POLL: Rate the hire - Jim Harris

[Just1More]

Like a Cajun Shiva?

We can sing Hava Na-Guidry when it's over.

You know anybody who can do The Bottle Dance?

Acadiana High did a pretty good job of it back in the day. LOL

[BirdofParadise]

gooooooooo wreckarams

[VObserver]

Hale's name is brought up in this specific instance because his resume and history is known, and in the opinion of many here is better than that of Harris.

The question is not whether those who supported Hale will support Harris. Virtually all have stated they will.

The question is whether the RCAF belongs to T-Joe and a few rich guys, or does it, as we have been being promised for several years, belong to the entire body of RCAF donors.

The outcome of this particular hire is relevant only because the process by which it was done is not congruent with what a very large group of mid level donors were told it would be.

[Zeebart21]

Hale's name is brought up in this specific instance because his resume and history is known, and in the opinion of many here is better than that of Harris.

The question is not whether those who supported Hale will support Harris. Virtually all have stated they will.

The question is whether the RCAF belongs to T-Joe and a few rich guys, or does it, as we have been being promised for several years, belong to the entire body of RCAF donors.

The outcome of this particular hire is relevant only because the process by which it was done is not congruent with what a very large group of mid level donors were told it would be.

Wasnt it stated somewhere that we were insignificant?

Z

[LaCajunsFan]

That's harder info to come by.

In post #139 you claim that Robert is giving at the 'scholarship' level. I've searched for it but couldn't find that level anywhere on the taf site, so I was wondering if you could tell us how much that equals to, and where/how you obtained access to that info. Thanks.

[VObserver]

No, I said he was a 'Founding Donor' of the TAF scholarship endowment. I found it in a news release on the lsuforever pages. That site did not give an amount.

Google is your friend.

[zephyr]

I'm not saying that at all. I'm saying that the average joe who donates to the RCAF is voiceless and the process was bogus. Jim Harris will be successful because we never had any outside funding arm until a few years ago. But to sit here and say that this was a process that was meant to hire the best candidate then it failed.

I also prefer to have Cajun first fans as sitting board numbers. Not John Bordelon as the chair of RCAF and spent his Saturday's in Baton Rouge or Robert Daigle who has given at the scholarship level to TAF.

I am not in a position to give $5 million for stadium improvements, but I've spent my blood, sweat and tears as an athlete here. The direction of this university is still aimless under this leadership.

John Bordelon's season tickets at UL are right behind mine. See him at just about every game. Actually, Robert Daigle's are not far from me as well and I do see him, it seems, at most games but I don't take roll call either.

[GeauxCajuns]

No, I said he was a 'Founding Donor' of the TAF scholarship endowment. I found it in a news release on the lsuforever pages. That site did not give an amount.

Google is your friend.

i wish they were more transparent!

i kid, i kid

[VObserver]

John Bordelon's season tickets at UL are right behind mine. See him at just about every game. Actually, Robert Daigle's are not far from me as well and I do see him, it seems, at most games but I don't take roll call either.

I am sure both of them come to games when there is no conflict with lsu at home, and may come to most, even where there is conflict.

I know I see Bordelon fairly often; Daigle I have not noticed, but that really does not mean he isn't there.

[cajunhawk]

I wonder how long it will be before anyone can make points without bringing up Steve Hale's name. (Although you named him here, I"m not talking about you.)

The process has been completed. We have a hire.

So many on this board have said they'll support whoever was hired because they want UL to succeed.

Yet it's very difficult for them to make a point without bringing up Steve Hale.

It makes me wonder just how much they truly want to move on.

Steve Hale's name has more to do with the actual process of the hire than with Harris. And you have to know that with all the posting you have been doing here over the past two weeks.

Why move on? Why stop caring? Why accept what we are given? Over the course of history...many opportunities would be lost if more people would just face facts and take what they are given. We wouldn't have a vaccine for Polio. We wouldn't have gone to the moon. Etc., etc., etc. What you are intimating is that we are making this all about Steve Hale...and taking a giant ____ on Jim Harris. Far from truth. Instead we still want to hold the administration accountable for a shady, cloak and dagger process that, just like you agreed with, should have interviewed a very good candidate for ED of the RCAF.

[duggie85]

Steve Hale's name has more to do with the actual process of the hire than with Harris. And you have to know that with all the posting you have been doing here over the past two weeks.

Why move on? Why stop caring? Why accept what we are given? Over the course of history...many opportunities would be lost if more people would just face facts and take what they are given. We wouldn't have a vaccine for Polio. We wouldn't have gone to the moon. Etc., etc., etc. What you are intimating is that we are making this all about Steve Hale...and taking a giant ____ on Jim Harris. Far from truth. Instead we still want to hold the administration accountable for a shady, cloak and dagger process that, just like you agreed with, should have interviewed a very good candidate for ED of the RCAF.

Why are we only holding the administration accountable for the process? What about the board members who know of this "shady, cloak and dagger process" that aren't saying anything publicly? Why do they get a free pass for not speaking up?

[cajunhawk]

Why are we only holding the administration accountable for the process? What about the board members who know of this "shady, cloak and dagger process" that aren't saying anything publicly? Why do they get a free pass for not speaking up?

Who appointed the members?