An Athletic Director Thread

[wmr]

Has the current Ad ever presented or mentioned a plan or future vision during his tenure?

Learfiled got the naming rights
Tyson got cal
Hunter hired muss or was it Stephens?

His messaging sucks and the fact he killed tennis only to see them raise the money in a week to reinstate it should have served as the board's review.

The name-rights deal for Razorback Stadium expired before he bothered to find a replacement.  Just zero ability to plan or see obvious things.  I don't know what kind of job he's qualified for, but athletic director at an SEC school isn't in his wheelhouse.

[BASS]

Yes, let the hate flow through you!

[Thin Red Swine]

We have both a Director of Football Operations (basically a transportation/logistics coordinator) and a Chief of Staff.

Maybe those roles just need to be beefed up, or held more publicly accountable, and then you bring in the back-slapper to be the face and twist big money arms. Or kiss big money asses.

[Son of Spam]

We need a mob guy to make offers no one can refuse.

[Thin Red Swine]

We need a mob guy to make offers no one can refuse.

Cal surely knows a few of those.

[Son of Spam]

Cal surely knows a few of those.

Set one of the Waltons up in an uncompromising position and take pictures. Blackmail at it's finest.

[animal]

Through 25% of the season, this is what I have learned:

HY is the problem
The Board is the problem
NIL is the problem
Coaches are the problem
The players are the problem
The fans are the problem

Is there anyone/anything not the problem?

Traffic control
Tailgating nazi's (we've got tens of fans that can't throw a proper drunk)

[animal]

Also the "Oh we meant next season" kind of talk sounds awful lot like they got caught sucking ass and had to pull something out of the bag.

[jdcatty]

The name-rights deal for Razorback Stadium expired before he bothered to find a replacement.  Just zero ability to plan or see obvious things.  I don't know what kind of job he's qualified for, but athletic director at an SEC school isn't in his wheelhouse.

The problem I have with your statement is that it assumes things we don't know, or at least that I don't know.  Inherent in your statement is the idea that he didn't try to get a replacement for the naming rights until it expired.  I don't know that.  I doubt you do either.

Certainly it is true that the naming rights expired, but I don't pin that on Yurachek until I know he didn't make an honest effort to prevent that from happening.

[DrMongoose]

don't forget that the tweeting AD was hired by chancellor steinmart between his s&m sessions with students.

The prior naming agreement with the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation officially expired at the end of June 2024, so  basically now 3 seasons (until next season) has that one of if not the largest revenue potential sources on campus been a nada while the AD has whining about a lack of money.

Is there another american sports stadium that has gone as long between sponsor deals? Do they keep the old sponsor signage up after a deal expires?

The BOT is just as guilty for allowing this incompetence to continue, they have an athletics committee so why are they having the System President do a review? are the 4 pro-hunter votes afraid they will lose power or control?

Also, isn't the whole point of the Razorback Foundation to raise money? Can they not hire people who can go raise money or have they be neutered by the dumb tweeter?
 

[wmr]

The problem I have with your statement is that it assumes things we don't know, or at least that I don't know.  Inherent in your statement is the idea that he didn't try to get a replacement for the naming rights until it expired.  I don't know that.  I doubt you do either.

Certainly it is true that the naming rights expired, but I don't pin that on Yurachek until I know he didn't make an honest effort to prevent that from happening.

My goodness dude.  That's a huge revenue source to have just sit there generating $0.

If it doesn't fall to HY, who do you blame for that?

I think you're just not willing to see how terrible the man has been at his job for several years now.  It is hard to believe someone in his position could fumble that badly.  Like I said, the negotiation piece has been laughably bad.

At one point we were in contention for Kiffin and he couldn't get that done.  Our trajectory vs Ole Miss have been completely opposite over the past six years.  They actually broke through to become a top SEC football program, while we sank to the absolute fucking bottom.

They have every disadvantage that our fans have been told to parrot that we have.  Small state that they share with another SEC team, smaller stadium, smaller alumni base, basically no big corporate names attached to their alumni.  They have a great athletic director who cannot sleep at night if he isn't getting the best for Ole Miss.

Until we have some equivalent to Keith Carter, we won't see any improvements here.

[jdcatty]

My goodness dude.  That's a huge revenue source to have just sit there generating $0.

If it doesn't fall to HY, who do you blame for that?

I think you're just not willing to see how terrible the man has been at his job for several years now.  It is hard to believe someone in his position could fumble that badly.  Like I said, the negotiation piece has been laughably bad.

At one point we were in contention for Kiffin and he couldn't get that done.  Our trajectory vs Ole Miss have been completely opposite over the past six years.  They actually broke through to become a top SEC football program, while we sank to the absolute fucking bottom.

They have every disadvantage that our fans have been told to parrot that we have.  Small state that they share with another SEC team, smaller stadium, smaller alumni base, basically no big corporate names attached to their alumni.  They have a great athletic director who cannot sleep at night if he isn't getting the best for Ole Miss.

Until we have some equivalent to Keith Carter, we won't see any improvements here.

For god's sake, I understand the revenue aspect.  Maybe he couldn't find anyone to pay a fair price, but was trying.  But of course you assume the worst.

And I might add, with apparently no real knowledge.

[piglosopher]

He knew years in advance when the stadium naming rights would expire.

It's now been years since the stadium naming rights have expired.

Maybe several prospects fell through, maybe it is a collective eff up, but there was plenty of time to figure out something and the stadium still isn't named.

[vegashog]

per biddy, on more than one occasion, they had a couple of arkansas corps that were willing to secure the naming rights but couldn't get past the pissing contest that involved boosters who said they would pull their support if this guy or that guy got the deal.

payboard mod said it was central arkansas folks and seemed like the governor tried to get involved. at that point the university started looking outside the state.

[DirkPiggler]

For god's sake, I understand the revenue aspect.  Maybe he couldn't find anyone to pay a fair price, but was trying.  But of course you assume the worst.

And I might add, with apparently no real knowledge.

Do or do not.  There is no try. 

It goes to pattern of behavior.   Yurachek has failed at most of his job, so it's not only possible but likely that he either A) failed to try to secure naming rights or B) tried but did so in the worst way possible or with the least amount of effort possible. 

[jdcatty]

In my world, there is evidence or there is no evidence.  In this case we have evidence he didn't get it done, but proving why he didn't based  on past practice is very hard to do, and you haven't done it.  Simply put, we don't know why he didn't.  I would like to know before I assume the worst.

[DirkPiggler]

In my world, there is evidence or there is no evidence.  In this case we have evidence he didn't get it done, but proving why he didn't based  on past practice is very hard to do, and you haven't done it.  Simply put, we don't know why he didn't.  I would like to know before I assume the worst.

We will probably never know for sure. 

In my mind he's done nothing to earn the benefit of the doubt. 

If we were talking about firing him specifically for that potential misstep I'd agree we need more proof.  That should be near the bottom of his list of fireable offenses, which obviously starts with the Pittman buyout deal. 

[BASS]

per biddy, on more than one occasion, they had a couple of arkansas corps that were willing to secure the naming rights but couldn't get past the pissing contest that involved boosters who said they would pull their support if this guy or that guy got the deal.

payboard mod said it was central arkansas folks and seemed like the governor tried to get involved. at that point the university started looking outside the state.

Of course we're that fucking retarded

[jdcatty]

per biddy, on more than one occasion, they had a couple of arkansas corps that were willing to secure the naming rights but couldn't get past the pissing contest that involved boosters who said they would pull their support if this guy or that guy got the deal.

payboard mod said it was central arkansas folks and seemed like the governor tried to get involved. at that point the university started looking outside the state.

Exactly my point. Hard to pin that failure on Yurachek without a lot more knowledge.

[bigpig]

This state has always had a little man syndrome, so no surprise the big money movers and shakers would rather die their way than win someone else's