New Ask The AD
PostPosted:Fri Mar 15, 2024 7:53 am
Recording Tuesday… Leave your questions below. And try to make them things we haven't addressed before.
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Expectations have been raised for the basketball program, which is good, but success can be equally hard to deal with as failure. What has your advice been to CBR on how to deal with this year on the heels of last year?
Not “allegedly” - https://soundcloud.com/sandos-and-the- ... pisode-106 - he said it…but he said it 3 months ago…as part of an odd interview when he sounded like he should have been in a hospital unit getting respiratory therapy. Perhaps the NyQuil had fully kicked in. FUBeAR opined about this rambling rasping rant here previously. Not sure why Chatt’s beat writer, Gene Henley, found this so “newsworthy” on 3/14 …that he posted on X without any context …Davemeister wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 11:37 amA Southern Conference AD allegedly made this statement:
"There are issues in the Southern Conference that we're not thrilled with, to be perfectly honest. We want to be proactive; we want to be forward thinking and the Southern Conference is very much stuck in the past. The private schools do not want change; they want to operate like they did 25 years ago.
"The Southern Conference is the only conference that doesn't allow interconference transfers because 'Well, we've never allowed them in the past; why should we allow them now?' That's the mentality we deal with on a daily basis."
What is Furman's position on this issue? Is a confrontation shaping up between the SoCon's private and public schools?
If the quote "the private schools do not want change, they want to operate like they did 25 years ago" means that it was easier 25 years ago to to keep schools from lying, cheating, and stealing, then I'm all for it.Davemeister wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 11:37 amA Southern Conference AD allegedly made this statement:
"There are issues in the Southern Conference that we're not thrilled with, to be perfectly honest. We want to be proactive; we want to be forward thinking and the Southern Conference is very much stuck in the past. The private schools do not want change; they want to operate like they did 25 years ago.
"The Southern Conference is the only conference that doesn't allow interconference transfers because 'Well, we've never allowed them in the past; why should we allow them now?' That's the mentality we deal with on a daily basis."
What is Furman's position on this issue? Is a confrontation shaping up between the SoCon's private and public schools?
Sorry - FUBeAR was wrong. The ETSU AD did appear again recently on the same podcast and do similar whining (and snot bubbling) as he had done 3 months ago…FUBeAR wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 6:37 pmNot “allegedly” - https://soundcloud.com/sandos-and-the- ... pisode-106 - he said it…but he said it 3 months ago…as part of an odd interview when he sounded like he should have been in a hospital unit getting respiratory therapy. Perhaps the NyQuil had fully kicked in. FUBeAR opined about this rambling rasping rant here previously. Not sure why Chatt’s beat writer, Gene Henley, found this so “newsworthy” on 3/14 …that he posted on X without any context …Davemeister wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 11:37 amA Southern Conference AD allegedly made this statement:
"There are issues in the Southern Conference that we're not thrilled with, to be perfectly honest. We want to be proactive; we want to be forward thinking and the Southern Conference is very much stuck in the past. The private schools do not want change; they want to operate like they did 25 years ago.
"The Southern Conference is the only conference that doesn't allow interconference transfers because 'Well, we've never allowed them in the past; why should we allow them now?' That's the mentality we deal with on a daily basis."
What is Furman's position on this issue? Is a confrontation shaping up between the SoCon's private and public schools?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ …. Trolling, perhaps?
Let ‘em take their Corsair back to the Atlantic Sun or to the UAC or whatever. FUBeAR has no patience for malcontents that begged to get BACK in the SoCon. Maybe focus on pumping up the league in public and working on improvements in private. … or … just keep whining thru your snot.
Agreed. I think a lot of the public schools want the transfer rule taken away to poach players from the privates. The public schools typically have a better finical backing as well.... Hopefully the rule stays in tact.FurmAlum wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 9:42 pmIf the quote "the private schools do not want change, they want to operate like they did 25 years ago" means that it was easier 25 years ago to to keep schools from lying, cheating, and stealing, then I'm all for it.Davemeister wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 11:37 amA Southern Conference AD allegedly made this statement:
"There are issues in the Southern Conference that we're not thrilled with, to be perfectly honest. We want to be proactive; we want to be forward thinking and the Southern Conference is very much stuck in the past. The private schools do not want change; they want to operate like they did 25 years ago.
"The Southern Conference is the only conference that doesn't allow interconference transfers because 'Well, we've never allowed them in the past; why should we allow them now?' That's the mentality we deal with on a daily basis."
What is Furman's position on this issue? Is a confrontation shaping up between the SoCon's private and public schools?
Do the public schools want easier transfer rules so they can steal all the private school's players because they can pay them more money?
If the public schools aren't happy they can do:
1. Leave
2. Don't come back
To counterbalance Afurmanfan’s suggestion, ask this question:Afurmanfan wrote: ↑Sat Mar 16, 2024 9:21 amNow that the school has pushed the fund raising for Timmons successfully, is the department’s next priority football or a practice facility for basketball?
It seems to me that the sport that has had the most success and also brings the most alumnae and fans on campus needs to be a priority.
35 words are clearly needed to adequately counterbalance affirm’s superfluous, in multiple ways, “counterbalance” of afurmanfan’s reasonable question. FUBeAR’s feels that it is incumbent upon him to provide such a strategically valuable and timely counterbalance.affirm wrote: ↑Sat Mar 16, 2024 12:38 pmTo counterbalance Afurmanfan’s suggestion, ask this question:Afurmanfan wrote: ↑Sat Mar 16, 2024 9:21 amNow that the school has pushed the fund raising for Timmons successfully, is the department’s next priority football or a practice facility for basketball?
It seems to me that the sport that has had the most success and also brings the most alumnae and fans on campus needs to be a priority.
“Even though the school is still working hard to raise much-needed additional funding for Timmons renovations, it seems to me that basketball still has important needs. Basketball is always going to be the sport with the greatest long-range potential for bringing strategically valuable and timely national attention to Furman. Apparently there is still the major need to add a new practice facility for our two basketball teams. Is that going to be the department’s next priority after moving the funding of Timmons renovations farther along?”