re: MUCH better than Byrne's Wednesday Weekly!

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Blame the idiots that negotiated byrnes contract. They loaded it to benefit everything but football. He looked at it as a means to fund his 75k bonuses for championships in all the other sports. I'm still pissed that he was against the SEC move. It seemed like he had himself in mind the whole time as opposed to the good of the university. Let's face it, football is the single biggest recruitment tool for undergrads a university can have.

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No one ever mentions the realationships he formed with boosters that gave us possibly the nicest baseball facility in the country, and the boosters adored him so much they demanded they name part of the building after him. I think he was opposed to the SEC move initially, but once the LHN was underway he knew the benefit and was for it, his personal email that have been posted numerous verified as such.

Football is a great recruitment tool, which is why the football program is the least influenced by the AD of any sport. The ADs don't even hire the head coaches, including Byrne.