Y'all see what happens here, right? 100% of Vic's posts in this thread have been about the football coaching hire, so the thread changes to be a discussion about the coaching hire.
This isn't about the coaching hire, this is about the overall engagement with those who pay the bills (us, the community).
I beg your pardon. My post should say overall ticket sales, not just season ticket sales. ALL ticket sales have been on a downward trajectory since 2014 except for Napier's last year. So when our AD tells you, "We were number 16 in the country and nobody came," see it for what it is. Either willful denial of the truth or gross misinterpretation of the data.
That mindset always makes me smirk.
1. The numbers were up.
2. They just weren’t up like they wanted them to be. Why was that? Because they did half the job and wanted all the results. Put a winner on the field and coupled it with the worst game day experience in our program’s history. Then resents the community because they watched our best days from their couch.
The "splash hire" angle is not relevant here.
It is fair to say that the hiring of CMD caused a letdown in the fan base. It was not because CMD wasn't a splash hire. It is because CMD wasn't as qualified as countless, higher profile candidates who were themselves not really splash hires either.
We didn't need a splash hire big name to keep momentum going in the fan base. We just needed someone hired that that ticked all the boxes of a known, up and coming coach.
Having said that, this is no excuse to quit supporting the program. I get being upset for a while, but sooner or later, reality should have dictated that CMD is one of our own and let's circle the pirogues.
The fact that this hasn't happened yet is a shame on our community and the cULture. We should be better than this.
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