Some Guy’s Exit Interview with Susan Herbst

[whaler11]

Fits here as well as anywhere...

Ticket price cuts are at least a start for Gophers AD Mark Coyle

>>Teams in all sports nationally, pro and college, are grappling with declining attendance. The Gophers face a double whammy because they share a market with six major pro teams. The competition for fan and corporate dollars is intense.

Gophers football last season had its lowest average attendance since 1992. Attendance for men’s hockey is a fraction of what it once was, in part because of exorbitant ticket prices. Men’s basketball rarely reaches capacity anymore.

The best solution, of course, is for teams to win consistently and contend for championships. But Coyle understands that he can’t sit and wait for that to happen, or simply hope fans will show up without giving them incentives.<<

I guess the Minnesota MLS entry is hot - what the heck is the 6th major pro team?

The Lynx? Is there any excuse they won’t grab?

 

[CL82]

I actually find the Diaco era humorous. No anger - but I do get annoyed by the Herbst apologists. She signed off on two Bob Diaco contracts and wants to blame the stadium. I mean come on.

Tough to find much fault in the first Bob Diaco signing. He was the hot choice available at the time part of the resurgence of the Notre Dame program and the Broyles award winner.

You pull the trigger on that gate 10 times out of 10. It was only after he was hired by UConn that the Peter principle raised its ugly head.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

This isn’t a mind-bender. This is bad leaders hiring the worst coaches in the country.

Paul Pasqauloni - his players quit on the field so bad that UConn - yes UConn- was forced to fire their football coach in SEPTEMBER.

Bob Diaco - I’m sure there is someone worse who has been an FBS coach - but I’d love to hear his name. He was so bad I asked to be banned from this website after his first game. I’m not sure anyone can ever top the debacle of when he started Donovin Williams against Temple. The players should have refused to take field.

Randy Edsall Redux. Much respect for Edsall on his first stint and how he handed Jasper’s murder - but nobody who has any interest in playing football hires Randy Edsall in 2017 while handing him a shoestring budget. He was 15 years behind the game when Maryland destroyed their program. He’s going to hand the ball to his running backs 40 times a game in 2019, and lose 10 games by an average of 25 points.

ITS NOT WHERE THE STADIUM IS - ITS CLUELESS LEADERSHIP WHO BUSTED THE BUDGET AND CANT MAKE A GOOD HIRE.

Randy is so proud of being “old school” he would rather die on his cross than accept the fact dying on your cross went out of style 2000 years ago. Poor choice of words for today probably.

 

[whaler11]

Tough to find much fault in the first Bob Diaco signing. He was the hot choice available at the time part of the resurgence of the Notre Dame program and the Broyles award winner.

You pull the trigger on that gate 10 times out of 10. It was only after he was hired by UConn that the Peter principle raised its ugly head.

Sure if they weren’t allowed to meet the candidates he is a solid hire.

His lies on the t’eo situation didn’t come to light until after he was hired I believe - but his performance in the presser was worse than anything Ollie did. They should have fired him for cause for his ridiculous lies prior to being hired - he misrepresented himself as someone who could be trusted with the program.

 

[CL82]

Other that in the interview process you meet him.

Sure if they weren’t allowed to meet the candidates he is a solid hire.

Good point. In an interview does he come across as a high-energy eccentric guy or his bat sheet crazy? I guess the former.

 

[JMick]

Sure if they weren’t allowed to meet the candidates he is a solid hire.

His lies on the t’eo situation didn’t come to light until after he was hired I believe - but his performance in the presser was worse than anything Ollie did. They should have fired him for cause for his ridiculous lies prior to being hired - he misrepresented himself as someone who could be trusted with the program.

Susan signing off on that hire cements her legacy just as much as the realignment fiasco. He's legitimately a crazy person

 

[whaler11]

Good point. In an interview does he come across as a high-energy eccentric guy or his bat sheet crazy? I guess the former.

If you are capable of telling the difference... the latter. If only BC jumped on that grenade.

 

[hardcorehusky]

Tough to find much fault in the first Bob Diaco signing. He was the hot choice available at the time part of the resurgence of the Notre Dame program and the Broyles award winner.

You pull the trigger on that gate 10 times out of 10. It was only after he was hired by UConn that the Peter principle raised its ugly head.

All it took was 30 seconds to talk to the fool and you could see he was crazy. And not in a good way. Even BC shied away from him. Think about that one for a minute.

 

[whaler11]

Susan signing off on that hire cements her legacy just as much as the realignment fiasco. He's legitimately a crazy person

It would be great if @bigred undeleted my posts from the BYU game.

I called for his firing between the first and second quarter.

Find someone worse. I dare you.

 

[hardcorehusky]

Susan signing off on that hire cements her legacy just as much as the realignment fiasco. He's legitimately a crazy person

I don't want my school president picking the football coach. She should sign off on the ad recommendation.

 

[superjohn]

Watch "The Best... I Mean WORST of Bob Diaco at UConn" on YouTube

 

[whaler11]

I don't want my school president picking the football coach. She should sign off on the ad recommendation.

I’d rather pull a name from a hat over our recent decision makers.

The criteria for being in this hat: will you not make RED (@Guapo ) a team color.

 

[whaler11]

Watch "The Best... I Mean WORST of Bob Diaco at UConn" on YouTube

We did energy buckets at work 8 years before this.

People would come to meetings and talk aloud how the outcome impacted their energy bucket.

They hired this man to a 7 figure job. Later Warde Manuel moved onto giving free tickets to Michigan games on the side of soda bottles.

Make sure to send a donation this year.

 

[superjohn]

We did energy buckets at work 8 years before this.

People would come to meetings and talk aloud how the outcome impacted their energy bucket.

They hired this man to a 7 figure job. Later Warde Manuel moved onto giving free tickets to Michigan games on the side of soda bottles.

Make sure to send a donation this year.

He couldn't even dress himself for games...

 

[whaler11]

Watch "The Best... I Mean WORST of Bob Diaco at UConn" on YouTube

Well if you wonder why UConn gets treated like a punk by the AAC... no need.

 

[whaler11]

Rock Star Stuff

Michigan AD: 'Wrong decision' to hire former USA Gymnastics executive linked to Nassar case

It makes the Ollie and Diaco hires look solid gold.

He had to fire some in three days after doing his ‘due-diligence’. Let me hear some more excuses for SuzieLaz. She thinks that clown is a ROCK STAR.

 

[JMick]

Rock Star Stuff

Michigan AD: 'Wrong decision' to hire former USA Gymnastics executive linked to Nassar case

It makes the Ollie and Diaco hires look solid gold.

He had to fire some in three days after doing his ‘due-diligence’. Let me hear some more excuses for SuzieLaz. She thinks that clown is a ROCK STAR.

Has anyone ever sincerely called someone a rock star before? It's like the cheapest way to compliment someone without touching upon a single redeemable quality

 

[whaler11]

Has anyone ever sincerely called someone a rock star before? It's like the cheapest way to compliment someone without touching upon a single redeemable quality

Winners are the winningest winners who ever winned.

Why don’t we have a lacrosse team after ten years of me being in charge?

I’m just a dumb message board poster but I’d guess it’s the $42 million subsidy.

What grifter convinced these clowns to build the hockey rinky dink. Oh we stink at football let’s build a half arena for a hockey team we can’t afford.

 

[lange10]

No. Go, and attend, or don't go. Shuttling students back and forth to tailgate isn't a good use of AD funds.

Vast majority of the busses headed back prior the start of the game are rented by fraternities. UConn busses, run by SUBOG, don’t start heading back until halftime at the earliest.

 

[UConnNick]

Herbst needed to hire an AD with MAJOR college AD experience when she hired Manuel. He had a few years at an up-and-coming, but decidedly mid-major school. Her focus was all on academics, not athletics. His only real claim to fame up to that point in his career was hiring Turner Gill as HC at Buffalo. He was in way over his head from day one at UCONN, running a major conference athletics program.

We are still reeling from the results of hiring this clown, who thought that sitting on his ass in the Virgin Islands "monitoring" the situation was the way we were going to get invited to join a real conference. Judging from his latest hiring fiasco at Michigan, he still doesn't get it. Sorry to the Herbst apologists, but that hire is all on her.

 

[kemba]

This is completely backwards.

Current students don't care about football? While student attendance is down across the country, so is *all* attendance. Moving it on campus incentivizes more people to come because the event is right there in front of them and they can see the people there, the tailgating, the stadium, the cars pouring into campus. It's easy to get the ones onboard who didn't know they'd enjoy it.

Current students are the ones who become lifelong fans of college sports because it's their alma mater, they build the connection to the school and the program they followed as students. This model has proven successful at every major athletic school.

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Except that for the first 10 years of the stadium student attendance was not a problem at all, the student section sold out every year. Where are those students now? And now the busses are packed with students to tailgate and then go home.

More alumni will buy tickets if the team gets good again and the games are actually fun to go to again.