Quote Originally Posted by MarketingBully01 View Post
Basically, what it all comes down to is we needed an AD to make this hire that wouldn't take no for an answer like Jay Jacobs did at Auburn. You sell the program to the coach and make the coach believe in your vision and what you will do to make them successful. I wish to heck that Byrne would have made that hire in basketball and Byrne would have fought for us in the Cam Newton situation.

Stricklin has made us look like fools twice but my biggest disappointment with him is he didn't identify his top target go after that target and do whatever it took to get the job done. We made a huge mistake when we went with Loafers. He is more like LT then he is Greg Byrne. For the life of me, I don't understand why we didn't hire Joe Dean, Jr. As the AD. We would be much more relevant in basketball I will tell you that. Saying that Ray was "Stricklin's guy" from the start is the biggest sack of bull shit I have ever seen.
Who says we can't just go hire Joe Dean Jr. right now? Bet he's pissed about our basketball program.