Very good job sir!!!Originally Posted by techman05
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Very good job sir!!!
Bring coaches from all sports as well. Pass out some shirts. Bring the Hoop Troop.
The cost/benefit of something like this is a no-brainer. Get one of the 17 associate AD people he's hired to plan it and then make it happen. Have the rest of them take notes. Do it every quarter. This isn't hard to do!
Not very different from the President’s Breakfast that happens every spring. Just doesn’t happen 10-midnight. The coaches usually show up to that and help with serving the food.
I like this idea. But I think "Dr" Eric Wood should come speak to the students himself, not just send a surrogate. This would be a great opportunity to align himself directly with the students, and give him standing to hold them accountable.
Perhaps Ninfa and I need to take a respite from the French Quarter and visit the new apothecary. I suppose we could surrender our view of the Cabildo for a day or two!
The above speaks to the state of our student body. Not that they don't know anything about SGA, but that they don't care. They don't care about SGA and they don't care about Tech Athletics. Those students will be typical "techgrad/lsufans" one day.
Our AD is nothing but an empty suit. This has the makings of one of the worst hires in Tech history.
I think that title is very safe.
Not necessarily. You can not care about SGA and still care about Tech athletics. I didn't ever know who the SGA prez was while I was there but I was still at every game possible.
It's our athletics department's inability to reach out to students and keep them coming that allows them to become techgrad/lsufans. They have to create something that students want to be a part of, otherwise they'll just find something else to do during game time.
This entire region has an inferiority complex. Many attempt to legitimize themselves by claiming some kind of vicarious attachment to LSU. Then, you have these silly attempts to mimic cajun culture. It's pathetic, and most of these students who try to identify with LSU got it from their parents.
Have you considered those Dogs?
At the the 2008 Indepedence Bowl (basically Livas vs. NIU), the Shreveport Chamber ran an ad called "Louisiana's Other Side". (That was were I saw the commercial anyway -- I got the impression it was part of a broader campaign.)
I dug it. I felt that. Embracing the region's identity as a little bit Louisiana, but a little bit Texas -- drawing elements from the best of both cultures. "Why not both?" was the message. It resonated with me.
There are at least 9 distinct Nations inside Louisiana. We'd all be much healthier if we embraced our own instead of LARPing a foreign one.
Your point is well made and well taken.
This is a great idea.
Let me add this: From the mid 80s through the early 90s the athletic department promotion on campus was handled by the SGA.
At a time when you had a lot of aspiring politicians, it was really handled like a political campaign.
Like or hate his politics, when the late Lee Fletcher was SGA president he set up a system where the SGA identified a person in every organization on campus (a few hundred) that was interested in Tech athletics. The SGA then promoted and marketed to those individuals who in turn organized turnout within their own groups.
When the football and basketball programs took a dip beginning in 1992-1993 the leadership in the SGA at the time lost interest. It literally didn't recover until we entered the WAC in 2001 and the "Believe in the Blue" campaign and other organized efforts got the students involved again.
Dang. That's clever.
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