(10-04-2016 12:24 PM)WM Beancounter Wrote: During Driscoll's tenure, here's what has happened:
1. Lights, turf, and expansion of Zable + Laycock facility
2. Hiring of Tony Shaver, hoops program has gone from a laughingstock to 4 CAA finals, 5 20-win seasons (including 3 consecutive)
3. Plumeri Park was built, baseball program has gone from laughingstock to being competitive every year, and has gone to 2 NCAA tournaments
4. Stayed in the CAA, unlike just about every other league member
5. Continued conference domination of all Olympic sports
6. Maintained student-athlete standards
7. Domination of JMU in every sport
8. Oversaw the whole mascot fiasco in a fashion that caused the least embarrassment and pissed off the fewest alumni
What other major accomplishments am I missing from the Driscoll years?
1) No re-entry at halftime of football games.
2) No post-season for men's hoops in Vegas/CIT/CBI.
3) No video boards in Wiliam and Mary Hall.
4) Lack of seriousness surrounding W&M's men's hoops was a factor in decision of Virgina schools to leave CAA.
5) Failure to read riot act to N'Eastern and Hofstra over dropping of football programs.
6) Failure to get Albany and Stony Brook into CAA in all sports.
7) Non-existent fan sports apparel.
8) Failure to emphasize W&M men's hoops history.
9) A non-existent OOC home schedule in men's hoops that requires AD leadership to fix.
Need I go on?
Do you think the $$ for the facilities come because of the AD, or in spite of the AD?
Seriously, the hoops success is due to the coach, not the AD, and the CAA is in its current condition because W&M didn't / wouldn't do some of the heavy lifting when the conference was at it's peak.
I thank the man. I wish him much health and happiness in his retirement. But let's not reinvent what's been going on.