What message is this school/Orsini sending?
Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 11:09 amWe are now officially one month into the coaching search. As I stated earlier on Saturday in another post there appears to be more questions than answers regarding this.
There are consequences attached to this:
1. If we are trusting AD Steve Orsini to make this hire -- and we have no choice but to -- then he knows his career at this school is riding on this. Mess this up and he has no chance of advancing to a BCS school like I would think he wants to. Every time he has been interviewed about this search, he's perfected the art of giving the perfect non-answer answer.
If he has someone, fine, get the process started. But as time lingers, the actions of his office, will lead many to believe he is struggling mightily. In this case, he has to offer something to this finite fanbase a little more than packaged responses.
2. He recognizes there is a small season ticket holder base of less than 5,000 -- a goal they did not reach in the summer -- and there is a risk of that number eroding again, especially if this hire does not inspire anyone and that could cause people to cancel 2008 orders. Longtime ticket holders like myself would really have to question if we want to pump more into this school if this hire doesn't give us a reason to feel good about the future. I would still go to games but maybe just buy GA tickets.
3. With the athletic department consistently facing a shortfall, you're hire is going to drive season ticket sales and revenue because people want a reason to buy your product. Football is the only sport on this campus that truly has a chance to make money as opposed to living up to its current image as a money pit.
4. It was completely counterproductive for President Turner to be quoted in the Daily Campus suggesting that they did not want to pursue a coach with a shaky past. That completely tied Orsini's hands to those he may have considered. And that begs the question, does Orsini really have the autonomy to make the call on this search like we are led to believe?
5. The move to fire Bennett was done in order to salvage recruiting. Orsini got a waiver from the NCAA to keep in contact with the commitments for about 10 days. However, the longer this search takes, the less chance there is by the new coach and staff to salvage something. We already lost the Fuller -- who I believe we really never had anyway -- and the chance of doing anything in the JC signing period in December is pretty much no factor.
Patience is a virture. I like being virtuous but I don't have drown in it either. Something needs to be coming out from Mockingbird this week or this weekend or you're going to leave the impression that you've just been left without a chair when the music stopped.
Actions or in this case inactions speak louder than words
There are consequences attached to this:
1. If we are trusting AD Steve Orsini to make this hire -- and we have no choice but to -- then he knows his career at this school is riding on this. Mess this up and he has no chance of advancing to a BCS school like I would think he wants to. Every time he has been interviewed about this search, he's perfected the art of giving the perfect non-answer answer.
If he has someone, fine, get the process started. But as time lingers, the actions of his office, will lead many to believe he is struggling mightily. In this case, he has to offer something to this finite fanbase a little more than packaged responses.
2. He recognizes there is a small season ticket holder base of less than 5,000 -- a goal they did not reach in the summer -- and there is a risk of that number eroding again, especially if this hire does not inspire anyone and that could cause people to cancel 2008 orders. Longtime ticket holders like myself would really have to question if we want to pump more into this school if this hire doesn't give us a reason to feel good about the future. I would still go to games but maybe just buy GA tickets.
3. With the athletic department consistently facing a shortfall, you're hire is going to drive season ticket sales and revenue because people want a reason to buy your product. Football is the only sport on this campus that truly has a chance to make money as opposed to living up to its current image as a money pit.
4. It was completely counterproductive for President Turner to be quoted in the Daily Campus suggesting that they did not want to pursue a coach with a shaky past. That completely tied Orsini's hands to those he may have considered. And that begs the question, does Orsini really have the autonomy to make the call on this search like we are led to believe?
5. The move to fire Bennett was done in order to salvage recruiting. Orsini got a waiver from the NCAA to keep in contact with the commitments for about 10 days. However, the longer this search takes, the less chance there is by the new coach and staff to salvage something. We already lost the Fuller -- who I believe we really never had anyway -- and the chance of doing anything in the JC signing period in December is pretty much no factor.
Patience is a virture. I like being virtuous but I don't have drown in it either. Something needs to be coming out from Mockingbird this week or this weekend or you're going to leave the impression that you've just been left without a chair when the music stopped.
Actions or in this case inactions speak louder than words
I am trying to trust that Orsini has this well in hand, though.