(05-09-2016 10:36 AM)PickwickTiger Wrote:  

(05-06-2016 10:41 AM)snowtiger Wrote:  I've been trying, but I can't think of anything more time wasting than coaches hobnobbing with HH.

Let the AD carouse and blow steam with that group. Just separate the party boys from the nonpartyboas, so that the gossip doesn't back up like a sewer line.

I have always though what the HH did was incredible and starting back when they did was actually game breaking and revolutionary. The other side of the coin is exactly what you said, Head Coaches having to attend weekly meetings has to be a pain in the butt. Especially if you can imagine the amount of stupid questions they get from the group.

I was at a meeting where Stobart spoke, we had just had a QB transfer to Southern Mississippi, he was not any good here or there in the end but one older gentleman after he transferred asked Stobart this question...

"What are we going to do now when we play Southern? We lost this player, what is your plan?" Stobart looked at him and in bewilderment said something like "we aren't going to do anything more than we would do before he transferred, I doubt he will get any playing time anyway at USM" The guy would then not give up, he stayed standing and asking the same question insisting Stobart give him an answer he was looking for I guess and Stobard would not, the crowd had to shout the idiot down. This is when the HH meeting was held off of Mt. Moriah by what was then the Loft Restaurant in that hotel next to it.

The best meeting I went to was when Joe Lee was hired the first time as DC, we were about halfway through the first season and someone asked him why we were not winning more etc that year and was he surprised. His reply was classic JLD "Most of the teams we play, their guys are much bigger and must faster at this point, we can scheme some things to help but we have to get bigger and faster guys".