Request For Mustang Club Q & A w/ Hart and RGT
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2014 3:08 pmI was talking about this idea with a fellow MC member last week and I think its something that those of us who are outside the $200K/year donation bracket would at least like to be involved in to show us that we do indeed care about all of our MC members regardless of how much money you give to the program.
If I have one major complaint with this leadership its that it seems to simply take things lying down. RGT allowed June to return after the ASU disaster. Hart has been incredibly passive in response to June's post-resignation comments regarding academic and administrative support, recruiting, fans, etc. I see no real organized effort to combat this either in the media or within the university. It only adds fuel to the fire that no coach can win at SMU and June is getting it out there to anyone who will listen so that he can manipulate himself into another job.
I would ask that if there is a way to get this done then it needs to be done. I do believe that we MC members are due some sort of explanation for what has happened over these last few years. What once had so much promise has now left us in arguably the worst position we've been in since the Death Penalty. I need to hear from my university that it has a plan and will hold itself and its programs accountable to a standard of excellence. So far I've seen a university that is more than content with mediocrity. Why should I continue to invest my time, energy, passion, and money into something that has no real plan and has no desire to be great?
Again, I'm certainly not in the $200K donation crowd, but I am a MC member since graduation. I want to believe that SMU views me as important and that I'm not just a faceless number that gets a call twice a year for donations. I want to believe that if enough of us are united in wanting to get some real answers to some of these questions we've had for so long (academics, IPF, facilities, recruiting, etc.) that we might actually get an answer. That shouldn't require a $200K donation. So I ask, SID or anyone else who would be interested in organizing something along these lines .....is there any chance of this actually happening?
If I have one major complaint with this leadership its that it seems to simply take things lying down. RGT allowed June to return after the ASU disaster. Hart has been incredibly passive in response to June's post-resignation comments regarding academic and administrative support, recruiting, fans, etc. I see no real organized effort to combat this either in the media or within the university. It only adds fuel to the fire that no coach can win at SMU and June is getting it out there to anyone who will listen so that he can manipulate himself into another job.
I would ask that if there is a way to get this done then it needs to be done. I do believe that we MC members are due some sort of explanation for what has happened over these last few years. What once had so much promise has now left us in arguably the worst position we've been in since the Death Penalty. I need to hear from my university that it has a plan and will hold itself and its programs accountable to a standard of excellence. So far I've seen a university that is more than content with mediocrity. Why should I continue to invest my time, energy, passion, and money into something that has no real plan and has no desire to be great?
Again, I'm certainly not in the $200K donation crowd, but I am a MC member since graduation. I want to believe that SMU views me as important and that I'm not just a faceless number that gets a call twice a year for donations. I want to believe that if enough of us are united in wanting to get some real answers to some of these questions we've had for so long (academics, IPF, facilities, recruiting, etc.) that we might actually get an answer. That shouldn't require a $200K donation. So I ask, SID or anyone else who would be interested in organizing something along these lines .....is there any chance of this actually happening?
