New Ask The AD

[DanScott]

Recording Tuesday… Leave your questions below. And try to make them things we haven't addressed before.

[RaleighDin]

Recording Tuesday… Leave your questions below. And try to make them things we haven't addressed before.

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?

ETSU's AD recently voiced displeasure over the in-conference transfer rules for the SoCon - what is the process for getting something like that changed?

There are a lot of numbers floating around about how much NIL P5/6 conferences pay for starting caliber basketball players in the transfer portal. Tampering concerns aside, have you run across any of this directly and are the numbers accurate or smaller than what is put out in the media?

[apaladin]

Our last scheduled FBS game is only 2 years away. Most SoCon schools have FBS games out further than 2026 with 3 having FBS games out to 2031. Any news?

[FurmanFan23]

1) News on games becoming CLPS?

2) How is Furman proactive in trying to retain athletes under NIL

3) News on adding new graduate programs in an attempt to persuade athletes to stay?

[Davemeister]

A 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?

[Sad Din]

whats the vision for WLAX?

Goals and expectations
Coaching
Facilities
Scholies
Etc

[FUBeAR]

A 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?

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 …

¯\_(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.

[FurmAlum]

A 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.

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

[FUBeAR]

A 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?

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 …

¯\_(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.

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…

Bottom Line - He pretty much sounded like this guy on both podcasts… Is Dennis Hopper ETSU’s AD?

[AllTimeFU]

Has the athletic department contemplated or taken any actions in regards to additional medical screening of the athletes , training of the staff or new equipment available during athletic events?

[Afurmanfan]

Now 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.

[FurmanFan23]

A 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.

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

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.

[apaladin]

Haven’t there been recent players who transferred from one SoCon school to another?

[Affirm]

Now 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.

To counterbalance Afurmanfan’s suggestion, ask this question:
“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?”

[FUBeAR]

Now 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.

To counterbalance Afurmanfan’s suggestion, ask this question:
“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?”

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.