The Reality

[PonyKai]

Regarding Mr. Hart's interview...

I sort of feel like some of us are trying to imagine problems that aren't there. There appears to be zero existential threat to a competitive and high level revenue program. No one is publicly clamoring to shutter or de-emphasize the revenue sports. We are headed to the Big East. The administration was proactive in pursuing that. No one on the faculty seems to be whining, and no one has head from our mascot Spanish professor in years.

Even if Turner is committed to eternal don't rock the boat mediocrity, who cares? We've got June Jones "with that mindset." There are worse predicaments to be in. Who cares if Hart is Turner's puppet? RGT will sail the SMU ship through the Centennial, and then he'll likely retire. Then the head coaches, and the AD will have to answer to someone new. There are a lot of guys writing large checks that want, and hope for a very successful athletic program. I seriously doubt Turner jets off to retirement and A. Kenneth Pye is resurrected. 20 years ago, to the layman trustee or University figurehead, high-level revenue athletics weren't so easily recognized as essential. There was less exposure, less television, fewer dollars, fewer bowls, stable conferences, regional rivalries, and less to grab out of the pot. I'm pretty confident that Smoo has recognized that, albeit not as quickly or as competently as TCU did, and they're reaping the benefits of it.

SO was a forceful AD who pushed to make things happen, and by some accounts, that seriously damaged important relationships. He's gone, and we're better off now than when he started. Hart wasn't brought in to change the world, at least not right now. That was pretty evident with June returning, Larry Brown being hired, AND Larry Brown's replacement being hired. The guy doesn't have to do anything. Market, generate revenue, get people in the stands, build crap that looks shiny, get Nike to give us cool bling, don't let dumb kids fail out of school or get arrested. Make sure kids pay their hookers.

The problem we don't have to imagine is that a 2.75 million-per-year offensive genius and QB guru is almost 60 games into his tenure, and he can't develop a QB to save his life, and his offense is, quite frankly, offensive, and we're getting whipped like stepchildren by schools that were peers for 70+ years. All that sh*t needs to change starting this Saturday.

[gostangs]

Awesome post

[mr. pony]

Regarding Mr. Hart's interview...

I sort of feel like some of us are trying to imagine problems that aren't there. There appears to be zero existential threat to a competitive and high level revenue program. No one is publicly clamoring to shutter or de-emphasize the revenue sports. We are headed to the Big East. The administration was proactive in pursuing that. No one on the faculty seems to be whining, and no one has head from our mascot Spanish professor in years.

Even if Turner is committed to eternal don't rock the boat mediocrity, who cares? We've got June Jones "with that mindset." There are worse predicaments to be in. Who cares if Hart is Turner's puppet? RGT will sail the SMU ship through the Centennial, and then he'll likely retire. Then the head coaches, and the AD will have to answer to someone new. There are a lot of guys writing large checks that want, and hope for a very successful athletic program. I seriously doubt Turner jets off to retirement and A. Kenneth Pye is resurrected. 20 years ago, to the layman trustee or University figurehead, high-level revenue athletics weren't so easily recognized as essential. There was less exposure, less television, fewer dollars, fewer bowls, stable conferences, regional rivalries, and less to grab out of the pot. I'm pretty confident that Smoo has recognized that, albeit not as quickly or as competently as TCU did, and they're reaping the benefits of it.

SO was a forceful AD who pushed to make things happen, and by some accounts, that seriously damaged important relationships. He's gone, and we're better off now than when he started. Hart wasn't brought in to change the world, at least not right now. That was pretty evident with June returning, Larry Brown being hired, AND Larry Brown's replacement being hired. The guy doesn't have to do anything. Market, generate revenue, get people in the stands, build crap that looks shiny, get Nike to give us cool bling, don't let dumb kids fail out of school or get arrested. Make sure kids pay their hookers.

The problem we don't have to imagine is that a 2.75 million-per-year offensive genius and QB guru is almost 60 games into his tenure, and he can't develop a QB to save his life, and his offense is, quite frankly, offensive, and we're getting whipped like stepchildren by schools that were peers for 70+ years. All that sh*t needs to change starting this Saturday.

It won't.