sigmo7 wrote:I don't know what a good schedule should look like for us at this stage,just feel since we are a fledgling true D1 we would be attractive to teams that THINK we would be a guaranteed win. In state next season, ODU we have played before and we are paying them 1.32 to come to us. Norfolk State nothing special. UVA is a good pick up but we were in the mix back in the DR days. I still believe that the situation UVA is in now to keep their fan base happy and become bowl eligible until they get straightened out they feel they are just buying one of their needed 6 wins. LU may very well go up there and smack em in the mouth. I would love to see that happen. I don't know enough about IM to dislike the guy, just thought his response on the coaching situation was weak. That's why I asked people to enlighten me to change my initial thoughts of him. Until reading that article I had never given a flip about who the AD at LU is.
Spent some time with him over the past year. I was in his suite for the first football game this year, spoke to one of his neighbors who has lived in L'bug for 40+ years and that was her first game. She has become a big fan because of him. Also spent some time with him at a baseball game and the LU scout day. He is reserved, quiet, dare I say maybe a bit socially awkward, but knows his stuff.
I have a lot of confidence in what he is doing and will do at LU. He has a pretty big mess to clean up, that he inherited from the previous AD, but he will get past that soon enough. His hands are tied a little bit right now because of this. He and Micky have done a great job of scheduling our football schedule.
He also strikes me as a person who is very straight forward with his staff, coaches, ect. I am sure they know what his expectations are. I am also pretty confident that there won't be any "surprise" firings, due to performance. When I was in management, I was told that if a person who worked for me gets fired, they should not be surprised by it. That is the way good management works/performs.
That is just my personal take on him, but it also reflects several comments from others, both inside and outside of the program/university. Not sure we know how fortunate we are to have him as AD. We will see, he has only been here a year.