Rate the job Scott Farmer is doing as UL AD

[Bandwagon King]

I have an idea. Why not make this an annual ritual? The man is at an institution of higher learning. Why should he get a pass from year to year when I'm sure all the students, student athletes, & coaches are expected to perform year in & year out. Let us revisit this same topic next season & every season thereafter. I think this is a rather refreshing way to keep the pressure applied where it should be. It should be applied directly to the neck so the job should never become so comfortable for Farmer that he does not feel the tines of the pitchfork in his back, or the pungent smell of the oil the crowd is ready to tar & feather him with. This should in turn keep the man amply supplied with motivation to keep the schedule nicely enhanced, the coaches nicely entreated when they perform. And quickly shown the door when they don't. Plus, keep the program moving in an ever forward continually expanding process.

[CajunDawgPound]

I would also wait to see how farmer does on the hiring when one of these coaches leave. David walker was heavily involved in both the hiring if HUD and marlin.

Which coaches has he hired?

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Track
Others?

What are those programs doing?

[CajunRage]

Which coaches has he hired?

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Track
Others?

What are those programs doing?

You have to take the extensions into consideration as well. Not as much as new hires, but it's up there. Don't assistant coaches have to be approved as well? Again, not as heavily weighted as head coach hires, but part of the job.

[Bigbuf]

I guess you shouldn't credit the hiring of the new Associate Athletic Director for External to Farmer since it obviously wasn't his decision to hire him, and it took a year after the very same board demand that he hire one. T-Joe should get all the credit since he had to step in and do his job for him!

[duggie85]

Which coaches has he hired?

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Track
Others?

What are those programs doing?

Although David Walker was AD when Husdpeth and Marlin were hired, it was known he had about 4 months left on the job. I seriously cannot imagine that David Walker was the decision maker on those hires. I have zero proof of that, but I would think that being Walker never wanted to be AD (someone correct me if I'm wrong here) anyway, he probably let Farmer take the reigns on the search being he was gonna be the AD very soon.

Just a thought, nothing else.

[CajunRage]

I guess you shouldn't credit the hiring of the new Associate Athletic Director for External to Farmer since it obviously wasn't his decision to hire him, and it took a year after the very same board demand that he hire one. T-Joe should get all the credit since he had to step in and do his job for him!

Do you know any of this for fact or are you just speculating? I honestly don't know the answer and I don't know the details surrounding the situation, but if you don't have facts to support it, you are just showing your vendetta against Farmer and nothing he ever does will change your mind.

[Bigbuf]

Do you know any of this for fact or are you just speculating? I honestly don't know the answer and I don't know the details surrounding the situation, but if you don't have facts to support it, you are just showing your vendetta against Farmer and nothing he ever does will change your mind.

Sarcasm has trouble rearing its head when you put it down on "paper"....

[CajunRage]

Sarcasm has trouble rearing its head when you put it down on "paper"....

my bad... coffee hasn't kicked in...

[Bigbuf]

my bad... coffee hasn't kicked in...

No worries...a email was sent out yesterday about the hire and it wasn't on the board yet which I find strange since the last couple of weeks people have been screaming from the rafters that this needs to get done NOW and I would figure they would at least say FINALLY they hired someone.

It almost seems like Farmer and the administration are trolling the board for ideas on what to do next (hint...just a little more sarcasm there).

[CajunRage]

No worries...a email was sent out yesterday about the hire and it wasn't on the board yet which I find strange since the last couple of weeks people have been screaming from the rafters that this needs to get done NOW and I would figure they would at least say FINALLY they hired someone.

It almost seems like Farmer and the administration are trolling the board for ideas on what to do next (hint...just a little more sarcasm there).

Yep, I got the email around 9pm last night

[Hammer58]

No worries...a email was sent out yesterday about the hire and it wasn't on the board yet which I find strange since the last couple of weeks people have been screaming from the rafters that this needs to get done NOW and I would figure they would at least say FINALLY they hired someone.

It almost seems like Farmer and the administration are trolling the board for ideas on what to do next (hint...just a little more sarcasm there).

Saw the e-mail yesterday but was unable to find a story to link to (was in Boomer mode).

Glad that they filled the position. Hopefully our marketing will improve and we will get a consistent message out.

[Bigbuf]

Saw the e-mail yesterday but was unable to find a story to link to (was in Boomer mode).

Glad that they filled the position. Hopefully our marketing will improve and we will get a consistent message out.

Sounds like the guy has done exactly what we need while he was at UH.