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[QUOTE="kingtidge, post: 5368819, member: 994"]
We will certainly see if these efforts bare fruit or are just smoke and mirrors lacking real teeth. I hope it's meaningful change, of course.

If JW tried to go outside the program, he would have been fired.

He did what he was told by the decision makers above his pay garde - make it a loyalty hire and forgo a national search.

The Athletic Department has been used by the university as a cash cow for a long time and we're now in a changing world where that revenue needs to be fully or mostly re-invested back into the main sports to be competitive.

From the outside loooking in, it seems the administration is having a hard time with this new reality. They liked the teet of AD revenue and their ability to reallocate significant portions of that revenue to elsewhere in the university. They do not want that stream to dry up.

Also, the power dynamic with BOT and old guard supporters has negatively effected how the program is run. That is a big problem.

All schools deal with this to some degree, but its gotten to dysfunctional levels at SU and a lot of the decisions made look highly questionable with a long chain of missteps and bad decisions in succession.

What good decisions do we make?

How "serious" are we?

Do we make hard, positive decisions that really move the program forward or serial, poor half-measures that we try and PR-spin as meaningful change when it's not and/or move the goalposts when the results of those bad decisions come up woefully short??

The school seems much more focused on the latter than the former, hence why many feel the program suffers from serial poor decision making and mismanagement and why the program is unserious.

It's not like the evidence of all this isn't staring us in the face at this point.
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