Re: Colorado back to Big XII
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Originally Posted by
Bone_afide_Dawg
There is no upward future for Tech sports. We’re done. Guice and his shitty hires and their shitty hires have doomed Tech long term.
All empty suits.
Re: Colorado back to Big XII
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Originally Posted by
dawg80
We could survive a year or two as an indy provided!! it was a transitional period heading into another conference. But not as an indy with no planned/set conference future. Might even do well as an indy, financially, for a year or two, get 5-6 bodybag games and earn $8-10 million.
In the big picture, clearly we have not faired well in all this conference shuffling mess. Some of it has been lousy leadership from our empty suits, and some of it has just been bad luck. Our rural location, where we are geographically have contributed to us being passed over. Can't control that.
I think most Tech fans really just want to see an exciting product on the field. A winning football team that is fun to watch. Given that, our conference affiliation becomes rather irrelevant.
I don't want to drop football but it really seems like schools like Harding just have more fun. You don't have to worry about competing in a race you lose before it starts. Just play a game.
Re: Colorado back to Big XII
Very demoralizing to feel like the game is over against SMU before the first quarter had even ended.
Re: Colorado back to Big XII
Looks like the AAC is going with Army -- in a similar situation to how Navy is set up.
Re: Colorado back to Big XII
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Originally Posted by
SicemDawgz
Would probably be a two bid conference in the NCAA tournament
I agree with the rest. But probably not this.
Re: Colorado back to Big XII
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Originally Posted by
dawg80
We could survive a year or two as an indy provided!! it was a transitional period heading into another conference. But not as an indy with no planned/set conference future. Might even do well as an indy, financially, for a year or two, get 5-6 bodybag games and earn $8-10 million.
In the big picture, clearly we have not faired well in all this conference shuffling mess. Some of it has been lousy leadership from our empty suits, and some of it has just been bad luck. Our rural location, where we are geographically have contributed to us being passed over. Can't control that.
I think most Tech fans really just want to see an exciting product on the field. A winning football team that is fun to watch. Given that, our conference affiliation becomes rather irrelevant.
After Saturday, I have zero confidence in our leadership improving our conference affiliation. It was shocking to hear their lack of vision and apathy towards doing something (anything) outside of keeping CUSA together. It's like they have resigned themselves to that end. Outside of a new president, we have no shot! It is incredibly disappointing.
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Originally Posted by
DawgFaninHous
After Saturday, I have zero confidence in our leadership improving our conference affiliation. It was shocking to hear their lack of vision and apathy towards doing something (anything) outside of keeping CUSA together. It's like they have resigned themselves to that end. Outside of a new president, we have no shot! It is incredibly disappointing.
What happened Saturday? The game?
Re: Colorado back to Big XII
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Originally Posted by
DawgFaninHous
After Saturday, I have zero confidence in our leadership improving our conference affiliation. It was shocking to hear their lack of vision and apathy towards doing something (anything) outside of keeping CUSA together. It's like they have resigned themselves to that end. Outside of a new president, we have no shot! It is incredibly disappointing.
Our president is not a visionary. He is not a builder. He is not a leader.
He is a professor who got promoted. The emperor has no clothes and no idea what to do. I would rather see a bad vision for the future of Tech than none at all.
Great college presidents usually come from the business world, not the academic world. The academy is usually too mired in the past to see anything new.
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Originally Posted by
revf
Our president is not a visionary. He is not a builder. He is not a leader.
He is a professor who got promoted. The emperor has no clothes and no idea what to do. I would rather see a bad vision for the future of Tech than none at all.
Great college presidents usually come from the business world, not the academic world. The academy is usually too mired in the past to see anything new.
That's a great perspective. At the game on Saturday during some conversations, without giving away any confidentiality, I was unimpressed with what was being said about AAC/CUSA, etc.... Total lack of vision!
Re: Colorado back to Big XII
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Originally Posted by
revf
Our president is not a visionary. He is not a builder. He is not a leader.
He is a professor who got promoted. The emperor has no clothes and no idea what to do. I would rather see a bad vision for the future of Tech than none at all.
Great college presidents usually come from the business world, not the academic world. The academy is usually too mired in the past to see anything new.
Agreed! colleges in general, as an industry, will go the way of dinosaurs if they don't grasp good business practices and concepts. Having a silly PhD as a college president is a mistake. What is needed is a good MBA with only minimal exposure to academia in their professional experience.
Re: Colorado back to Big XII
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Originally Posted by
DawgFaninHous
It was shocking to hear their lack of vision and apathy towards doing something (anything) outside of keeping CUSA together.
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Originally Posted by
DawgFaninHous
At the game on Saturday during some conversations, without giving away any confidentiality, I was unimpressed with what was being said about AAC/CUSA, etc.... Total lack of vision!
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Even if the AAC said flat out "no interest until your budget is $X" and even if the SB flat out said "no way, we don't need another team in Louisiana" you have to give fans some measure of hope that this is temporary.
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Originally Posted by
inudesu
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Even if the AAC said flat out "no interest until your budget is $X" and even if the SB flat out said "no way, we don't need another team in Louisiana" you have to give fans some measure of hope that this is temporary.
Sometimes I think about having Dooley as AD again. He was good at getting the fanbase energized.
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Originally Posted by
Dawgonit
Sometimes I think about having Dooley as AD again. He was good at getting the fanbase energized.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iz-8CSa9xj8
Re: Colorado back to Big XII
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Originally Posted by
inudesu
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Even if the AAC said flat out "no interest until your budget is $X" and even if the SB flat out said "no way, we don't need another team in Louisiana" you have to give fans some measure of hope that this is temporary.
"It's the hope that kills you"... The ones of us that are left have been hoping for 20, 30, 40, 50+ years! I really don't think there is a lot of hope or good will left. I think we are all just tired and they have failed to motivate us, and wasted our opportunities for growth until the current landscape is going to kill the small programs.
Re: Colorado back to Big XII
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Originally Posted by
revf
Our president is not a visionary. He is not a builder. He is not a leader.
He is a professor who got promoted. The emperor has no clothes and no idea what to do. I would rather see a bad vision for the future of Tech than none at all.
Great college presidents usually come from the business world, not the academic world. The academy is usually too mired in the past to see anything new.
The same applies to Reneau.
