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SU Human Resource Complaint Towards Heather Lyke

Regarding HL talking to Melo and being more prominent recently than folks would like:

When I was in high school and trying out for the baseball team, the coach used to put a sheet with everyone’s name who was trying out on the gym door. As I recall he had three cuts during the process. At the point of each cut he would strike a line through the name of the player who was being cut. If your name was still there you still were in play to make the team, and after the three cuts if your name remained you made the team.

Well one guy was cut on I believe the second of the three cuts. All the players knew he should have been cut, and obviously the coach knew. The only person who didn’t know was the player. Believe it or not he actually went into the coaches office and asked if the coach made a mistake. At that point he was told something like “if there is a line through your name you’re dead to me”. Ah, the 70’s.

Well how does that relate to this situation, and what’s the moral of this rambling story? Simple, and as as my grandfather used to say “some people have opinions of themselves that exceed reality” and “some have a broken antennas”.

Sounds like people here think HK may have a little of both here. I’m going to follow Dashers advice and begin to worry if it turns out her name was not crossed off the list.
 
Willy75 said:
At this point SU could hire almost anyone other than Lyke, e.g. Reggie Terry, and the slice of the fan base represented here would be more or less happily relieved. Maybe that's the plan all along, 3D chess.
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Konrad for AD... First decree... Sell his 44 curated collection to the school for $4 mil...
 
Cusefan95 said:
I’ll ignore the rest of your comment and just focus on this particular part, because it illustrates why your complaint is based on fundamentally misunderstanding the role of the AD, the requirements of the position, and how a person in that role communicates to fans through media.

Red getting the gig because of his ties to Syracuse was highly likely. And as a result, it was a possible reason for fans to be less than enthusiastic about the hiring. That made it a huge elephant in the room that HAD TO BE addressed. And it HAD TO BE addressed in - broadly- the way Wildhack did, by actively dismissing it as a reason for his hiring. (He could have taken a slightly different approach I will cover later though). It was not an optional part of Red’s introduction, it was mandatory and Wildhack would not have been doing his job if he didn’t say that.

When you are trying to sell someone on your idea, product, or in this case coaching hire - you have to address the concerns the potential buyers have. You cannot ignore them, you cannot pretend they do not exist - you HAVE TO address them directly. It’s almost a boilerplate part of a hiring press conference in pro and college sports - the GM or AD or President will say “he’s not here because (insert reasons the organization knows fans are concerned about) - he’s here because he’s the best person for the job”.

Really, the fact that he went with such a boilerplate approach came across to me as bordering on an act of protest on his part - making sure astute fans knew their concerns were valid and he shared them. Because if he was personally sold on hiring Red, it would have incorporated his ties to Syracuse in a more positive way, something like: “Red is the best man for the job - he’s been exposed to every aspect of the sport, and his background as a player and associate head coach makes him uniquely qualified to be the head coach at Syracuse”. If I’m the AD hiring a truly highly qualified candidate who has ties to the organization - I would highlight those ties. Instead, Wildhack minimized them. Wildhack did the absolute bare minimum required here - that should have told you where he stood.

The problem is you don’t know how to interpret “press conference” speech. The result is you’re upset about something he said which you knew wasn’t true, he knew wasn’t true - and HE TOLD YOU WASN’T TRUE if you knew how to translate press conference into plain English. The comment about not being a sane complaint was unnecessary - after reading your reply I think it’s just not knowing how to digest what is said in press conferences.
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Haha. You are clearly a PR guy. Well said!
 
Scooch said:
I think it's premature to read much into Lyke being highly visible this weekend. She's clearly trying to show her face in an attempt to blunt the damage from the DO piece. You can't hide when stuff like that happens.

If Haynie is the guy that everyone says he is, the last thing he wants is a firestorm of discontent with his first big hire.
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So why not refute the allegations or explain the situation? Why would you send her out there to talk about why she should be AD?
 
FYI - there's some pretty tough posts on X(Twitter) about H.L. tonight. Probably wouldn't get by the mods here. Anyone interested with an X account search Heather Lyke and go to "Latest".
 
FloridaCuse said:
FYI - there's some pretty tough posts on X(Twitter) about H.L. tonight. Probably wouldn't get by the mods here. Anyone interested with an X account search Heather Lyke and go to "Latest".
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Click bait.

I thought some of our posters were smarter.
 
bnoro said:
Tough on her job performance? Or a bunch of misogynistic nonsense about her looks/her being a woman?

Every fanbase has them but I know ours has some folks that need to be punched in the face in real life.
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Most are along the lines of: "We better not be hiring her" but stronger. One is a very funny parody post but not appropriate to be repeated.
 
Jake said:
Haha. You are clearly a PR guy. Well said!
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I’m realizing a lot of the frustrations with Wildhack are based on things he said in press conferences or media appearances, even though most of them for the last three years (and anything related to men’s basketball for longer) were strikingly similar to hostage videos. Fran Brown’s introduction was the lone notable exception. I went back yesterday to rewatch that to see if my memory of it matched reality - Brown was so dynamic and charismatic that I couldn’t remember anything anyone else said. Wildhack was much more descriptive and made a legitimate effort to convince people Brown was the right guy even though he was never even.a coordinator. My assumption is that Wildhack successfully persuaded people to his candidate, and that he’d “won” showed in that press conference.

I’m not an insider, but could figure out that Syracuse was dysfunctional and probably getting worse just from the press conferences, press releases, and media appearances. It’s probably not a bad thing that both Kent and John are gone. Both of them clearly hate each other and couldn’t help but keep taking shots at each other to the end, as shown in their releases about Lyke. One of the most important tasks the new AD and chancellor have is - at minimum - getting the various factions that have formed at the university to “sign off” on the informal peace treaty they jointly put on the table. Hopefully in the longer term they can get everyone pushing in the same direction.
 

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