Re: Fire Rick Hart
Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2021 3:24 pm
Don't lose sight of the fact that Rick Hart's job is not to have a successful athletics program. It's to do whatever RGT wants.
gostangs wrote:redpony wrote:as much as many of us hope NOTHING is going to happen. little rickey is RGT's lap boy and he will be protected. Plus he has driven our sports programs to a new low and that makes RGT happy as he feels athletics are a PITB and would be happy without them.
Its ok to always be wrong - but you dont have to prove it as often as you do. Your RGT vendetta is tiresome. You can say he doesnt make the right decision or that his emphasis is not in the right place - but the man has proven over 20 years he is very pro athletics. I personally think it is past time for him to retire, and we need new energetic new vision at the top. But to say he doesn't like athletics is just dumb.
FWMustang wrote:I sent an email to Dr. Turner when arrived with a photo of Ole Miss's new baseball stadium asking when he was going to bring that to the Hilltop. no room. Title IX, etc given why we couldn't. We've put in many new facilities under that same problem.
PerunaPunch wrote:FWMustang wrote:I sent an email to Dr. Turner when arrived with a photo of Ole Miss's new baseball stadium asking when he was going to bring that to the Hilltop. no room. Title IX, etc given why we couldn't. We've put in many new facilities under that same problem.
There's a great little city-owned minor league baseball field within roller blading distance of campus in Reverchon Park. Currently being renovated, so timing is perfect. This would be an ultimate win-win cooperative project between the city and SMU.
https://www.reverchonballfieldrestoration.org
Dr. Turner's response of "no room" simply translates to either "no interest" or "no vision". That ballpark has been there (literally) for 100 years.
FWMustang wrote:One or both made some reference that changing conference landscape wasn't under their control. I think that is patently false. Not only should the President and AD be scanning the horizon for these seismic shifts, but they should be making moves to .
They should be doing EVERYTHING we can to be attractive for the next round of movement. We may be too late. But I still believe beyond our football and basketball futility, that not having baseball and softball is detrimental to any potential move to a better conference.
I understand all of the problems inherent with that, land not being the least of them. I sent an email to Dr. Turner when arrived with a photo of Ole Miss's new baseball stadium asking when he was going to bring that to the Hilltop. no room. Title IX, etc given why we couldn't. We've put in many new facilities under that same problem.
I hate the purple team in my hometown, but their football success and baseball success have done wonder for the whole university!
Topper wrote:FWMustang wrote:One or both made some reference that changing conference landscape wasn't under their control. I think that is patently false. Not only should the President and AD be scanning the horizon for these seismic shifts, but they should be making moves to .
They should be doing EVERYTHING we can to be attractive for the next round of movement. We may be too late. But I still believe beyond our football and basketball futility, that not having baseball and softball is detrimental to any potential move to a better conference.
I understand all of the problems inherent with that, land not being the least of them. I sent an email to Dr. Turner when arrived with a photo of Ole Miss's new baseball stadium asking when he was going to bring that to the Hilltop. no room. Title IX, etc given why we couldn't. We've put in many new facilities under that same problem.
I hate the purple team in my hometown, but their football success and baseball success have done wonder for the whole university!
Hart's Assignment No. 1 on the day of his hire should have been to position SMU in a power conference. In this respect, he has failed miserably. I am sure that in response to this statement, he would correctly point out that TV viewership and butts in the stands account for something in a college football world controlled by the television networks. In this respect, SMU has failed to produce loyal fans in the post DP era. Students come to SMU for the educational and social experience not because we have a winning football tradition. For the past 35 years we haven't. We are now two generations or more into a relatively small base of alums who are not rabid college football fans. I see the DP haunting us even now.