An Athletic Director Thread

[DirkPiggler]

If that's based on rev sharing distribution, I have no problem with it. I'd rather compete for a title in hoops than hitting a ceiling of winning 8-9 games in football. I may be in the minority.

It needs to lean further that way, unless it means baseball is getting way more. 

Those two sports, with a few bones thrown to softball and golf to keep the Title IX wolves at bay, need to get the lion's share for the foreseeable future. 

[Pig Benis]

If that's based on rev sharing distribution, I have no problem with it. I'd rather compete for a title in hoops than hitting a ceiling of winning 8-9 games in football. I may be in the minority.

We may be in the minority but certainly not alone. I'm not even sure we're in the minority anymore.

[The Whyte Boar]

Yes, but we aren't getting a good return.  Kentucky is right there and they have been consistently better even though they were bad enough to get rid of a coach. 

Arkansas can do both and we should be both.  We're not asking to be Bama.  We're asking to be better than Vandy and Kentucky for starters.

[bigpig]

This thread will be a lot more fun when it's bumped with a breaking news report on HY's firing.

[Snorts]

We need a 100% culture reset.  I don't mean a bunch of new players.  I mean from the top to the bottom, from the janitors and equipment men to the jerk offs on the BOT that meddle in the Athletic Department, and every single person that touches the program....flushed and replaced by people that don't just WANT to win but are obsessed with it.

None of this shit where someone in marketing wears Utah gear and people grin and wink, excuse it.  That would become unthinkable.  All the money in the world won't help an organization that only pays lip service to winning.

Of course, this won't happen.  Too much entrenched ego and petty power.  We are a dead program, and only a wholesale change will give us a chance to be decent again, and that appears to be an impossibility.

[animal]

Ok...cool. Home BancShares Inc owns Centennial Bank both head quartered in Conway, AR so I stand corrected. I thought the Florida company was who bought them out. I still bank with them even though they are a fairly shitty bank to deal with the last few years. 

[Texzilla]

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.

And things like this are the primary responsibility of the AD.  Texas Tech alums are a competitive lot but they've become unified to drive the program hard.  A&M alums rally round the Corps goofy as they are they pony up the cash.

It's yuris job to be the Don and settle all matters of disagreement to secure money from all of them instead of just letting it all go away.  The stadium name is pure stupidity and a for cause fireable offense.  It's ridiculous.  And it's not about securing nil money from public corporations but those who have been enriched by them.  The other element is reenergizing the nonalum fan base.  The sec is fueled mostly by fans who never set foot on campus except maybe to go to a game.  Years of ineptitude have murdered ours. 

[wmr]

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.

Wow that's a helluva lot of understanding for something worth several millions of dollars with a known expiration date.  Why would you even think this is defensible?

I'll go ahead assume the worst because of the multiple public examples of HY being a terrible negotiator.  Its called pattern recognition.

Letting Kiffin get away.  Pumping up Pittman's salary and buy-out when he literally had no leverage.  Just crazy shit.

[arreferee]

Ok...cool. Home BancShares Inc owns Centennial Bank both head quartered in Conway, AR so I stand corrected. I thought the Florida company was who bought them out. I still bank with them even though they are a fairly shitty bank to deal with the last few years.

I've heard a rumor from a friend in the banking industry that Home BancShares is primed to be bought out by one of the big guys (Bank of America, CitiBank, etc.) because they have reached a milestone in assets. 

[SwahiliSteve]

https://x.com/DarkGOAT69/status/2101685960245129478?s=20

[Olhickoryhog]

I seem to remember the main reason we ended up with Pittman in 2019 was because for two straight years, Hunter was going around constantly saying that losing (being bad at your job) was a reason to be fired for cause and not be given a buyout.  It scared away a lot of good up and coming coaches at the time.  So, I really hope Hunter is not a hypocrite and will refuse any buyout owed to him when he is fired for simply being the worst athletic director in college sports.

[wmr]

I seem to remember the main reason we ended up with Pittman in 2019 was because for two straight years, Hunter was going around constantly saying that losing (being bad at your job) was a reason to be fired for cause and not be given a buyout.  It scared away a lot of good up and coming coaches at the time.  So, I really hope Hunter is not a hypocrite and will refuse any buyout owed to him when he is fired for simply being the worst athletic director in college sports.

 

[Barton Fink]

https://x.com/sully7777/status/2102212816115818577

[Thin Red Swine]

Wow. He's sounding more and more like Nutt all the time.

[Feral]

https://x.com/sully7777/status/2102212816115818577

Baz certainly sounds like a guy who's lobbying for the AD job.

[Texzilla]

Wow. He's sounding more and more like Nutt all the time.

There is a group of morons online that are actively pushing for the worst outcome:  Hootie Dale Nutt being the ad.  Were this to happen I will close the remaining sliver of hog fandom and move on.

[The Whyte Boar]

I don't know, make Hooten Dale or Bazz the AD and put all decisions including hiring and firing, personnel, salaries etc. in the hands of a general manager. 

Football is too important to be in the hands of a generalist.  Make the AD a fund raising and glad handing position with the real power going to the coaches and general managers.

Couldn't be any worse. 

[DirkPiggler]

I don't know, make Hooten Dale or Bazz the AD and put all decisions including hiring and firing, personnel, salaries etc. in the hands of a general manager. 

Football is too important to be in the hands of a generalist.  Make the AD a fund raising and glad handing position with the real power going to the coaches and general managers.

Couldn't be any worse. 

Bazzel...maybe.  There is no way Nutt would accept that position with any less power than JFB himself had.  His ego wouldn't allow it.

[The Whyte Boar]

Bazzel...maybe.  There is no way Nutt would accept that position with any less power than JFB himself had.  His ego wouldn't allow it.

I'm not endorsing Nutt, but I struggle to determine how it could be worse if he was AD and had that power and more.  If you told me HY was a terrorist sent back in time to destroy Arkansas football, I wouldn't laugh you out of the room.

[DirkPiggler]

I'm not endorsing Nutt, but I struggle to determine how it could be worse if he was AD and had that power and more.  If you told me HY was a terrorist sent back in time to destroy Arkansas football, I wouldn't laugh you out of the room.

Better than HY? That's a low bar, but probably.

I hope we aim higher than the second biggest retard out there.