Eaglebird Humperdink wrote:I'm saying there are 2 things you can do to f-up the football season. One was in place before the AD got settled into his office:
1. Schedule full of non-marquee C-USA teams playing at the rock, and throw in a SWAC team for good measure.
2. Lose some of those games.
What I'm saying is that you can put anyone in the AD's office, and it's pretty much out of his hands until it's time to hire a head coach.
I agree 100% that our home schedule is full of garbage teams that just turn people off.
I like playing a SWAC team at home every year. They bring fans, bring a band, and generally make the stadium a more lively place. And they lose. I went to the Southern game. It was fun.
As for the "lose some of those games" part, I don't agree that the AD has no influence there. Look at the Kentucky game: I was depressed before Kentucky even scored a TD by the way the crowd and stadium looked. It was a shock and an embarrassment. Our stadium looks like shit empty.
Our team has performed very poorly at home. I see a connection between that and the fact that Gilbert has absolutely killed anything resembling an atmosphere at M.M. Roberts with his ticket pricing schemes.
I said it before: that Kentucky game should have been a party. There should have been 30,000+ there even if Gilbert had to round people up with vans stocked with barbecue, Donna Brazile-style. The players would have responded to that, and we might even have won and made some new fans. Instead we got "the all-time greatest night for nacho revenue since 2011."
The game was a spectacular failure on Gilbert's part.
Also- fixed the damned speakers. You don't have the money? Fire someone. I guarantee there's someone on staff who's less important than having a functional sound system.