GT would be better served if he adopted a different attitude with respect to managing the media and our branding and moved away from his reclusive approach. That may have worked better during the days of Dodd, but we're not in the middle of the 20th century any more. In my old line of work, my assessment would have been "loss of confidence in the ability to command" and he would have been sacked given what I can deduce from how this played out. Maybe that's not fair, but that's my cut. It pains me that in my lifetime we've been unable to project GT as one of the elite destinations given all our gifts- location, academics, history, etc. [/QUOTE]
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