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    Thoughts on Oakes

    How does everyone feel about our A.D. Jim Oakes? Not only did he cut baseball's budget by a significant amount, he also made Coach Sim trim his roster b/c he couldn't "make room" for a kid that was a friend of Jim's family. Has anyone seen Mr. Oakes at any baseball games? I heard he made it to a couple of innings during the Ark series, but I haven't seen him at all. If any changes need to be made anywhere, that's gotta be at the top of the list.

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    Re: Thoughts on Oakes

    Hey, I like your BB&B name for our men's programs until they start winning again. The MENTECHSTERS!! That's the ticket.

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    Re: Thoughts on Oakes

    Yep, that was kinda the point. Thanks.

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    Re: Thoughts on Oakes

    Quote Originally Posted by mentechsters
    How does everyone feel about our A.D. Jim Oakes?
    I think you find alot of us have issues with how he treats this program - and his acumen concerning running the program as a whole -

    In addition to the Arkansas games, I did see him at the NWSt game and the Sam Houston St game -
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    Re: Thoughts on Oakes

    Quote Originally Posted by mentechsters
    How does everyone feel about our A.D. Jim Oakes? Not only did he cut baseball's budget by a significant amount, he also made Coach Sim trim his roster b/c he couldn't "make room" for a kid that was a friend of Jim's family. Has anyone seen Mr. Oakes at any baseball games? I heard he made it to a couple of innings during the Ark series, but I haven't seen him at all. If any changes need to be made anywhere, that's gotta be at the top of the list.
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    Re: Thoughts on Oakes

    Well I think Jim Oakes has done some really stupid stuff with our athletic programs. If you go to the General Sports Talk, I posted a thread on how we need to get a new AD and just elaborated on some of the things that he has done. Jim Oakes is too worried about upsetting his "friends" and that's how he operates everything which can really screw some stuff up. He cuts everyone's budgets and then there are complaints that there aren't enough people going to the games or buying season tickets. Well I think the problem begins right there. If you increase everyone's budgets so that more can be done then maybe we would have better athletics and our teams would do better meaning that we would get more people in to the stands.

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