Quote Originally Posted by Will James View Post
1. He had to be walked back from the DNF facelift.

2. Football gameday atmosphere problems not taken care of

3. Rick Ray hire

4. Apologizing for scheduling

5. Compliance problems. A powerful AD should have the pull to drop an old PE coach, no matter the flow chart.

Softball and Women's hoops are a blip on the radar. Meaningless when comparing the big 3.
1. He almost screwed that up, but I have to give him credit for not being hard headed and listening and for now going forward and doing the right thing. It takes years to build a stadium, and we are only in the beginning phases. The baseball stadium issue is complicated by the lifetime seating licenses and the LFL. My guess is those two things were big reasons why he wanted to just renovate what we had to start with.

2. If he pulled the ads, it would have been a financial disaster for us. If I buy an ad for 100K for Todd4State baseball bats to be shown on the jumbotron and then they decide after much complaining about the large amount of ads from fans to pull my ad- MSU is going to owe me some money. And every other business that has ads on the jumbotron. It sucks that we all had to sit through that this year, but I understand why they weren't pulled other than that Hardee's ad with AJ McCarron's girlfriend. If it isn't better next year, then I will complain. I heard Slive wasn't real happy with the AdTron either.

3. We'll see how the Ray hire plays out. I bet our team improves as the year goes along. Maybe he could have done better there. I'm expecting 15-15 this year and then maybe the NIT next year.

4. That was a dumb PR move on his part even if it was a mistake and his fault.

5. Agree totally.