(05-27-2014 02:57 PM)OsageJ Wrote:  

(05-27-2014 02:54 PM)slycat Wrote:  

(05-27-2014 11:31 AM)southern edumacation Wrote:  

(05-27-2014 08:37 AM)slycat Wrote:  Biggest fail is how apathetic our AD is. When you compare his passion to taht of UTSAs you really get a sense of why or donantions and attendance is good but not as high as some expect. You can tell this wasn't a part of his plan while being AD but his hand was forced by the students. If we could do one thing diferent it would have been to have an AD in place with the same passion as the student base that voted to pursue FBS football.

This was the case for us as well. We had a President who spent 10 years growing the academic side and not touching the athletic side (which is great for the academic side) and an AD who was basically hired to make the budget get in the black.

Both did a great job at what they were doing but the AD pissed off entire conferences and fans when discussions of FBS came up.

Once we got a new president on board we had a student vote for an FBS move. The old AD was basically pushed out of the way. He "retired" about two years ago. Now our new AD is younger and hungry. He's making lots of changes (that seem to be for the better, not just for change sake). I don't know how long he'll be AD at Georgia Southern but he's working to make this move successful so he can jump to a bigger school in a few years.

At least you got a new AD. We still have a President focused on academics (which is good) and the same AD who makes it seem like this is all a burden. Who knows maybe he is excited and working hard everyday but the public image hes created sure doesn't seem that way.

Makes me grateful for the guy we have. The only thing I can ask for improvement from him is I hope this football hire is a little better than last year's.

You have had a pretty good track record.
Guess if you hire one a year though eventually the wrong
one will get hired.

SEE GaSt...dont do that.....ever.